9 Movies That Get Better The Deeper You Go

2. Get Out

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Get Out might be one of the finest horrors of our generation for its ingenuous subject matter, but Jordan Peele opens eyes to much more than racism with the way he presents his terrifying story. Following Chris as he goes to spend time with his white girlfriend Rose and her family for the weekend, he uncovers the dark, deeply disturbing truth of the Armitage family, in that they steal the bodies of healthy black people and sell them to wealthy white minds to live through. Whilst this in itself is a suitably off the wall way of dissecting racism in modern society, Peele doesn't stop there - taking old connotations and oppressive language and spinning it into visual allegory.

The more you uncover in Get Out, the better it gets. Chris literally has to pick cotton from the confines of his chair to avoid the same fate as his peers, as well as being associated heavily with the imagery of a buck - an term for black men who refused to bow to white authority. Red and blue are pitted against each other in a mockery of the American flag, and even old tv ads are surreptitiously run for political reference. Every morsel of this movie is steeped in symbolism.

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