You know what's funny is that right now the Internet is kind of, I don't know all
over the place on this one. I mean a lot of the reviewers I love on YouTube are
saying things that it was just a cluttered mess. I completely disagree I
mean any kind of art whether it's a painting a book a novel it's basically
what you as a person are taking from it. that's kind of where you assess quality.
and of course because of that metric things that are complete garbage are still
capable of being appreciated on both levels. troll 2 is one of my favorite
movies and it's horrendous I can admit that. obviously different people enjoy
different things some people like Larry the Cable Guy and some people like
incredibly deep meaningful esoteric journeys like the holy mountain. us to me
is incredibly accessible horror comedy. yeah I want to say because it is
absolutely hilarious at the same time Jordan Peele he's becoming just a master
craftsman at understanding exactly how he wants his movies to look and feel. for
me get out was an awesome film I liked it it wasn't really scary unfortunately.
maybe that's because I'm a horrid junky and I'm so desensitized to this kind of
stuff. but it didn't really frighten me I did love the idea of progressive white
people being the monsters in a movie. I mean that was awesome. and it was also
hilarious which is something that obviously Jordan Peele is very adept at
what he is now a master at though is weaving hilarity and horror in a way
that I've never seen before. that's one of the things about us that was just so
stunning to me and this maybe isn't as important to other people. maybe people
who aren't you know huge fans of comedy as I am. I mean it's probably one of my
favorite things on the earth. or just the human experience. laughter and making
people laugh. so for me for him to do this to blend to I mean their scenes in
this movie that are incredibly frightening and tense and simultaneously
hilarious. sometimes in the same sentences. like characters will be
scaring you and then making you burst out laughing and then go right back to
the scaring the shit out of you. [Dad talking] I thought I told y'all to get off my property. okay so if y'all
want to get crazy we can get crazy. not a cop's already on day way.
hey-hey-hey-hey-hey!
and it was really cool seeing this in the theater. I recommend doing it I mean
obviously a lot of people are it just broke the record of the the largest
horror film debut in history. but there's something to be said about being in a
room full of people who all burst out laughing and then simultaneously scream.
and then sell it easily shudder and then burst out laughing again I mean that was
something that was really cool for someone who wasn't as blown away by get
out. I guess as everyone else was but still really enjoyed it I was blown away
by this one unlike other reviews we're not gonna go too deep into the
cinematography or the costume design or the set design that will say all three
are fantastic. the soundtrack is amazing I think Jordan Peele has really found a
muse in Michael Abel's. which is really cool because at the end of the day he
found him on YouTube. yeah this is the second film that Michael Able's has
scored for him the first being get out. of course and both have been fantastic
soundtracks it's got these cool little haunting notes that are very reminiscent
of ghost in the shell' or Akira. and yeah it really complements the film I'm
not entirely sure and someone please let me know in the comments what language
the opening is being spoken in what they sound like to me is variations on do la
re fa so la se to. which is solemnization but I could be
wrong about that so if it is something else please let me know in the comment.
and I also won't be talking too much about the acting I will say this Lupita
Nyong'o I knew she was a great actor. obviously 12 years of slave was
sensational and I think she deserved the Academy Award for that
I think this performance is even better. to be honest with you it was stunning
there were times when I was simultaneously horrified and terrified
for the same person in the same scene and then vice versa. which of course is
what this movie does it's about dualities and you know switching
perceptions. and it was just a spellbinding to watch her work and play
two characters back-to-back I mean everyone has to play two characters in
this movie and some people do it to much greater degrees in others. and even the
child actors in this were really entertaining they were good they were
believable I was rarely pulled out of the film because I thought they weren't
acting correctly. but yeah Lupita Bravo that was just stunning the reason the
tethered works so well as both a metaphor for the class system and
further back the feudal system as well as the problem of the immigration crisis
especially the United States is that they are coming to literally take your
lives let's not just take your jobs. it's to take your life they want to take what
is yours they want to get your possessions they want your glasses your
lipstick whatever you have the fineries and the bourgeois decadence that you
enjoy. they are rising up to steal from you in this revolution of sorts and in
that end networks is a very effective metaphor. all right so we're gonna enter
spoiler territory for the next little while folks if you don't want the movie
spoiled for you and you really shouldn't because at the end of the day it has
some fantastic surprises in store you've been warned three two one go.
