“Get Out” is an American crime thriller movie, released in the year 2017. The movie begins with a man named Andre, roaming on a street, who seems to be looking for some address. Probably lost, and talking with someone, he notices a car moving along with him. Andre tries to turn in the opposite direction, but after walking a few steps, he looks back at the car and finds the door of the car open. Suddenly, a man wearing a strange helmet attacks Andre, and the impact of the hit renders Andre unconscious. The man drags him into the car and drives off.
A girl named Rose is shown visiting an apartment with some pastries and coffee, which is where her photographer boyfriend Chris lives. They are discussing their trip to Rose’s parents, for which they are packing the stuff. Chris is skeptical about Rose’s parents being conformable with the fact, that Chris is a black guy. But Rose assures him that her parents are very loving, supportive and people with progressive thinking. Rose tells Chris, that he is the only black guy that she has ever dated, and her family too, doesn’t think along racist lines. Both of them begin their trip to her parent’s home, and while traveling she doesn’t even allow Chris to smoke a cigarette, as she cares for his health.
While traveling, Chris calls his friend Rod, who has taken the responsibility of taking care of his dog. Chris thanks him for this and tells him to take care of his dog’s food. Rod is not fine with Chris going to Rose’s parent’s house, as he thinks that Chris dating a white woman and visiting a white family, is not a good idea. Rose also insists to talk to Rod, and on the speaker, Rod tells her that she chose a bad guy. To make Chris feel jealous, Rose replies that she has done so, to reach Rod only, whom she likes.
Soon after, a deer comes running on the highway and hits the car, resulting in the deer’s death and the breaking of their car’s headlights and mirror. A police officer comes to their help and asks for ID of Chris. Rose takes an objection to this, as she loves Chris, and doesn’t want anyone to mess with her guy. Chris shows the ID to the officer who lets them go. Chris is happy that Rose is caring and possessive toward him.
After that, they resume their journey toward Rose’s parents’ home. On reaching there, her parents greet them both and invite them inside. Rose’s father, Dean Armitage, is a neurosurgeon and his mother Missy, is a hypnotherapist. Dean takes Chris on his home tour and showcases his possessions, and reveals that he would have surely voted for Obama, as he happened to be the best president. Dean advises Chris that if he is a smoker, Missy can surely help him in getting rid of the habit. Chris is not interested, and politely rejects the offer of curing him.
While getting himself familiar with the surroundings at Rose’s parental home, Chris notices that Armitages have kept two blacks as their helpers. Walter, is working as a groundkeeper and Georgina, is a helper inside the home. Dean senses this confusion in Chris’s mind, so he tells Chris, that he may be surprised to see two blacks being kept by the white people as helpers, but they were actually hired to take care of Dean’s parents. He further explains that after his parent’s death, he thought it would be bad to tell them to go, as they had become a part of the family. Therefore, they were retained there only and kept as helpers so that they can keep their jobs intact. Dean shows Chris his family photographs where Rose’s brother Jeremy is seen too. Dean informs Chris about the arrival of Jeremy at home soon and tells him that Jeremy is also a surgeon like him.
The family is having tea together in the afternoon when Jeremy also joins them. He gradually gets to know that Chris is Rose’s boyfriend, and so he shares her childhood secrets with Chris. Jeremy even offers to teach Chris some karate tips, but Chris replies that he has done Judo in his childhood. Jeremy tries to make fun of Chris, that with this body frame, Chris could have easily been a fighter but instead, he seems to be a docile man. Rose doesn’t like her brother’s attitude towards Chris and is surprised at his behavior. But Chris does not mind all this and says he is ok with it, as he loves Rose.
One night, Chris goes out in the open and finds Walter running towards him but suddenly turning away. Likewise, he sees Georgina staring through a window, but behaving strangely. He goes back inside, but Rose’s mother Missy invites him to sit beside her. Being a hypnotherapist, she always has a cup and a spoon with her, which she uses for her hypnotherapy activities on others. Missy continuously taps her cup with the spoon and gets Chris hypnotized.
