While Get Out has comedic bits, it's mainly a horror satire that taps into realities. Slavery by white men and exotification of black men by white women.
Jordan Peele didn't have a say into how the Golden Globes would categorise Get Out into the "Best Musical or Comedy" category rather than "Best Drama". What the movie is about isn't that funny or removed from reality.
Jordan Peele Challenges Golden Globes Classifying 'Get Out' As a Comedy: 'What Are You Laughing At?'
Indeed, Peele offered a compelling argument against the comedy category for his movie. "What the movie is about is not funny," he said. "I've had many black people come up to me and say, 'man, this is the movie we've been talking about for a while and you did it.' That's a very powerful thing. For that to be put in a smaller box than it deserves is where the controversy comes from."
Of course, part of the secret to the success of "Get Out" stems from its ability to combine multiple types of experiences into a single unexpected narrative. "I think the issue here is that the movie subverts the idea of all genres," Peele said. "Call it what you want, but the movie is an expression of my truth, my experience, the experiences of a lot of black people, and minorities. Anyone who feels like the other. Any conversation that limits what it can be is putting it in a box."
"The major point to identify here is that we don't want our truth trivialized. The label of comedy is often a trivial thing. The real question is, what are you laughing at? Are you laughing at the horror, the suffering? Are you disregarding what's real about this project? That's why I said, yeah — it's a documentary."
Also, Spike Lee's "Black Klansman" sounds pretty good.
