![]() ![]() I love the creativity that this film has to offer and I love that this film can create a concept and a universe that feels like it would be potentially terrifying to inhabit. I’m really happy that we are able to get original ideas like this still out in theaters, and I’m glad that many people are actually coming out to support these flicks. This is a film that has so much strange elements to it that I cannot help but love and further recommend you check out. I love this film as it’s a fun, suspenseful horror flick with some great themes and satire. In other words, the Adelaide we have been following the whole time is actually the former doppelganger from below all along. We then see a flashback in which it turns out at the beach the day young Adelaide came across her young look a like self at the hall of mirrors, the doppelganger chokes Adelaide, damaging her vocal chords and forcing her underground. After Adelaide and Red fight each other, with Adelaide stabbing Red winning the fight, she leaves the underground with her son. If you don’t know, the Hands Across America event was one in which people all across the country joined hands with each other to make one big line across the entire country from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean in an effort to support the end of hunger in Africa. They also re-create the Hands Across America protest from the 1980’s to symbolize their new dominance over the country. In retaliation, she plans on killing everyone and starting their own society above ground. It is at this moment that we find out that Red explains that there is a whole society of people like her down below who mimic their actions from up above, but never get to go up there. They are able to escape but are stopped when Red captures Jason, their son, and takes him into the underground where they all reside. Luckily, the family is able to escape their home, but when they try to go to their friends’ house for help, a family with a father played by Tim Heidecker and a mother played by Elizabeth Moss, they find that the doppelganger of their family has already murdered them, which leads them to more danger. The version of Adelaide, Red, that seemed to traumatize her is now in front of her face again as she had predicted would happen. The film then cuts as the family is outside trying to get in so they can murder them. In the film, we see she is nervous the entire time while there because she seems to remember an incident that scarred her for life at the beach. Years later, she’s grown up, had a family, and they suggest that they take a vacation to Santa Cruz every summer. But when the mother leaves to go to the bathroom and the father plays another carnival game, neglecting to keep an eye on his daughter, she wanders off to the beach below where she finds a hall of mirrors in which she comes across a version of herself who seemingly “traumatizes” her leaving her unable to speak. This clearly frustrates the mother as he is paying little to no attention to the daughter. She is with her mother and father, and the father seems to be drunk and playing many carnival games. The film starts off as we see Lupita N’yongo’s character, Adelaide, as a young child at a fair at Santa Cruz in 1986. ![]() SPOILERS AHEAD! DO NOT READ PAST THIS POINT IF YOU DO NOT WANT THE FILM SPOILED FOR YOU! Not only because I wanted to talk about the themes of what this film has to offer, which does intrigue me, but also because I want to talk about the elements of this film that frustrated me and caused me to not enjoy it nearly as much the second time around. In order to really discuss this film in full detail, I need to do an analysis instead. It wasn’t any issues with the film making really, I just found some plot holes and other inconsistencies with the film that didn’t make sense for me. I will say, however, that I after I had the chance to view this film again, there were many issues I found throughout this film that seemed to negatively affect my experience the second time watching it. I think this film is super weird, fun, and suspenseful and it’s a great time at the movies. My short recommendation for this movie is that you should at least see it at some point if you are interested. I chose not to do a regular review for this one. The film then turns into a story of survival as the family must escape Santa Cruz alive, while also stopping the doppelganger family from following them. It tells the story of a family that goes on vacation to Santa Cruz, only to have their vacation cut short when they find a strange doppelganger family in their backyard, attempting to terrorize them and murder them. Us is directed and written by Jordan Peele who wrote and directed 2017’s Get Out and stars Lupita N’yongo, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, and Tim Heidecker. Us is a pretty great sci-fi/horror film that’s worthy of the recent buzz. ![]()
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