Every actor had a wonderful performance, including the child actors. Lupita Nyong'o was a revelation in both roles. Hollywood needs to give her all the lead roles she wants.
This movie is alot like M. Night's Signs. They're both good movies that make you think but once you bring in logic, they both fall apart.
There's a race of uneducated clones living underground with access to an escalator. They only eat rabbits. Their children look identical to their clones children and they get pregnant at exactly the same time? And they manage to kill a bunch of people with scissors? Where are the cops? The military? The invasion would have been all over Twitter and FB and IG.
Otherwise the movie is pretty good.
She was always aware. She was hiding that she was a tethered. Her son figured it out when he saw her kill the twin and she was acting/sounding like a tethered.Am I the only one who thought it was "obvious" that right at the end of the film Adelaide became aware that she was the "clone"? It seemed like a revelation that came to her through flashbacks given the trauma of the event? I didn't get the feeling Adelaide was aware of her past at all until then.
My read was when they girls switched they became less aware of their individual pasts through their new circumstances. Adelaide being tethered had some sense of experience of her other before the switch, and possibly even the child therapy would have talked her out of the "delusion" of being trapped underground. Similarly, the trauma of Red, entrapment, and whatever mechanism is driving the tethering may have condemned her to being (or at least feeling) trapped, and 20+ years of not talking to anyone plus the confinement drove her mad.
In any case, really enjoyed it. Too many highlights, so the lowlights for me were the initial text intro and the overly long exposition by Red at the blackboard. Both felt unnecessarily heavy handed.
Where are the cops? The military? The invasion would have been all over Twitter and FB and IG.
She was always aware. She was hiding that she was a tethered. Her son figured it out when he saw her kill the twin and she was acting/sounding like a tethered.
I thought the movie was both good and bad. I wanted to love it but the plothole or lack of a plot overall really bothered me. Just too many questions and lack of plausibility about the whole scenario.
Also, is the end scene supposed to show that the govt is shooting the clones down? As they are lined up on the hills?
Every actor had a wonderful performance, including the child actors. Lupita Nyong'o was a revelation in both roles. Hollywood needs to give her all the lead roles she wants.
I only saw three helicopters and they all look like news choppers. I didn't see any police or soldiers. I understand everyone was attacked by murderous clones armed with soldiers but if two children can takeout three of them like they're playing Dead Rising, I'm sure the santa Cruz police Dept can handle kill a lot more.
The bum clone literally stood on the beach for a day with no scissors. Once every clone killed their counterpart they stood in line holding hands. Like sitting ducks
Also if the clones donwstairs mimic their upstairs counterparts, like eating and riding roller coasters, shouldn't Red be acting like she's handcuffed to a bed? Also Adelaide couldnt just run up the escalator? There was literally no door.
Again, like Signs, there are major plotholes (spoiler: aliens allergic to water but attacking a planet teeming with water, able to travel vast distances of space but can't open a door, etc) but I guess it's a trade off to making the point that people can be better than the class they are stuck in. Also you are what you make of yourself.
Also where the fuck did they get thousands of perfectly fitted overalls?
To me, as a lifelong horror fan, I wish the family would have been a lot more injured. I didn't have that, "man they barely survived" feeling I do with pretty much all other home invasion movies and I personally would have enjoyed the movie more if it had that.
Anyone else notice that when they were eating together early in the movie, Adelaide is only eating strawberries and drinking water, while the rest of the family is eating fast food and drinking soda?
It's a little detail that adds to her character. I don't blame someone who had to subsist on raw rabbit from becoming vegetarian.
Ooof i wouldn't go that far but yeah it was pretty stupid. Long ass exposition near the back half for NO REASON and then the blinking recreation of the carnival except underground was just plain dumb. It doesn't explain wtf they were stabbing people if they're just mirror images. PLUS the stakes of the hands across the world thing was nonexistent. Why?? I was glad I went with a raucously loud crowd cause I would've been bored as shit and legit upset by the end of it.
The questions raised on the idea of "good" vs "bad" are located throughout and I would love to rewatch it with this lens in mind. Although an obvious "twist" that the mother was switched with the shadow, I have found myself grappling with that whole situation. Yes, it was fucked up what the young shadow Lupita did. But her doing that allowed her the opportunity to live above ground and get a normal life that she otherwise never would have been able to do ever. She and her people were completely ignored by society, and her doing an undeniably fucked up thing was her only way of getting out of an undeniably fucked situation. Otherwise she would have been damned to eat bloody bunnies forever. It is hard to be completely unsympathetic to her situation. With that said, once she got out, she turned her back on her people. She could have told the world about the suffering of the shadow people and tried to get them help but instead she decided not to risk her awesome new status. She is no longer Jenny from the block.