She asks Chris about his mother’s death, to which Chris replies that this incident happened when he was 11 years old. Chris says that she died due to a hit-and-run incident when she was returning home from her work. On being asked by Missy, what he did to save her, Chris tells her that he was watching TV and didn’t do anything and he still feels guilty about it. As per him, he felt scared that calling the cops would have made it sound real, which Chris didn’t want.
He starts to scratch the arms of the chair with his nails, which he exactly did that night in his room when his mom was hit. Missy sends him into a trance, and Chris feels that he is sinking into some dark world. In the morning, Chris wakes up and thinks that he was probably dreaming in the night about all this.
Some message is sent by Rod on Chris’s cell phone, about his dog getting drunk by having a beer. The battery of his cell phone is low, so he plugs it in. Chris goes out in the morning to have some fresh air, and he again sees Georgina behaving strangely near the window. He notices Walter and approaches him to talk to him. Walter, who is cutting wooden log pieces, also behaves strangely and tells Chris that he must be feeling better now since he has been with Missy last night. Chris gets surprised about this since he thought it to be a dream only.
Chris talks to Rose about Walter’s strange behavior, and about him being hypnotized by her mother last night. Rose says that she can talk to her father about this, but Chris says that it is ok and moreover, he feels that he no more feels the urge have cigarettes after that hypnotism session.
The weekend party begins at the Armitage’s residence, where many guests start to arrive. The guests are mostly white people, and surprisingly everyone looks impressed with Chris. One of the guests seems impressed with Chris’s grip on the hand, and wonders if he plays golf. He says that he knows Tiger too, who is a golf champion. One couple seems impressed with Chris’s physique and says that he is very handsome. Another guest says that the era of white people is gone, and blacks are in fashion right now. A lady guest tells her husband, that Chris has a good body and asks Rose, whether Chris is better.
Chris feels uncomfortable with all this and leaves to take some photographs at some distance. He notices one black guy and goes to talk to him. But the guy seems to be out of place, and a cold one at that. He is taken away from there, by a white lady who is actually that person’s wife. However, Chris notices some familiarity with that man.
Actually, he is the same guy from the first scene, who was attacked and kidnapped by a guy in a car. Another blind person introduces himself as Jim Hudson and says to Chris that all these people are ignorant. He informs Chris that he is an art dealer, and is a fan of the work of Chris, and also that Chris has got a good eye. Jim has an assistant too, who assists helps in explaining the depiction of any piece of work to him. Jim says that he was also into photography, but could never make it big in that sense.
Talking to Chris, Jim further says that he has got a genetic disease, and that is why he got blind later on. Chris comes back into the house and tries to connect to his friend Rod on his cell phone. But while checking his cell phone, he finds that his phone is again unplugged and ran out of battery, which he plugs in again. He notices Georgina in the adjacent room too, which is surprising to him.
Chris discusses this with Rose, who gets a little upset with Chris and walks away from the room. Chris calls Rod and apprises him about the situation there. Chris tells Rod that as per the nature and thinking of people here, every black should be a slave to them. On getting to know that Chris was subjected to hypnotic therapy by Rose’s mother, Rod warns Chris that these people may hurt him, although Chris tells him that he doesn’t feel the need to smoke now.
Rod gets disturbed by these events and warns Chris about being there since as per him white people like to keep black guys as sex slaves. On getting to know from Chris that there are many black people there, who are behaving strangely, Rod tells Chris that surely, they too are hypnotized. Just when Chris hangs up the phone, Georgina enters the room and apologizes to Chris, for not plugging his phone back. Chris says that he is ok with it, and tells her that sometimes he feels uneasy being amongst white people.
Georgine behaves in a strange way to this and says that these people are not like that, and they treat her like their family only. She smiles in a weird way, while a tear comes from her eye. Chris goes out again, to rejoin the party where some more white people surround him. The black man whom he met some time back also joins them, and Chris tries to take his picture but with his flash on. The other guy gets paranoid as soon as the flash goes on, and he turns a violent man. Blood starts to flow out of his nose, and while pushing Chris he yells at him to get out of there.
