Why "Get Out" is so great

It addresses real world problems and brings to the surface things that members of majority groups might not understand. The very awkward and slightly rude interactions between the white party attendants and the main character, Chris,  may have been drawn from the director's actual experience. I hear about it a lot but to see an example of it in a film hits different. It helps me to empathize better and to understand the types of interactions that people of color experience. I can feel the tension and awkwardness of the interactions through the screen. It frustrates me even though I'm not the one experiencing it. 

Put yourself in Chris's shoes. Imagine the person you fell in love with, someone you trust and who you see a future with, turns on you in a split second and becomes an emotionless psycho. Rose pretended to care about and love Chris deeply and she did it well. Imagine if everything you had, every connection, every conversation, every moment you had together was fake. And even then, when Rose clearly betrayed him, he still loved her. He still called for her, sought for her. In the very end of the film, when he had the opportunity to kill her, he couldn't bring himself to do it. Thinking about this makes me emotional. 

Interestingly, at the end of the film when Chris is about to get murdered, we see Rose sitting on her bed completely unbothered, looking for her next victim. She has her head phones in and is eating a bowl of cereal. There's an ongoing joke about how people who eat their cereal wrong are "serial killers". If you pour the milk before the cereal then you're a psychopath. The irony is that she was eating the cereal pieces slowly, one by one and taking long sips of milk after. Now that is truly the behavior of a psychopath serial killer. It would have been cool and mysterious to show that in the beginning of the film to foreshadow it.