One of the best movies of the year just got even better
Get Out is a great movie, and nothing makes it greater than watching it with an unprepared audience. Especially when that audience consists of persons of color for whom much of the circumstances of the movie ring painfully true. And are also your parents.
One young “brown” woman treated Twitter to such an experience when she screened Get Out for her mom and dad, and the results were spectacular.
It all started when Twitter user @Krutika, aka Krutika Mallikarjuna, a Features Editor at TV Guide, told her mother that Jordan Peele’s thriller-satire-documentary Get Out was the best movie of 2017.
pray 4 me my mom asked me what the best movie of the year was and i said get out so now….we're watching get out
— discourse wallah (@krutika) December 30, 2017
Krutika isn’t sure how they’ll react…
they brown, but are they this brown!?!?!
— discourse wallah (@krutika) December 30, 2017
Let the games begin! (Spoilers ahoy!)
we just watched the 'i would have voted for obama a third time' scene and my dad turned to me and asked if white parents of people i date talk to me like this
— discourse wallah (@krutika) December 30, 2017
the answer is yes
That isn’t the first uncomfortable truth her parents will be confronted with tonight…
my mom: wtf is wrong with georgina, what did that white lady do to her
— discourse wallah (@krutika) December 30, 2017
You know how fun it can be to watch a twisty movie with someone who hasn’t seen it yet?
i love watching people watch this movie
— discourse wallah (@krutika) December 30, 2017
This viewing session is that times 1000!
omg the groundskeeper introducing himself to chris
— discourse wallah (@krutika) December 30, 2017
my dad: did he just say a dog gone keeper? brown folks don't talk like that, i don't like this
Of course, even if you’ve seen it before, Get Out still packs a wallop.
FUUUUUUCK THE SUNKEN PLACE SCENE EVERYONE NN THIS LIVING ROOM SCREAMED INCLUDING ME AND I'VE SEEN THIS MOVIE MULTIPLE TIMES
— discourse wallah (@krutika) December 30, 2017
this whole undercover auction scene is so much considering i know what's happening and my parents don't
— discourse wallah (@krutika) December 30, 2017
She’s confident they’ll clue in soon…
the groans at 'black is in fashion' was good tho, they about to figure it out
— discourse wallah (@krutika) December 30, 2017
i feel like they'll put it together by the end of this scene
Glad to hear Dad is focused on the real brutality here:
my dad: WHO THE FUCK KEEPS UNPLUGGING HIS PHONE THAT IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
— discourse wallah (@krutika) December 30, 2017
me: you don't even know yet b
They also know who the real hero of the movie is:
my parents love rod LOVE ROD
— discourse wallah (@krutika) December 30, 2017
it's straight up cause he used jeffrey dahmer as an example of white insanity and you know what, he right
my dad: i only trust rod
— discourse wallah (@krutika) December 30, 2017
same dad, same
Also, shouts to Lakeith Stanfield (Atlanta comes back in 2018!):
my dad: is [lakeith stanfield] screaming the name of the movie?!?!? jesus fucking christ this is scary as shit, what's wrong with him
— discourse wallah (@krutika) December 30, 2017
my dad: i don't get what's happening, the flash went off and he slipped out of his customer service voice? but now he's back to white people tone?
— discourse wallah (@krutika) December 30, 2017
Now we approach the climax. Of both the movie and the tweet thread.
both my parents: WHAT THE FUCK WHY ARE THERE SO MANY PHOTOS OF NICE BLACK FOLKS WITH ALISON WILLIAMS!?!?!
— discourse wallah (@krutika) December 30, 2017
my dad: LITERALLY GET OUT
They are both highly entertaining.
my dad: ROD WAS RIGHT BITCH YOU BOUT TO BE A SEX SLAVE!!!! TRUST NO WHITE HYPNOTIST!!!!!
— discourse wallah (@krutika) December 30, 2017
my mom: omg she's hiding the keys SHE'S HIDING THE KEYS
— discourse wallah (@krutika) December 30, 2017
There were some mixed feelings as it all played out:
my mom: i s2g if chris dies at the end i will never let you pick a movie again, not in this house
— discourse wallah (@krutika) December 30, 2017
we just got to the scene where they explain the procedure and my parents are so mad at me for making them watch this movie
— discourse wallah (@krutika) December 30, 2017
they'll be singing a different tune in a half hour
But she was right, they came around by the end.
my dad: the brother is too stupid looking to be a doctor, that's the most unrealistic part of this movie
— discourse wallah (@krutika) December 30, 2017
literal applause at the death of the brother, i need another martini tho cause we (aka everyone except my parents) knows georgina bout to get run over and really fuck some shit up
— discourse wallah (@krutika) December 30, 2017
my dad is so happy walter saved chris he's very drunk and talking about brotherhood right now
— discourse wallah (@krutika) December 30, 2017
WILD APPLAUSE WHEN ROD SHOWS UP IN THE COP CAR!!!!!!! MY DAD IS ON HIS FEET RIGHT NOW
— discourse wallah (@krutika) December 30, 2017
Finally, their daughter’s choice of film was vindicated:
both my parents: okay that movie was fucking phenomenal, you're allowed to pick movies again in this house
— discourse wallah (@krutika) December 30, 2017
Leave it to Mom to pull the true lesson from the movie:
the REAL message of my parents watching get out:
— discourse wallah (@krutika) December 30, 2017
"krutika you would never treat chris like that, bring him to our house"
(Not every tweet in the thread is included here, feel free to check the entire thing out!)