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Get Out And See "Get Out"

3/3/2017

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     It's Saturday afternoon, which means it's time to start thinking about a movie for Saturday night, right?
     Have you seen "Get Out" yet?  Have you heard of "Get Out" yet?
     If not, I recommend you get out to see it - soon, before everybody else has heard of it and gotten out to see it.
      Because I predict that "Get Out" is going to be the next creep-a-licious, jump-through-your skin cult classic, up there with "Wait Until Dark," "Fatal Attraction," "Pacific Heights" and probably a whole bunch of other scary movies which I haven't seen because I'm not a fan of scary movies.  I'm especially not a fan of those scary movies labeled "horror" movies because I always imagine "horror movie"  to be a synonymous with "slasher movie."
       And yet this is not always the case.  "Get out", for example, which I saw last Saturday night, is marketed as a "horror movie" and yet, as I was thankful to learn as I sat  - or I should say, shivered - through it, it was not "horror" of the "slasher" variety.
      On the other hand, the movie "Logan," which I saw last night, the latest in the series of X-Men movie sagas,

...this one about the fate of X-Man mutant Wolverine,
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...in his old, grey, post X-Men years,
...though categorized not within  the "horror" genre but rather of the "super hero" genus,  portrayed plenty of slashing.  In truth, though, what else would you expect from a movie about a fella with knives coming out of his knuckles?  But then the plethora of slashing in "Logan" hardly scared you or made you jump, as you could see each slashing episode coming a mile a away, were cheering it on, even, because every one the dozens of slashees in "Logan" was a bad guy who had it coming big-time.  Which, back to my point, didn't make the slash-ful "Logan" any kind of a horror flick.
     "Get Out," on the other hand,  though it lacked gallons of  gore, is plenty scary enough to earn its "horror" movie label,

...more catering to one's fear of the unknown, the not-understood, fear of things that go bump in the night, things that may or may not be hiding in the closet, people and things that may or may not be what they seem, wheels within wheels, the windmills in your mind,
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...all played out in the setting of a white girl who brings her black boyfriend home to meet her liberal  parents, who seem to be trying too hard to show that they're perfectly fine with their daughter dating a black  man.
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      When I saw "Get Out"  on its opening weekend in Columbus, the line at the Stoneridge Cinema in Gahanna was out the door.

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      And I'm betting, once word gets out about how good this movie is,  it'll end up  - or should end up - on everybody's "must-see" list.  Which is why I say to go see "Get Out" soon, to avoid having any of the movie's bumps,  jumps and spoilers sprung on you by everybody who got out and saw it before you did.
      One more thing I'll say about "Get Out," in fact, what really makes it such a good movie, is that woven into the scary unwinding of the story are discussion-worthy racial themes;  "Get Out" might  even be considered a twenty-first century allegory for - oh, well, I won't even go into what it might or might not be an allegory for.  Go see it and decide for yourself whether "Get Out" is the subject for a future a college course on race relations or just an ingeniously enjoyable scary movie.

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