Us (2019)

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Genre: Horror, Mystery And Thriller

Director: Jordan Peele

Producer: Jordan Peele, Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Ian Cooper

Writer: Jordan Peele

Rating: R (Violence/Terror|Language)

Original Language: English

Release Date (Theaters): Mar 22, 2019  Wide

Box Office (Gross USA): $175.0M

Duration: 1h 56m

Production Co: Monkeypaw Productions


Us is a psychological thriller written and directed by Jordan Peele. This film was released in 2019. It is starred by Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke and Elizabeth Moss. This film tells the story of a married couple Gabe Wilson (Winston Duke) and Adelaide Wilson (Lupita Nyong'o) taking their two children for a vacation to the beach to have fun. Peele creates a thrilling horror film without a ghost with just a doppelgänger grin.

Plot

The story tells the story of Adelaide (Lupita Nyong'o) and Gabe Wilson (Winston Duke), a married couple who took their children to a coastal home. They go out with their friends, the Tyler family (Tim Heidecker) and is mom, in order to have fun (Elisabeth Moss). When night falls, all the fun shifts. Their calm turned into confusion and stress. Several unknown guests surprisingly came to their residence uninvited. Surprisingly, this group of people had the very same faces as any single person.

Surprisingly, this group of individuals had the exact same faces as each Wilson family member. Even this group of individuals appeared to have talents that average humans did not possess. This group of uninvited guests kills everyone in the city and on the beach, causing havoc all over the city. They have not stopped chasing the Wilson family yet.

Racism Issue

Us have a deep archetypal layer, and the pain lies in the output of Lupita Nyong. It's a dark and scary film, but in a good way. When discussing the idea of the American dream, which Peele does wonderfully, it facilitates reflections on structural injustice, social disparity and the duality of human existence.

As an audience, Peele has our attention, implying that he is able to influence our society. His genius lies in visually translating the experience of oppression, helping us grasp in cinematic terms the attack on the black body. He expands the tradition of experiencing black suffering and questioning the duality of black American life that dates back to the 1896 poem, We Wear The Masks, by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Theory Behind Details

  • The Bible verse that constantly appears in the movie (Jeremiah 11:11) 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."
  • Many main scenes take place on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, much like The Lost Boys (1987). As Adelaide's mother (Anna Diop) says, "You know, they're shooting a movie over there by the carousel." this is also referenced in the universe.
  • A reference to The Shining is the overhead shot of the Wilsons heading to the holiday home, along with the twins' synchronized voice and mannerisms (1980).
  • The name of the unhelpful virtual assistant of the Tylers, Ophelia, ironically derives from the Greek "ophéleia," meaning "help."
  • Jason eats a bowl of dry Froot Loops while the Wilsons are at the Tylers' home. In Jordan Peele's previous film, Get Out (2017), this refers to a scene in which a character eats Froot Loops and drinks milk from "segregated" glasses.
  • The baseball game is at 11-11 tied... And Minnesota is a band. The team from Minnesota is called the Twins.
  • One of the VHS tapes seen near the TV at the beginning of the film is The Man with Two Brains, in line with the film's theme of duality and the notion of two similar parts making up one whole (1983).
  • The name of the kid, Jason, is a nod to the villain of Friday the 13th, Jason, who wears a mask too.
  • It seems that the use of the song I Got 5 On resonates with the film's main theme. It tells of two guys chipping in $5 each to buy a $10 bag of marijuana, which is a mixture of two items making one whole, much like the Tethered themselves, like the scissors and the repetition of number 11 in the movie.

Reference

  1. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/us_2019
  2. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6857112/
  3. http://udreview.com/six-horror-films-that-address-issues-of-systemic-racism-and-oppression/