now if you were wondering why exactly they were all grabbing hands through the
end of the movie I'm pretty sure you got the Hands Across America message. for
those of you too young to understand what Hands Across America was it was a
benefit in the flew the city event it's staged around 1986 and there was
approximately six and a half million people who held hands and its large
human chain for about 15 minutes. and you know what many of the participants also
donated money to stand in mind proceeds were donated to local charities to help
fight hunger and help those in poverty and it's a bit of a facade because at
the end of the day while they raise thirty four million dollars they only
really distributed about fifty million dollars after all the operational costs
were deducted. the whole thing was kind of a macrocosm for what funding has seen
in both the United States and the rest of the world actually does. unfortunately
a lot of it is a huge money generation for nonprofit entities it'll shock you
to learn how many nonprofit entities such as Big Brothers or other
organizations actually earned at the top levels. their CEOs are still paid in the
hundreds of thousands of dollars and the reason for that being is that in order
to hire competitive CEOs from other companies or these organizations they
have to pay them competitive rates and that is something that shocks a lot of
people when they find out for the first time. that these programs where all the
good intentions they may have there's still huge money generating machines for
a small select amount of people. and it's pretty interesting that Jordan Peele
actually come out and say that the original commercial for Hands Across
America when he saw it for the first time recently on the Internet
was struck by how frightening it actually was. and that was actually some
of the basis for wanting to create this entire film in the first place. like I
said earlier anything that Jordan Peele kind of does at this point because he's
now I don't know pigeonholes himself into this intelligent horror but
mainstream horror at the same time director writer. he's going to probably
have to have these two things whenever he makes a movie. and I mean I'd be awesome if you put yourself out
at one point and just makes a completely pointless film just to troll everyo.ne
who know. things that he has to do this every time. but Jordan peels new movie is
about class systems. it's about the class warfare classism. if you willed probably
in this day and age set up by capitalism. but in other times obviously set up my
feudalism between the poor and the rich. the haves and the have-nots beyond the
class systems and the class warfare the entire film is obviously about duality. I
mean the name of the movie is us. it also stands for U.S. The tethered refers to
themselves as Americans the prejudice and the fear that people exhibit towards
the tethered and by extension the other in real life is really an American
phenomenon from this point of view of this film however it is also a global
phenomenon when it comes to countries all around the world voting in more
extreme right-wing governments. there's a lot of other forms of duality in the
film of course the scissors of the tethered what is a scissor it is a
pair of two blades that have been connected tethered if you will. Michael
Jackson the the shirt popping up and Michael Jackson of course is a very ...he
was both black and then white because vitiligo he is both considered a genius
and a monster. when the tethered finally start the revolution and they come above
ground and they start murdering all their copies the first thing a lot of
them do is usually try to take the possessions. or the life of their
previous masters so they will take the lipstick and put the lipstick on they'll
take the glasses and put the glasses. on the you know consumer items of a better
life are the first things they go for and they want the the you know all the
fineries in excess that these I guess others to them have had their entire
lives the tether because they're mirroring exactly what their masters do
are aware of a lot of the activities of their masters.
above ground however they're not allowed to experience any of the joy or
pleasures from them they can only experience the pain. ultimately a lot of
this has to do with the way we treat other people I mean we think of certain
groups of people sometimes as monstrous whether it be people you consider
invading immigrants caravans if you will of Soros funded people marching towards
the border and take jobs and become plans for future Democratic voters. we
think of these people and then the media really helps project this imagery as
villainous almost as monstrous and at the end of the day they're human beings
just like us. and the only way that we can ever truly treat someone poor these
two dehumanize them when a God wouldn't law for a second here but it was done by
the Nazis. and this all ties into the twists of the film the main character
Adelaide Wilson was in fact one of the tethered her entire life had switched
places with the young antagonist of the film showing that you are in fact the
exact same as the one you vilify as the other then you can grow up and perverted
and twisted Trading Places is hilarious and frightening at the same time.