A Visit That Became a Nightmare
When Jordan Peele’s Get Out hit theaters in 2017, it was marketed as a psychological horror-thriller, but audiences quickly realized it was something far deeper. The story followed Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya), a young Black photographer visiting the suburban home of his white girlfriend Rose Armitage (Allison Williams). What begins as awkward family pleasantries with her seemingly progressive parents spirals into a surreal and terrifying exploration of racism, privilege, and exploitation.
Peele structured the film like a slow-boil horror classic. The uncomfortable dinner-table comments, the bizarrely subservient Black servants, and the creepy hypnosis session with Rose’s mother—each moment was a breadcrumb leading to the revelation of the “Sunken Place” and the Armitage family’s grotesque brain-transplant scheme. By the time Chris discovers the truth, the audience is already trapped in the same paranoid, suffocating tension he feels.
But Get Out didn’t just end with Chris’s bloody escape. In fact, theories about alternate endings, hidden messages, and subtle details kept viewers talking long after the credits rolled.
The Ending That Almost Was
In the theatrical cut, Chris defeats the Armitages in a brutal fight, and just when flashing police lights suggest his doom, it turns out to be his best friend Rod (Lil Rel Howery) from the TSA, arriving to save him. It’s a triumphant exhale for audiences who had been bracing for tragedy.
Yet Jordan Peele originally wrote a much darker ending. In that version, the flashing lights really did belong to the police. Chris would be arrested for murder despite being the victim, and the Armitages’ sinister world would continue unchecked. Peele revealed in interviews that this was his initial vision, a bleak commentary on systemic injustice.
However, when test audiences watched it, the mood in the room was crushing. Peele said he realized the country needed a victory story in the middle of rising racial tensions. So he rewrote the ending, keeping it socially aware while offering catharsis. Still, fans continue to debate whether the darker ending might have been more truthful to reality.
Fan theories often completely recontextualized how people interacted with the film.
If Get Out is a frantically complex story with multiple intertwined symbolisms, fans of the movie were quick enough to try to put a theory to Everythin. One of the first major instances was the deer Chris hits with Rose’s car. Dying did not Philadelphia the dying deer and the countless carcasses scattered over the freeway and the highways of America say more of a “Chris is trapped and hunted” or “His existence is complexly vilified and criminalized,” as Rose’s father did. “There needs to be a population control” of Black men, and we remark this criminalizing, depicting how patriarchal and misogynistic the supremacies of Annetta still is.
Another significant theory that gained a lot of attention was, Georgina, the housekeeper. People have noticed that at times, she seems to be in tears and reaches a state of absolute joy. Some people theorized that the real Georgina was underneath the implanted consciousness of Rose’s grandmother. In interviews, Peele admitted that intention was that those flickers of humanity were the host bodies momentarily breaking through.
There was extensive online obsession with the teacup used in hypnosis as well. Some people spectated whether it represented the genteel slavery era in which it was said that violence was used in the name of hospitality. Peele himself hinted that the cup is an analogy to how in “light and frivolous” conversation, suppression, to more and more, people in powerless positions is done.
Alternate Reads and Speculations
In the months following the film’s release, audiences were able to construct alternate narratives and interpretations, including the argument that Chris never truly escaped the Sunken Place, and that the happy ending was simply a fantasy that he dreamt while sinking deeper into hypnosis and was the result of being fully subsumed into a waking hypnotic state. Others speculated that Rod’s arrival was not to be taken literally, but rather it was a symbolic representation of a tangential notion where one’s survival instinct defies despair and arises to the surface.
Some film bloggers developed a theory suggesting that Rose was never hypnotized like the rest of the Black servants, and rather, she was fully complicit and sadistic from the beginning—her box of photos with several Black boyfriends was testimony that she was a predator and not a pawn. This theory was only fueled by Allison Williams, who stated in interviews that to embody the role of Rose she had to fully disengage her empathetic faculties, suggesting that at her core, Rose is “pure evil.”
How the Puzzle’s Pieces Interact With the Mysterious Narrative
The award winning actor Daniel Kaluuya discussed the physical strain that came with playing the character Chris, which for him, haunted him with an Oscar nomination. For the Sunken Place scenes, he had to tap into an area of emotional fragility that is rare for most people. One of those scenes for him is the one he claims to have cried emotionally rolling back taping into bygone moments of being an isolated Black feeling alone in the world during most of the time around predominantly white people.
The character he claims to have been influenced by the most was Rose. She observes the transition with confusion, which is where he claims he was told to do the most. “Almost as if he were seeing Rose as an innocent character up to the period where she was meant to psychologically manipulat him the most, which is where he emphasizes the betrayal”. Rose was the most supportive character.
However, Lil Rel Howery did manage to assist the character with the comic relief. Though, the TSA ending was turned into the audience was wishing to see at that moment, the laughter Roblox desperately needed to ease the flow of so much tension.
Jordan Peele enjoyed the theorizing a great deal. He confirmed some, but let many of the rest drift into the ether, interacting on social media. He called the movie a Rorschach and said “the more you bring to it, the more it gives back. “
Secrets Behind the Scenes
Few know that the main producer and director of the racially charged horror, “Get Out”, doubted whether it would be made or not. Peele, the director, Get Out knew he was working with a sketch comic. Peele made attempts on working on the movie with several studios, but all had refused it. Blumhouse Productions decided to take the chance with the racially charged movie and it was completed in 23 days and uses a budget of 4.5 million dollars.
Equally little understood is the fact that the apprehended Sunken Place scenes were framed and completed with real life effects instead of heavy CGI. Kaluuya is illustrated with dust and light to create the illusion of weightlessness. Peele requested that it be made to look “raw and unsettling” rather than flexible. He used “nightmare” to help clarify the effect he wanted it to have.
The location of the Armitage residence was even more selective. For the sake of the production, the team needed a piece of real estate that had a fairytale-like representation of affluence and security bound within a postcard. Knowing how much serenity was steeped in the framework of the horrors within versus the calmness of the setting was enough to unnerve the target audience.
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