Sentences with phrase «sunken place»

National Book Award Finalist M.T. Anderson captures all these and more in his new novel for middle - grade readers, The Game of Sunken Places.

There's lots of different sunken places.

Too many spirited conversations with colleagues and young members of the movie industry, too much excited chitchat about how everything had changed, too many tweets riven with Sunken Place GIFs, and too much wonder over what it would mean for the future of the Oscars if the show could follow its historic Moonlight moment with a genuinely transgressive acknowledgment of Jordan Peele's social - thriller - horror - comedy - documentary as best in class.

Missy Armitage, Rose's mom, has perfected the art of hypnosis, tapping a teaspoon on a glass of lemonade or a cup of tea, sending her unsuspecting victims into what she calls «the sunken place» where their souls remain trapped in a hypnotized abyss.

As we have seen with some 81 percent of evangelical Christians (including a number of black clergy) supporting one of the most racist presidential campaigns we have seen in modern history, much of American Christianity continues to specialize in leaving the minds of black folk in the bondage of the sunken place.

Today we feature Erykah Badu, one of the foremost musical Talking to R&B singer Erykah Badu about Jedi mind tricks, how millennials hear music, and not taking rappers to the sunken place.

Some have also taken the scene to depict him trying to escape «The Sunken Place,» a reference to Jordan Peele's 2017 racial horror film, Get Out.

Whatever it is, we're still talking about it, and references to The Sunken Place are now outnumbering brags of «I would have voted for Obama a third time if I could...»

Jordan Peele, who scored two personal nominations for best director and original screenplay, as well as two more nominations for «Get Out,» seemed almost stunned, reacting with a gif of Kaluuya in one of the film's iconic scenes and asking «What's the opposite of the sunken place?»

Dumping the usual movie liberal pieties into the Sunken Place, Peele made the concept of black paranoia both a universally palpable and psychologically specific, individual thing.

«The sunken place is the system that silences the voice of women, minorities, and of other people,» he said.

«The sunken place is the President who calls athletes sons of bitches for expressing their beliefs on the field and the homeland of our most beautiful immigrants --- holes.»

Peele cited the movie's «Sunken place» in his acceptance speech.

Right now, today, I feel like I'm in the opposite of the sunken place.

But the important thing to note is that many people in America, as we've seen in this past year, have been in and remain in the sunken place.

«It feels like we are living in the sunken place right now,» said «Get Out» writer - director Jordan Peele, accepting the Stanley Kramer Award, making a reference to the film's signature moment that he sees as a symbol for the marginalized.

YAMATO: I'm hoping Oscar Sunday is at least as exciting as nominations morning was this year, when Greta Gerwig («Lady Bird») and Jordan Peele («Get Out») scored first time directing nominations and Tiffany Haddish coined the phrase «Kalleluuya» while announcing the most thrilling acting nod of 2018: Daniel Kaluuya, for his sharply navigated work battling his way out of the Sunken Place in Peele's film.

So yes, this feeling shows me that there is an opposite to the sunken place, but there's so much more work to do before this country is out of it.

The sunken place to me is the silencing of voices, and the silencing of expression, and the cries for help and the cries for justice.

Art is our weapon... we can break out of the Sunken Place together.»

You'll live in The Sunken Place.»

The phrase «the sunken place» has become so widely adopted this year, and with such instant familiarity to so many people.

Does this moment feel like stepping out of Hollywood's sunken place, that you're able to transcend that unseen space?

Now that it's in theaters, let's examine its sunken places.

As Chris, a young black photographer who gets sucked into a racial nightmare — a «sunken place» — when he visits the family of his white girlfriend (Allison Williams), the British actor takes audiences to places that are honest and true and, for many, difficult and discomfiting.

We'll be in the opposite of the Sunken Place if it turns out this way, but honestly: your guess may be as good as ours here.

Sebastian Silva's story of a young black man (Mudbound's Jason Mitchell) trying and failing to fit in during a guys weekend in the Catskills is a masterclass in racial alienation — the drunken dude trip reimagined as the Sunken Place.

Peele says the paintings, digital art, drawings, poems and photography portraying Chris, the sunken place and other movie symbols started pouring in pretty much simultaneously.

«Get Out,» released in February 2017, was a slow - building hit — eventually grossing more than $ 250 million while resonating in pop culture with references to its memorable characters and «sunken place» as a metaphor for race and the feeling of helplessness in America.

Standout scene: So much about «Get Out» has already entered the pop culture vernacular, but despite being discussed and parodied for nearly a full year by now, the first descent into the Sunken Place is still powerful and terrifying.

Universal and Peele were thrilled, as the film (and the phrase «The Sunken Place») quickly became a cultural phenomenon.

Many will point to the first hypnosis scene in Get Out, when Kaluuya's Chris is forced to recall the death of his mother, tears streaming down his horrified face, before he's banished to the Sunken Place.

Last year, dozens of lucky students got to take «The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival, and Black Horror Aesthetic,» a UCLA course on black horror, inspired by Jordan Peele's hit movie Get Out.

«The sunken place is this metaphor for the system that is suppressing the freedom of black people,» he said.

For a long stretch, the film doesn't even play as horror, save for a relatively early scene in which Missy displays her hypnosis skills (This sequence not only is precisely abstract — imagining a «sunken place» in which Chris helplessly watches the world as if through a television screen, akin to the defining trauma of his life — but also sets up a rationale for an otherwise bad decision he makes late in the story).

Here Peele discusses what «the sunken place» from his horror film «Get Out» meant to him:

Jordan Peele's «Get Out» is, again, a work of savvy craft that pulls an unsuspecting (white) viewer into a Sunken Place that other moviegoers know all too well; the movie works as a horror film, as a goof on horror films, as a working street - map of African - American anxieties, and, for a white liberal audience, as an endlessly reflective hall of mirrors that urges a hard, necessary look at oneself.

Thank you for giving us the indelible phrase «the sunken place» to best describe how crazy and upside down this world has become.

From WWII to the war on America's free press, a riot - torn Detroit to the Sunken Place — Peter Travers on his Top 10 films of the year

Still, you can't help but fear that Get Out might end up in «the sunken place» on Oscar night, given the lack of academy appreciation for other terrifying classics.

Kanye West talks about the Sunken Place in his new song «Watch,» and it's far from the first movie reference he's made.

Kris Jenner has spent the last 30 years or so of her life putting men in the sunken place, and not once has any of them ever malfunctioned while still being IN the sunken place... until now.

With the clinking of her tea cup and a hauntingly gentle command — «Now sink» — Missy is able to brainwash Chris, who descends into a dark void called «The Sunken Place.»

«For instance, they could have me say things like «Killmonger was right,» or «Ben Carson is in the sunken place.»