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Mar 23, 2019 · Richard Brody reviews the horror movie “Us,” written and directed by Jordan Peele and starring Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, and Elisabeth Moss.
Mar 20, 2019 · Peele wants us to talk, and he’s given audiences the material to think, to feel our way through some of the darker sides of the human condition and the American experience. This review was originally filed from the South by Southwest Film Festival on March 9, 2019.
Mar 20, 2019 · March 20, 2019. Jordan Peele’s new horror movie, “Us,” is an expansive philosophical hall of mirrors. Like his 2017 hit, “Get Out,” this daring fun-until-it’s-not shocker starts from the...
- Jordan Peele
- Manohla Dargis
- 116 min
- Can You Clarify Exactly What The “Tethered” Are?
- Who Created The Tethered?
- What Are The Tethered A Metaphor for?
- Us Also Means The U.S., Right?
- Do The Tethered Exist Across The World?
- What Was Hands Across America? and Why Is It A Theme of The Movie?
- Why Scissors?
- Why The Red Jump Suits and Single Gloves?
- Jeremiah 11: 11
- What’s with The Rabbits?
(Photo by @ Universal) Who the Tethered are is explained, to some extent at least, in two key moments in the movie. There is the fireside chat, in which Red, Adelaide’s double/Tethered, answers Gabe’s (Winston Duke) question, “What are you people?” with a “Once upon a time…” tale that reveals that an entity called “they” created the doubles by clon...
It’s never made explicitly clear who exactly created the Tethered, and the “why” – to control the above-ground population – is not really fleshed out. We only hear the creators referred to as “they.” Most theorists believe it’s the government. Not only does the below-ground facility we visit in the film’s climax look and feel government-y, but ther...
(Photo by @ Universal) It’s there in the title:us. The obvious point being made in Us is that we are our own worst enemy, so “watch yourself.” Peele said as much in a Q&A following the movie’s premiere at South by Southwest, and elaborated in an interview with the Guardian. “We are our own worst enemy, not just as individuals but more importantly a...
Bingo. When asked “What are you people?,” Red answers “We’re Americans” in a line that has been singled out by some critics as being perhaps a bit too on-the-nose. Multiple points seem to be being made here: That the Tethered are Americans, just like us; and that these are our “fellow Americans” who’ve been living this way (just like it’s your fell...
That remains to be seen, but there are suggestions throughout the film that this is a uniquely American phenomenon. There’s Red’s line, “We’re Americans,” and also the overarching theme of “Hands Across America.” Most tellingly, though, is that Adelaide’s plan of escape is to drive along the coast and get to Mexico. Does she know, as a former Tethe...
(Photo by @ Universal) This weekend, Hands Across America is the most highly trafficked Wikipedia page in the world (we presume). But back in 1986, it was a charity event and campaign that was staged on Sunday May 25, that saw some 6.5 million people hold hands and form a human chain across the country (from sea to shining sea, as it says in the ad...
Paper dolls were a big deal around the time of Hands Across America – a few quick snips and you could create a optimistic little piece of craft that spoke to a unified country – and an idea that Adelaide held onto when she was dragged into the underground facility. We see her cutting paper dolls towards the end of the movie, standing by a blackboar...
(Photo by @ Universal) This is pure speculation, as no one has come out and explained the significance of the jump suits or the gloves – or how the Tethered got a hold of so many suits, gloves, and gold scissors for that matter. (Amazon Prime is everywhere.) But a number of online theories suggest the influence of Michael Jackson in the costume cho...
If you, like us, Googled “Jeremiah 11:11” the moment the Us credits rolled, you, like us, probably thought: well, yep, that makes sense. The verse reads: “Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me I will not hearken unto them.” A terrifying evil unle...
When we asked Peele about the rabbits at the Us premiere, he said it was simply that rabbits were scary: “You can tell in their eyes, they have the brain of a sociopath.” But there’s more going on here, we think. There is, of course, some serious Alice in Wonderland vibes – young girl follows white rabbit into another world. But then there is also ...
Mar 9, 2019 · Get Out is a startling, frightening film, but it’s also meticulously crafted to make the audience politically and socially uncomfortable, with a candid, unflinching message about how black and...
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- Tasha Robinson
Mar 9, 2019 · Film Review: Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’. Comedian-turned-horror-maestro Jordan Peele veers farther into the dark recesses of America's collective id, implicating us as our own worst...
Mar 24, 2019 · Us review – a terrific horror tale from Jordan Peele. The Get Out writer-director splices sociopolitical satire with clever, full-blooded chills. Mark Kermode. Sun 24 Mar 2019 04.00 EDT. “W...
