Out steps Rod (Lil Rel Howery), Chris’s best friend, arriving in his TSA-issued emergency vehicle to rescue Chris just in the nick of time. Everyone around me held their breath - we all know how this scenario unfolds: Emmett Till, the Central Park Five, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, etc., etc. Chris puts his hands in the air with a look of total exhaustion in his eyes. Confident her whiteness will protect her, Rose plays up being an innocent white woman and cries for the cops to save her. A police car pulls into the road flashing its sirens. As the two tussle in the road, Chris wraps his hands around Rose’s neck but can’t bring himself to strangle her despite the smug, evil grin on her face. In the final scene, Chris (Oscar winner Daniel Kaluuya in his first nominated role) is trying to get away from the secluded estate of his duplicitous white girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams), who has taken him to meet her not-so-nice white family so her father could surgically transplant an elderly blind man’s brain into Chris’s body. On a cold March day a month after Trump’s inauguration, I saw Get Out at Coolidge Corner Theater and it ended up being one of the most cathartic filmgoing experiences of my life. OJ Haywood (Daniel Kaluuya), Em Haywood (Keke Palmer), and Angel Torres (Brandon Peara) in Nope.

Screening at Somerville Theatre, Kendall Square Cinema, and movie houses throughout New England. Nope, Jordan Peele’s highly anticipated third feature, is an awe-inspiring marvel about our own unrelenting obsession with spectacle.

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