Rose’s father tells everyone that all this happened to that man due to a brain seizure, which resulted from the flash of the camera on his face. The black guy comes out of another room, along with his wife and Missy, who claims that now the guy is fine. The black guy also apologizes to everyone, including Chris, for his weird behavior. Rose tells everyone there that she needs to go for a walk along with Chris. While away from the party, Chris tells Rose that everything is strange here, and that man doesn’t seem to have got a brain seizure, but probably is epileptic attack. Rose is confident about her father who diagnosed his disease as a seizure. Chris says that he feels like he knows that man. Chris also apprehends that Rose’s mom has done something to that black man since she hypnotized Chris also. He says to Rose that he needs to go home. Rose gets upset with this, as she asks him whether he wants to go without her.
Here, a silent auction is taking place at Armitage’s residence, where a photograph of Chris is on display. Everyone from the guest side is holding a bingo card with them. Surprisingly, the blind man Jim Hudson wins the auction, with the help of his assistant. Here Rose agrees with Chris that they need to go, and assures Chris that she will do something, to convince her parents.
When they return in the evening, everyone is mysteriously smiling at them, while going inside the house. Chris sends the picture of that black guy to Rod, who calls back and tells Chris that the guy is Andre Heyworth, who got missing some weeks ago, and who used to work at one of the movie theatres. On knowing from Chris that this guy came with a white woman to the party, Rod tells him that he has been definitely turned into a slave.
Soon after, the phone battery of Chris’s phone dies. Chris tells Rose that they need to go back immediately from there. On asking the reason, Chris tells her that he will explain that in the car. Rose agrees, and says that she will be back with her bag.
While Chris starts to pack in a hurry, he notices a closet door open. When he examines it, he finds a box containing photos of Rose with many black guys. She also had photos with Walter and Georgina, while being in close proximity to all of them. Here, it is clear to Chris that Rose has been with many black guys before too, and is cheating on him.
Rose comes to the room and sees him closing the closet. Chris tries to dodge her, by telling her that he is not able to find his camera. Rose hands him the camera which is lying there only. Chris tells Rose to move, but Rose starts to look for the keys in the bag, but she is not able to find them there. Chris asks her to keep looking for the keys, while they are on the way.
Suddenly Jeremy blocks their way, along with Missy and Dean, who appears to be in a serious mood. Jeremy tries to attack Chris with some object, but he misses it. Rose already has the keys with herself but says to Chris that she can’t hand them over to him. Chris understands by now that Rose too, is with them, and they are all working together and certainly up to something. When Jeremy challenges him, Chris tries to hit Jeremy, but Missy uses her cup and spoon and taps it three times, to hypnotize Chris who goes blank and loses his conscience.
Missy directs them to tie the legs of Chris, and take him to the basement. Here, Rod tries to connect with Chris, but his phone is not reachable and the call connects to his voicemail. He tries to get the details of Andre Heyworth from the internet and finds out that he went missing two months ago.
When Chris wakes up, he finds himself tied to a chair and in front of an old TV set, which is kept under a deer head, mounted on the wall. Suddenly there plays a video on the TV, where the dead father of Dean seems to be talking about immortality, and who says that you have been chosen since you have got the physical ability. Probably this video was made to be shown to different black people, whom they tried to abduct from time to time. Dean’s father says that they are trying to do some research on something big.
This is an old video where the entire Armitage family is seen. Here, Rod straightaway heads towards the police station to get help. He narrates the whole story to a female officer, who is not interested in his story. Some more cops join her and laugh at his slave story. Rod tries to call Chris again but Rose picks up. She tells Rod that Chris has left and that there seems to be a connection between her and Rod. Rod is surprised by the talks of Rose, who seems to be into black people.
Here, Chris wakes up to find Jim on the screen. Jim narrates to Chris that he is going to be operated upon, in which the portion of the brains between the two is going to be swapped. He wants Chris’s eyes through which Chris sees the world. He says he doesn’t care if he is black or white, and that’s why he is different than the other white racist people. Chris recollects the wooden faces of Georgina, Andre and Walter who probably have been subjected to the same procedure.
