Last year, the movie Get Out was released and was must see for everyone. Now I’m not a movie critic and my analysis of movies isn’t always spot on, but the main theme in the movie, which I think many people can agree to, is the idea that white people like to trap or control black people to keep them stuck, or as the movie refers to as keeping them in a “sunken place”. Now this isn’t to generalize all people of an individual race, but I believe this was a huge point in the movie. And this is something that has been happening for many years in America. Black people have been put into “sunken places” where they can’t escape. When you think about slavery, and how Africans were brought to America, they literally could not get out and if they tried to get out, they were killed. They were stuck.
When I think about this, I think about how this movie and this idea of the”sunken place” can be tied to our relationship with God, or our spiritual walk. We have things in this world or of this world that trap us. To the point where we feel like we can’t get out. What happens in the movie is Chris, the main character, goes to visit his girlfriends family for the weekend and they seem like an nice loving family, but he saw some things that seemed a little off. (And remember before he went, his friend told him not to go.) Chris saw these black people that were servants for the family. He thought it was weird and this led to him investigating. Now sometimes in life, we go and investigate things we aren’t supposed to investigate. Sometimes there are signs that tell us, “no”, “stop”, “don’t do that”, “don’t go that way”, but we go anyways because we’re curious.
They say curiosity kills the cat.
Occasionally in life we investigate things, or get involved in things that we have no business getting involved in whether it’s drugs, alcohol, sex, or whatever the case may be because we just want to see what it’s like. And then we get stuck. These things become our vices. They become our sunken places.
In the movie, the mother would stir a spoon. This was significant because the stirring of the spoon would cause people who were under her “spell” to fall into this sunken place where they couldn’t get out. In life, we too have these things that are metaphorically like a spoon stirring to send us into our own sunken place. For someone that may be addicted to alcohol, walking into a bar can be like a spoon stirring. They see all of the alcohol, and they may not be able to overcome the temptation, so they fall into their sunken place of drunkenness. Or if your vice is money, you’ll do anything to get more money. Someone could come up to you and tell you that all you have to do is this one thing, and you could have all of this money. It may be against your morals or values, but you do it anyways because that spoon started stirring for you and you can’t seem to overcome that love of money.
You can’t seem to get out.
So how often do you get trapped by your vices? How often do you allow your vices to put you into your own sunken place? How do you get out?
In the movie, Chris ends up killing everybody to get out. So when you think about what’s keeping you trapped, you have to kill those things that cause that spoon to stir for you. If you have a sex addiction, maybe going to a strip club isn’t for you. If you have an alcohol addiction, maybe you should stay away from the bar. Whatever it is that is a source of temptation, you have to turn away from it so that you won’t become a slave to your vices.
Your sunken places take you away from God. They put you in the dark places, that you don’t want to be in. The further you fall, the harder it is for you get out.
Once you get the strength to kill off those sources of temptation, God will be right there to pick you up. In the movie, Chris’ friend shows up after he has killed all the people in the house. That’s what God is for us. He’s waiting for us to kill off those things that are causing us to fall into those sunken places and He’ll be right there to rescue us. You have to dead those things that are stopping you from getting to God. Sometimes we are so sunken that it’s hard for us to see God, but He’s reaching for us, telling us to come back, just like Chris’s friend told him to come back in the movie. But the further you are, and the more sunken you are, the harder it is come back. But don’t give up. God will always be right there waiting for you.
Remember you always have a way out. You just have to choose to get out.
Xoxo,
Jazmine
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