“Get Out” Ending Revealed: Is Rose Alive At the End of the Movie?

From the twisted and complex mind of Jordan Peele came a movie like Get Out. The 2017 flick redefines horror and gives viewers a thought-provoking plot that leaves them baffled to the core. With a staggering $255.4 million box office collection, it’s needless to say that Get Out was an incredible success.

As viewers went deeper into the movie and peeled the layers of the narrative, not only did they find horror and scary elements, but they also found societal commentaries that sparked a conversation. If you missed understanding some parts of the movie, read on to know the synopsis of the plot ad well as how it all ended.

What happens in Get Out?

The movie essentially follows an interracial couple, where the man is Black and the woman is Caucasian, as they make their way to the latter’s family home. Chris and Rose are excited to finally take this step and meet the parents. He is understandably nervous since their opinion matters to Rose. Things seem to start off well, but gradually, Chris notices a pattern which leaves him utterly disturbed.

First, he notices how all the helpers and servants at the house are Black and colored people. He dismisses the thought at first but repeated interactions with the group make him more weirded out by the situation. Rose’s father is a neurosurgeon whereas her mother is a psychiatrist. Though this looks impressive at first, Chris soon realizes how it’s all part of a larger scheme at play.

As it turns out, the Armitage family has a diabolical plan to make commodities out of bodies of Black people. Chris uncovers their sinister activities when he notices there are no Black guests at their parties and the old White attendees act suspiciously too. When Chris feels something is terribly wrong, he tries to run away before being knocked unconscious and tied in a basement.

The plan brewing in the minds of the Armitage family involves taking Black people hostage and performing brain surgery on them. When their older White friends pass away, their brains are placed in the Black people’s bodies in a process called The Coagula. This way, the White ideology takes control of Black bodies and makes commodities out of them, similar to slavery. As Chris goes deeper into understanding this plan, he is shocked to the core to find this sort of thinking prevalent even in modern society.

How does Get Out end?

The climax of the movie begins when Chris finds himself powerless in the basement of the Armitage house. One of the major reasons why he tries to run away is because Chris realizes that at the party, there were people placing bids on him. The Armitage family was presenting Chris as the next item on the agenda before having their wealthy guests place a large sum of bet to have their brain placed in Chris’s body.

The horrific turn of events was enough for Chris to run for his life. Eventually, he understands what the family has been up to and figures out a way to save his life. Though Rose claimed that Chris is her first African-American boyfriend, Chris finds a box in her room with photographs of her past boyfriends who turn out to be all Blacks. This causes Chris to snap and finally see how Rose is also part of it all. He decides he will not let the Armitages hypnotize him and put another brain in him, no matter what happens.

The cult formed by the Armitage, Order of the Coagula, used to show Black people a video which was also used to hypnotize them. Chris blocks out his ears in the basement to escape the hypnosis and overpowers all the other family members. He fights them all tooth and nail to survive and kills them in the process. Chris’s friend Rod eventually comes to the rescue, who Chris had called at the beginning of the events. Despite a few snags along the way, they leave the Armitage house burning to ashes and drive off with a newfound love for life.

What was the reason behind the Armitages’ plan?

Despite living in the 21st century, the Armitages carry historical beliefs that Black people are animals and can only be helpful through their brute strength. This made them see Blacks as a specimen of good physical health with no attention to their talents, creativity, or intelligence. Rose and her parents used this ideology for their friends from the cult and had them live on despite their old age. Rose’s grandparents themselves were placed in the bodies of their servants Walter and Georgina, who were the first ones to display eccentric behavior.

The core reasoning behind their sinister plan was to consolidate their belief that Blacks are inferior beings and need to be put in their place. This is also why Rose seemingly smiles when Chris chokes her to kill her. She finds solace in the fact that Chris’s violent tendencies mean they were right all along without comprehending that she pushed him to such extremes.

Rose’s love and affection was nothing but a sham used to lure people of color to the Armitage home where they could be operated on and used for the Whites’ benefit. In the end, Chris leaves Rose on the road after she has been shot by Walter. Chris does not help her as he sees her bleeding out at the edge of the road. It’s safe to assume that Rose dies by the time any help may have reached her.

The entire story in Get Out revolves around the struggles Black people face to date, despite slavery and bondage being banned decades ago. People are continually failing to see Blacks as equals in society no matter how much they achieve in life. Chris’s fight against the Armitages epitomizes the Blacks’ quest against oppression and brutality.

He reclaims his power in the face of completely losing his life and proves that he is so much more than just a great physical specimen. Thanks to his friend who believed in him even when the police did not, Chris is successful in running away from the evil Armitage house, leaving viewers wondering what fate awaited him on the other side of the story.

Get Out is streaming on Netflix.