Alissa Wilkinson, reviewing Jordan Peele’s new horror film Get Out in Vox.com, says:
Get Out is a movie about double consciousness, and it pulls off its goal with skill
In the film’s final act, the racism subtext becomes text in a big way, which reveals what Get Out was after all along. The film taps into the phenomenon of double consciousness, which W.E.B. Du Bois wrote about in an essay that appeared in his 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk.
Wilkinson argues that the main character of Peele’s movie experiences a 2017 version of double consciousness. Read the full review here and see if you agree with her interpretation of the concept.
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