ABSTRACT
In Chapter 5, Get Out, a film whose reviews were unanimously full of praise, features a central conflict between a white upper middle class family and a young African American man named Chris, whose first visit to his white girlfriend’s childhood home becomes a fight for survival. Throughout Chris’s visit, the audience views the house itself as a place where the father collects souvenirs in order to “experience another person’s culture.” In a more sinister moment, the audience realizes that the Armitages are also in the business of collecting African American bodies to fulfill dreams of athletic and artistic genius. Chris’s encounters with the material world remain dangerous ones; indeed, this narrative showcases the repeated unplugging of a smartphone so that Chris may not call for help. Get Out serves as a counterpoint to earlier chapters because the Armitage family as a unit has made a life out of dominating the material world and rendering it helpless. It also reminds the reader that generational labels like Generation Z fail to represent the struggles of all racial and socioeconomic groups in times of crisis.
