As Catherine Keener stirs her tea with her silver spoon of privilege (props to the sound department for making a china cup sound so ominous), she hypnotises Daniel Kaluuya’s hero Chris, frozen still with fear as he sinks into his seat, then deeper, until he’s beyond our plane of existence. Enter the sunken place: according to director Jordan Peele, it’s a metaphor for the deep, dark hole that African-Americans have to struggle to escape from every day, but the sunken place is frightening in a literal sense too. It’s telling how quickly Get Outbecame part of the national conversation – not just because it held up a mirror to Americans who were frightened by the reflection, but because it was jam-packed full of razor-sharp ideas and iconic scenes. No matter how hard we scream, the system silences us,” explained director Jordan Peele. “The Sunken Place means we’re marginalized.
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