Except she never had to do that, and is acting like a super villain during the act. She likes what she did to her real double, switching fates like that. When the two meet she just attacks and locks the original up then leaves her in hell with no exit to get out. When they could have talked, and she could have asked to come with the girl's family. As she grew older she became more human and as a nice person, but she never regretted doing that and showed no sympathy for why her original would want revenge or try to find peace between the two worlds. Deep down she was still a monster.
Except she never had to do that, and is acting like a super villain during the act. She likes what she did to her real double, switching fates like that. When the two meet she just attacks and locks the original up then leaves her in hell with no exit to get out. When they could have talked, and she could have asked to come with the girl's family. As she grew older she became more human and as a nice person, but she never regretted doing that and showed no sympathy for why her original would want revenge or try to find peace between the two worlds. Deep down she was still a monster.
I don't know that she "likes" what she did. If she had just left on her own, then what? She would have been a homeless unable to speak or communicate. If she tries to join the family there is a chance she isn't accepted and is given to social services, or government scientists because the whole idea of the tethered is weird. Locking up the original was the safest bet for her to get out and live a "normal" life. The analogy the film seems to be going for is someone leaving their current low economic position and getting to that good life, stepping on heads to get there. Shit, look at the real life stories of billionaires and all the immoral shit that had to do to get to where they are now.
The most fucked up thing, to me, is that she never went back to help her people. The movie appears to raise the question "does everyone have a responsibility to help their fellow human? Do those who get out of poverty hold a responsibility to help those still stuck?" The whole Hands Across America thing seemed to be Peele smacking the audience across the face with this.
AGREE on all points. I look forward to Peeles next project.This movie committed the cardinal horror movie sin of fully exposing the main villain(s) to the audience and thus sapping them of their scariness...but it did it what felt like 30 minutes into the movie. Most horror movies try to prolong their tension period for as long as possible, so on a basic horror movie level, Us failed for me. However, my understanding of the movie as a classic exercise in horror was recalibrated around the time that Lupita's (not -) clone dropped her big exposition dump in Forrest Whittaker's Bor Gullet voice, as her husband's clone made guttural Lurch noises.
It's clearly more than a boilerplate horror movie though. Its foray into action comedy at Tim Heidecker's house was like Shaun of the Dead meets American Psycho. Walking that knife's edge between horror and comedy ultmately proved too precarious for me, but I was still entertained enough to see it through to the end.
Much has been made about the film's political agenda or lack thereof, and I can see the arguments on either side, but the whole conceit is too literal for my tastes and opens the film's internal logic up to scrutiny, much like A Quiet Place.
What a fantastic opening, though. I was onboard as hell until They broke into the house. The awesome title theme set to the glacial shot of the rabbits; the evocative period stylings; the eerie atmosphere of the promenade; the creepy hall of mirrors. Such a bold mission statement that sadly didn't follow through to greatness for me.
Get Out is clearly the much superior work. But Us doesn't fully signal a sophomore slump or a Shyamalan-style fall from grace so I'm intrigued to see more from Peele.
Now I'm thinking about it, the metaphor goes both ways, it shows that those who want to murder the billionaires in revenge don't have the moral high ground and are monsters themselves.
Still, 5 bags of popcorn and two sodas
...The song above played during such an amazing moment. Reminded me of Hereditary in that the music worked in concert with the footage to lift the scene into something that really sticks with you.
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VVitch destroyed that cardinal sin. I like the idea of showing that cards early. Pretty much says yeah this is real and there will be no cop outsThis movie committed the cardinal horror movie sin of fully exposing the main villain(s) to the audience and thus sapping them of their scariness...but it did it what felt like 30 minutes into the movie. Most horror movies try to prolong their tension period for as long as possible, so on a basic horror movie level, Us failed for me. However, my understanding of the movie as a classic exercise in horror was recalibrated around the time that Lupita's (not -) clone dropped her big exposition dump in Forrest Whittaker's Bor Gullet voice, as her husband's clone made guttural Lurch noises.
It's clearly more than a boilerplate horror movie though. Its foray into action comedy at Tim Heidecker's house was like Shaun of the Dead meets American Psycho. Walking that knife's edge between horror and comedy ultmately proved too precarious for me, but I was still entertained enough to see it through to the end.
Much has been made about the film's political agenda or lack thereof, and I can see the arguments on either side, but the whole conceit is too literal for my tastes and opens the film's internal logic up to scrutiny, much like A Quiet Place.
What a fantastic opening, though. I was onboard as hell until They broke into the house. The awesome title theme set to the glacial shot of the rabbits; the evocative period stylings; the eerie atmosphere of the promenade; the creepy hall of mirrors. Such a bold mission statement that sadly didn't follow through to greatness for me.
Get Out is clearly the much superior work. But Us doesn't fully signal a sophomore slump or a Shyamalan-style fall from grace so I'm intrigued to see more from Peele.