Us Review: Scary Fun for the Whole (Doppel)gang

Us Review – A Horror Film for the Records

Jordan Peele’s movie US took a different path from his previous movie Get Out. The movie focuses on the Wilson family. They went on a fateful vacation to Santa Cruz. The vacation turned sour when a family that looked identical to them decided to haunt their holiday adventure. Check out this Us review for the latest on this ground-breaking film.

The nightmare, which later escalated, started when the mother was a little girl. Mother Adelaide went on a trip with her family in 1986. She wandered away from her father who was playing a game of ‘Whac-a-mole,’ into a fun house that said ‘find yourself’ on the exterior.  She got into the shack, which had a mirrored hall. She nervously whistled itsy-bitsy spider, and to her utmost surprise, she witnessed a mirror image of herself who whispered the tune back. This experience initiated the nightmare that would be established seven years later, which takes place in this film.  Be wary; this Us review may leave you too scared to see the movie.

Adelaide Wilson, now a mother of two children, Zora and Jason, with her husband Gabe Wilson travel back to Santa Cruz for a vacation. Though she’s still disturbed about her childhood incident and that damn itsy-bitsy bitch, her attachment to the 1981 encounter further exposes her to the doppelganger. Adelaide is still afraid of going back to the beach because of this previous experience. Adelaide warned her husband of the impending doom, but she’s not taken seriously by her husband who is battling with jealousy of the Tylers, who are a bit richer, more flamboyant, and financially attractive. A bunch of scum bugs, if you ask me. Her consistent plea to leave the town is almost getting to her husband when the movie begins its ascent to the climax. Prepare as our Us review gets into the nitty gritty details.

If You Want Crazy, Let’s Get Crazy: Us Review

We can all agree that the movie became more interesting when ‘they got crazy!’At this point, the doppelgangers of the Wilson family showed up in their driveway at night, entirely dressed in red, with pairs of scissors as weapons. The plot twist was not explained until the end of the movie when we were made to understand that the enemy is actually who we may have been expecting. Obviously, when Adelaide went into the fun house as a little girl, she never came out. Her doppelganger was the individual that came out of the house in 1986, and then this “creature” replaced the real Adelaide in her normal life. The reason why “Adelaide” is unable to speak, is due to the fact that it is really her doppelganger. The whole movie, with its twists and turns, leaves the viewers with more questions than answers. Regardless, the film hits close to home and leaves the viewer with a distinct impression of horror and mystery.

Us Review – Details

The movie, as many have claimed, is not as neat and well presented as Get Out may have been. In my own opinion, I felt as if Us was a too cloudy of a horror film; too many questions were left for the audience to try and answer. Placing it side by side with Get Out, I hate to admit that the plot is messy and illogical. That aside, the movie hit its mark as a symbolic cinematic project, mirroring events in the US in times past and present.

The fact that the movie is named Us, which can be a pronoun or an acronym for the United States, speaks volumes about the writer’s intention of addressing the ills of society, using the US as an analogy. Just in the United States, lives of different people and of different classes are constantly fighting to be acknowledged in a specific manner. Our Us review attempts to address the messages that Peele is trying to portray in his film. Many of these personas that embody the truth of the individuals are shut out of sight, and out of mind. Jordan Peele, as the writer and director, pays significant attention to previous works and prior historical events. The movie is brilliantly arranged from the beginning to give hints on the impending doom, and to also give subtle explanations to events that occur in the film. The reference to Jeremiah 11:11 can be interpreted in different ways; condemning people who forget their origin and as a result receive unpardonable punishment, and can also be said to symbolize the disaster waiting to happen both in the movie and in society of imbalances are not corrected.

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The review of Us considers also the innovation produced by the comedian and director. Peele is definitely making his own mark as an intelligent writer and artist by going this far into the dark topics of American history and current American endeavors. We all live in fear of enemies and disasters that may happen to us in life, but the thought of the enemy being us (whether it be the real us or an identical version of ourselves) is chilling and nightmarish. I can bet that Jordan Peele sits in his studio with a bottle of cold beer in hand and laughs at people’s confusion and reaction to his work. Everyone is confused, but everyone is simultaneously impressed. How can appreciate what you cannot understand? Believe, Jordan Peele is the only person that could pull of the entirety of this cinematic masterpiece.

A character that holds everything together and upgrades the extreme nature of the movie is Lupita Nyon’go (playing Adelaide). I strongly believe that there is not a single viewer that leaves the theatre without being impressed by her performance. The way she is able to portray two opposite characters with one face, and even two voices is just amazing! If she hadn’t done such a great a job of her acting, the movie would not be half as appreciated as it currently is. The Us review considers her to be of primary importance and significance within the film. Her characters, Adelaide and her doppelganger, portray women with scars and deep-seated fears. Winston Duke also deserves significant credit, providing an added factor of humor to the scary plot. As Gabe, he represents a normal middle-class father with his adoring attitude, and as a doppelganger, he emits pure evil.

Us Review – Conclusion

There are many unanswered questions about the movie by our Us review like: why did Adelaide even agree to a vacation anywhere close to Santa Cruz, knowing what happened in 1986? What are the motives of the doppelgangers? And for god sake, can Peele please be more explicit about how they came to be? But then, I am going to join the legion of people going back to the cinema to see this movie. Don’t ask why because even I don’t know!

Us and our Us review has been a pleasure to view and write; be sure to check out this popular movie and see for yourself what Peele’s cinematic masterpiece has to offer.