Jim tells Chris that he will continue to exist in this dark world, but only as a passenger. Chris realizes that he has torn open the cotton from the chair while scratching it due to being under stress. Suddenly, Missy appears on the TV and taps her spoon with the cup, due to which Chris is unconscious again. Here Dean prepares for the operation, cuts a portion of Jim’s brain, and further waits for Jeremy to bring Chris’s body there so that he can operate upon him too. Jeremy on reaching Chris in the basement takes off the belts from Chris’s limbs, with which he was tied to the chair.
Suddenly Chris attacks him and kills him with the help of a solid object. Here, it is revealed that Chris had stuffed the scratched cotton of the chair into his ears, to block the tapping sound of the teaspoon. When Dean goes out of the lab to look for Jeremy, Chris stuffs his chest with deer antlers and kills him too. Georgina sees Chris approaching her, but she runs away. Chris reaches upstairs, where he sees Missy, who tries to reach out for her cup and spoon. Chris smashes the cup and plate and prevents her to hypnotise Chris again. Missy tries to attack Chris with a knife, but Chris kills her with the same knife. Chris is about to open the door, but Jeremy suddenly appears, and strangulates his throat from behind, as it is obvious, that Jeremy was not killed earlier. Chris tries to open the door twice but Jeremy prevents him to do so.
Chris manages to stab Jeremy’s leg with a scissor, and then kicks him hard, thereby killing him. Chris takes the keys of the car from Jeremy’s pocket, and rushes out, to leave the place in Jeremy’s car. Here, Rose is seen searching for handsome black men on the internet, and is unaware of the proceedings, as she has got her earbuds on. Chris finds the same headgear in the car, which was used in the first scene, to attack Andre. He droves off in the car and tries to call the emergency number when suddenly his car hits Georgina accidentally.
Chris feels that he can’t leave her like that, since his mom also underwent the same mishap. He lifts Georgina inside the car and drives away. Suddenly Georgina wakes up, and her wig comes off too, which was used to hide the scars of the operation on her, by the Armitage’s. She attacks Chris in the car itself, which leads to a crash with a tree, and she dies from the impact of the crash.
Rose gets alerted to the noise coming from outside. She picks up the gun and rushes outside. On seeing Chris running away in the car, Rose starts to fire bullets at Chris. Walter also reaches there, whom Rose refers to as Grandpa, and tells him to get Chris.
Again, it is revealed here that, the Armitages had operated on both Georgina and Walter, and swapped their brains with Dean’s mother and father respectively. It explains the reason, that Georgina was behaving like grandma of Rose, and Walter was referred to as Grandpa by Rose. The Armitage’s certainly lured the black people to their place, operated upon every one of them and either sold them to others or used them for their own gains.
Here, Walter brings Chris down, but Chris manages to take his camera out of his pocket and takes a picture of Walter from it, which flashes the light on Walter. Walter’s trance is broken, and he comes to his senses immediately. Walter asks Rose for the gun to kill Chris but fires a bullet into Rose’s stomach. He again fires the second shot through his throat and kills himself too. Rose falls to the ground and tries to reach for her gun. Chris snatches the gun and while Rose says sorry to him, Chris starts to strangulate her, but he can’t do it and therefore leaves her. Rod reaches there in his car and takes Chris with him. Rose lies motionless on the road and dies, while Chris gets away from there, along with Rod and the movie ends there.
FAQ’s related to the movie Get Out
Is Get Out based on a true story?
The movie is based on the racism and somewhat hard hitting. Although claimed by the director of the movie that this is very personal, it may be an art of fiction with some dark facts in it
What was the message of Get Out?
The movie tries to bring forth the dark truth of racism that still exists in the society and how it can lead to something which is shown in the movie as happening. The black guy resorts to revenge and is absolutely sure about his actions.
What is the Coagula procedure?
In the movie, it is shown that the white Americans render the blacks powerless through mental slavery where the black man is forced to abide by the wishes of his or her master. By this way, the White man can make the black to do absolutely anything that his white master wants him to get done for him or her