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“ Now you’re in the Sunken Place.” Missy intones. Chris slides down through the chair and into a dark void, suspended in nothingness and gazing up at a tiny screen–like view of the outside world. Sink.” The image that follows is simple, surprising, and perfectly chilling. “Just like that day when you did nothing. You’re paralyzed,” Missy whispers in triumph. He starts to cry in spite of himself, betraying feelings he’d never want to reveal to a relative stranger, until he’s completely emotionally exposed. Soon, she’s asking more probing personal questions about Chris’s mother-the manner of her death (a car accident) and his memories of that day, when he was unable to help her. “That’s my kid, that is my kid, you understand?” Missy replies, as the noise of her spoon scraping across her teacup slowly builds in the background. “I’m gonna quit, I promise,” Chris replies, trying to cut the tension by smiling and laughing. “Do you smoke in front of my daughter?” Missy asks. She’s obviously preparing to lecture him about his vice, but what follows next is, of course, much worse. But Peele wants viewers to see how Missy is subtly using her default power over Chris in this situation (he’s in her house, he’s dating her daughter) to make it all but impossible for him to refuse her request. The title of Jordan Peele’s film-which begins as social satire and evolves, in this scene, into nightmarish terror-references what audiences should be shouting at Chris by now.
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It’s clear, both to Chris and to the viewer, that a trap is being sprung. Earlier, Missy-a therapist-had offered to hypnotize Chris to cure him of his nicotine cravings. “Do you realize how dangerous smoking is?” she asks him, with a hint of a smile. Still reeling from Georgina and Walter’s odd behavior, Chris tries to return to his bedroom when a light flicks on: It’s Missy, sitting quietly in the living room. Missy and her husband Dean (Bradley Whitford), who are white, have already copped to the unfortunate optics of being waited on by black employees in their fancy country estate, while insisting the pair are part of the family. Walter and Georgina are both African American, like Chris. Then Chris saw the housekeeper Georgina (Betty Gabriel) staring at her own reflection in a zombified state. A first-time guest at the Armitages’ home, Chris had just watched the family’s groundskeeper Walter (Marcus Henderson) charge at him in the dead of night, as if chasing an invisible enemy. Thirty minutes into the horror film Get Out, Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) senses something malevolent is afoot as he sits down to talk about his smoking problem with his girlfriend’s mom, Missy Armitage (Catherine Keener).
Movie hypnosis series#
Over the next month, The Atlantic’s “And, Scene” series will delve into some of the most interesting films of the year by examining a single, noteworthy moment and unpacking what it says about 2017.