GET OUT nominated for four Oscars! Here’s why this is good…

“GET OUT” has been nominated for four Oscars: best actor, best director, best screenplay, and best film.    And as a superb example of a film that is both technically fine and a genuine expression of human concerns, disguised as a “mere” genre film I am ecstatic.  A movie like this succeeding allows us to dive DEEP into how it happened, and extract lessons we can apply to other works, and life itself.  It is a valid contribution to the human conversation.

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