I think this is very much the
Unbreakable to
Get Out's
Sixth Sense; weirder, messier, and more alienating to a general audience. I happen to think
Unbreakable kicks
Sixth Sense's ass, and I'm halfway to believing that with this as well. I certainly can't complain about
Get Out being a perfect puzzle of a movie, but I think I respond more to this, which is an allegory that's been muddied by nightmare logic until it's almost indecipherable. What some people have been calling sloppy screenwriting I see as a direct rebuttal to the endless online chatter about how tight
Get Out's screenplay is; even the Screenplay 101 callbacks, which helped make
Get Out so satisfying to so many, are proven completely pointless in light of where the story actually goes (my favorite is the callback that's proven totally unsatisfying because
it didn't even happen to the person we think it's calling back to
). But I'll admit that I'd probably like the movie less if not for its final shot, which is so perfect I refuse to even try to unpack it.