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How do you follow a behemoth of pop culture like Get Out? After not only demolishing the box office, but also winning a scenario to the screenplay, Jordan Peele is ready to haunt our collective nightmares with us again, while proving that he is the perfect guy to revive The Twilight Zone.
Like the best episodes of Twilight Zone, Us has both twists and comments. Jordan Peele has already stated that he was not going to shoot another film about the race. Also, for his second film, he broadens his field of action and attacks all over the United States in a movie that asks us to look in ourselves and see the danger that we have ourselves. to become. To this end, we begin with a prologue established in 1986, where a young Adelaide Wilson (Madison Curry) watches an advertisement for Hands Across America – a campaign to create a human chain across the American continent – before stumbling into a room . mirrors under a jetty of Santa Cruz. She finds more than mere reflections, an event that traumatizes her.
Some 30 years later, the burden of this encounter still haunts Adélaïde (Lupita Nyong & # 39; o) adult, who returns to Santa Cruz with her husband Gabe (Winston Duke) and their children Zora (Shahadi Wright Joseph) and Jason (Evan Alex). for the summer. Jordan Peele shows that he is able to write compelling and fully trained characters because he makes you immediately love this family. Of course, they are not perfect. Gabe is clumsy and has countless jokes for daddy ("You do not need the internet, you have the network!"), And the children are constantly arguing, but you feel the love that unites them. Adélaine has a bad feeling about this trip and a series of strange coincidences will not help her to ease her worries.
After a trip to the beach with friends Kitty (Elisabeth Moss) and Josh (Tim Heidecker), the Wilson return home in search of four dark characters standing in their driveway. This is the doppelgänger seen in the trailers, wearing a glaucous red suit and gloves, and very sharp scissors. Lupita's horrified view is the latest example of what should be called the 'black look', as iconic as the hypnotized and mesmerized Daniel Kaluuya's Get Out.
If Get Out was a victim of the question "Is this really a horror?", Jordan Peele made sure we would not fear the same turn. This is a horror movie that has many references from Friday the 13th and the Night of the Living Dead to more recent recipes like Black Swan. As in Hereditary last year, the best surprises come from just being able to glimpse something in the dark corners of the screen. The home invasion sequences will make you want to cover your eyes, but the know-how at your fingertips will keep you from looking away. However, Peele does not hesitate to make you laugh, with a perfectly balanced mix of horror and humor that does not feel out of place. Winston Duke brings in particular a necessary lightness to the film, with its rather narrative and friendly nerdy sense of humor to make you stop thinking of him as that of Black Panther. Peele excels not only in mixing horror and humor, but also in writing intelligent characters. As in Get Out, the Wilson are quick to react to the scary silhouettes of their driveway and immediately call the police to start planning their confrontation.
Visually, Us is already a candidate for the most beautiful horror film of 2019, mainly thanks to the director of photography Mike Gioulakis, responsible for the amazing film It Follows. Gioulakis' camera swirls, crawls and chases the characters almost as much as their Doppelganger counterparts, and his use of light and shadows is as effective as any fear of jumping. The score of Get Out composer Michael Abels will haunt your nightmares for the coming days, while recalling Jerry Goldsmith's score for The Omen, except without the demonic child.
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Winston Duke may be a surprisingly convincing and likable father, and the kids are fantastic when they play at one innocent time and quite evil at the next, but we work as well as because of one person: Lupita Nyong ' o. Although we won an Oscar six years ago, we hardly got to know its scope, although between it and Little Monsters, we were definitely living in the year of Lupita. She plays all the emotions of the book and every muscle in her body is used to convey these emotions. Watching her play the dual role (like the rest of the family) of her usual self and her crazy and perverse counterpart is lovely and terrifying to see, a performance comparable to that of Toni Collette in Hereditary. In a fair world, Nyong'o would get his second Oscar nomination with this film.
Like Get Out, it's easy and worthwhile to appreciate ourselves literally, as the film offers enough chills, laughter and scare to deserve all the praise. But here we are talking about Jordan Peele, so the script is filled with metaphors and small details that require many views to even begin to capture the intention of the director. The main theme that emerges from the film is the apathy and rejection of the disadvantaged in the United States (it is no coincidence that the title of the film is written in US). However, when the film presents an exhibition on the public and explains what the doppelgängers want, the logic of the film begins to fade a little. Peele is not interested in spelling, but it reveals holes in the story that could make you lose your mind as soon as you start thinking about the motives and the meaning of certain images and actions.
Despite some dubious choices, it is undeniable that Jordan Peele avoided the "second year crisis" and emerged as one of the great contemporary minds of horror. We are not only a brilliant exploration of current America, but also a hellish prologue of Peele's reboot, The Twilight Zone.
| Good | The bad |
|---|---|
| Lupita Nyong'o takes on two roles | The script crumbles a little bit towards the |
| Winston Duke plays the daddy you've always wanted | Slightly predictable |
| Intelligent characters who act credibly in terrifying situations | Not being able to sleep because of nightmares induced by us |
| Beautiful cinematography and mesmerizing score | |
| Layer on detail layer that you want to discover |