It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome back to The Next Picture Show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film in the way it's shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Tasha Robinson, here again with...

Scott Tobias. Keith Phipps.

Genevieve Kosky is on vacation, but she will totally be back soon because we absolutely did not slaughter her and feed her to our pet basement cannibals.

Speaking of basement cannibals, in the first half of this conversation, we talked about

the people under the stairs, the 1991 film that brought horror director West Craven back

to overt political metaphor and made racial inequity and prejudice in an open topic of

discussion. That same sort of overt political metaphor hangs heavily over Get Out, the feature

directorial debut of Jordan Peel,

half of the comedy pairing of Key and Peel. I cannot emphasize this enough. If you have not seen

this film yet, you should really turn off this podcast and go watch it. The best way to walk

into this film is with no specifics about exactly how it addresses racial conflict or where

the story is going. Even more than most films,

it's a discovery movie where the question hanging in the air is whether Chris, the black

protagonist, played by Daniel Kiluga, is just being paranoid when he thinks there's something

strange going on with the rich, friendly parents of his new white girlfriend. The film keeps

as close to his point of view as he navigates their lush lifestyle and a form of friendliness

that always seems a little dangerous, especially when he meets their strangely

artificial, emotionally removed black housekeeper and groundskeeper. Get Out builds up an

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