This creepy thriller called Us hits theatres today but I had the opportunity to go see
the opening screening of it last night.
Welcome back to Beyond The Screen, I’m your host joce and I’m here to give you guys
my HONEST review of the movie.
Let me start off with saying….
What the hell did I just watch?
*intro* For real guys, after the movie ended I just
sat there in complete shock and confusion trying to piece together the crazy shit that
went down in this movie.
The Director Jordan Peele returned to the big screen after his thriller Get Out, in
2017, was such a success.
His first movie focused on the subject of race, whereas his new one, Us, focuses on
the simple fact that we are our own worst enemies.
And booyyyyy did he do a good job at showing that.
Before I jump into the movie plot I want to say WOW; the acting in this movie nothing
less than incredible.
Seriously; I was so impressed.
This movie was also nothing short of a puzzle, let me tell you I was trying my damn hardest
to put all the pieces together.
But what I really liked was that it didn’t ask for solutions; instead, it looked for
interpretations.
The movie and message could be interpreted in many different ways which is what I really
liked about it.
The story is about a woman named Adelaide, her husband, and their two children who return
to the beachfront home where she grew up as a child.
The beach reminds her of a traumatic experience from her past and she starts to sense that
something bad is going to happen.
Her senses soon become a reality when four masked strangers descend upon her house forcing
her and her family to fight for their survival.
The trailer is what originally gave us all the creeps when we see these strangers take
off their masks and realize that each one takes the appearance of one of them.
I’m talking the exact same appearance, like their clone or something.
The whole movie I was trying to figure out how exactly the doubles work.
After seeing the trailer, we were left with the question of “how”.
How are there doubles of the same people; it’s not humanly possible.
Well, don’t worry guys; the movie explains everything.
I don’t want to spoil it by giving away the details but just know that there are in
fact doubles, clones, and let’s just say there’s more than just the family you see
in the trailer.
But it’s actually the “why” of the movie that is far more interesting.
Who are these people?
And why are they trying to kill them?
The whole concept of the movie is inspired by the real 1986 benefit event “Hands Across
America”.
If you aren’t familiar with the benefit; it was a benefit event and publicity campaign
staged on Sunday, May 25th, 1986 in which approximately 6.5 million people held hands
in a human chain for 15 minutes along a path across the United States.
People donated 10$ to reserve their place in line and the proceeds were donated to charities
to fight hunger and homelessness and help those in poverty.
The actual benefit was heartwarming; but this movie gave it a more serious and very disturbing
twist.
Throughout the official trailer we saw that the doubles carry big scissors with them,
which I thought was a strange choice of weapon.
But the scissors are in fact used for more than just a weapon and actually represent
the craft that schools often use scissors for to cut a chain-link of people holding
hands.
You do see this in the trailer, but you probably didn’t catch it.
I didn’t put the two-together until after I saw the movie.
But I thought the representation of the scissors was really cool, and the movie is actually
filled with a lot of hidden meanings.
As the movie goes in it explains the different meanings of things and every one of them had
me in some form of shock.
You have to be really creative to put together something as creative and well thought-out
as this.
So the whole movie is basically an epic battle between the humans and their doubles and I
quickly realized the only way to survive this was by killing them.
These doubles aren’t just regular people though who decided to dress up like someone
else; they actually don’t have souls, which is a key part to the story.
The trailer first showed us that the creepy doubles were all wearing the same red uniform
and I didn’t think much of it; but the deeper meaning of the movie shows that it’s more
terrifying being in uniform than having indivuality like humans do.
It suggests that maybe our individuality is all just an illusion and that there’s nothing
special about it since we’re all just humans.
The movie is dark, I’m not going to lie to you.
I went into it thinking it was just another scary movie but there’s a lot of deeper
meanings that I’m still trying to wrap my head around.
And it’s CREEPY.
Very creepy.
Mainly because you’re sitting there wondering how this is happening, but then you’re left
with wondering, what if it actually happens.
And yes, I did jump a few times so brace yourself for things to randomly scare the daylights
out of you.
The final scene of the movie explains the very first scene of the movie.
So if you’re sitting there wondering about what exactly happened in the first scene,
wait for the ending.
But if I’m being honest the ending really messed with my head.
Because as the movie was coming to an end I really thought I had the whole thing figured
out.
I was confident that I had pieced it all together and all its hidden messages.
But then the last 30 seconds of the movie changes EVERYTHING you just watched; I was
left completely mind blown and then I had to start my thinking process all over again.
Don’t worry; I’m not going to spoil it for you.
But if there’s one thing I can say it’s … if you think you’ve figured it all out,
just know, you haven’t.
Director Jordan Peele did an incredible job; he had me spending the rest of my night trying
to interpret the message he was clearly trying to show.
The movie officially comes to theatres today; I totally recommend going to see it.
If you do, did you enjoy it?
Let me know in the comments all your thoughts and reviews.
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