If you’re anything like me, you can tell the movie’s entire plot halfway through. However, with me, that usually comes in the form of musicals, Disney Channel movies, and any Lifetime movie. Now, with films like “Get Out” and “Moonlight,” those weren’t as easy to guess about. While some people look at “Get Out” as a comedy, I didn’t get that. I see “Get Out” as more of a thriller than a comedy. Not to say that it’s not spectacular, because it is. From the second it started to the second it ended, I was hooked. Now, I’m not the most into thriller movies, but “Get Out and “A Simple Favor” have to be my two favorites.

So, if you haven’t watched “Get Out,” you absolutely should. To me, “Get Out” raises many questions about race in all the best ways possible. It starts with this couple, Rose and Chris, who spend some time away at Rose’s parents’ house, and it all goes downhill from there. Chris gets some weird vibes after meeting the family, especially the brother of the family. The mom is a hypnotist, the dad is a neurosurgeon, and I don’t remember the brother’s doing. (But I did find the brother to be incredibly creepy, but I soon figured out why. After meeting the family, along with the caretaker and foreman of the house, there is a gathering. During that gathering, Chris meets one of the only other black people in the vicinity, Logan. He realizes that this person seems familiar but odd. He takes a photo of this guy with the flash on, and Logan freaks out. Chris soon finds out that Logan is a missing person by the name of Andre. After finding this out, he tries to leave and gets trapped by being hypnotized by the mall. He then finds out what’s going on and tries to escape. You don’t see a lot he gets saved by his best friend, but I wish I would have. I thought that would’ve made a much better ending compared to just having my left with a bunch of questions. However, that’s a pretty cool way to end it.

With “Moonlight,” it’s a different story. It is about a boy who grows up and realizes his identity. With that came trials and tribulations and a lot of pain. Chiron was his name. His mom was a drug addict, and by the time he was a teenager, he had lost the person he considered his mentor and father figure. He was betrayed by his best friend and love interest at that same time in his life. By the time he became an adult, he had started dealing drugs and being something he was not sure he wanted to be. The movie ends on a great note. It ends with Chiron and his former best friend and love interest, Kevin, reconciling and away. As part of the LGBTQ+ community, I can relate to some of this. I can’t relate to it, but I felt Chiron’s pain. Overall, “Moonlight” is a beautiful film, and I would watch it again. I love all the flow and movement of each act. The fact that it’s told in three acts makes it even better because it moves the story along in a way you wouldn’t think about. Again, great film.

Going back to get out, a particular scene piqued my interest. It was the scene where Rose and Chris first meet Rose’s parents, and before they get there, they strike a deer. No, I think that foreshadowed what would happen towards the end, but I didn’t figure that out until halfway through the movie. The dad said that deer are “rats,” that they were ruining the ecosystem, and something along the lines of “one down and many to go.” While I found racist undertones in that, I realized that wasn’t why I was feeling suspicious; that was setting the tone for what’s happening later in the movie. Especially because Chris was not allowed to go anywhere near the basement, as I watched the film further, I realized, “Oh, something will happen.” All the shots and motions that the camera would make provided further depth and emotion when it came to this specific set of scenes. Context is not easy for me most times in movies I’ve never seen before, but the more I watched, the more context I put together. So, I kept going back to the deer scene and thinking, “this was foreshadowing all along!”

Overall, I found both films very entertaining, and I loved them!