2019 Directed by Jordan Peele
Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.
Lupita Nyong'o Winston Duke Shahadi Wright Joseph Evan Alex Tim Heidecker Elisabeth Moss Cali Sheldon Noelle Sheldon Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Anna Diop Madison Curry Duke Nicholson Napiera Groves Kara Hayward Lon Gowan Alan Frazier Dustin Ybarra Nathan Harrington Darrel Cherney James Cobb Alessandro Garcia David M Sandoval Jr. Ashley McKoy Jordan Peele
Emeis, Εμεις, Nós
I really, really, really enjoyed this film. But as I left the theatre, I had so many more questions than I entered with, and the more I talked about it with a friend the more I realized that it is a complete inverse of the structure in Get Out (which tightens to a conclusion, as opposed to unraveling as you get more answers) which set me up to be disappointed. My fault!
I’m confused by so much of what happened in this movie and what it means and how certain ideas seemingly conflict with the rules of the world, but I still think I loved it. The only review I saw before watching this movie was K. Austin Collins’ Letterboxd…
US is an audacious & clever trip through the looking glass that asks how Americans are going to live with ourselves after being reminded of who we really are. a lot funnier than it is frightening — a horror movie for a world in which real life is scary enough on its own. Lupitas! that score!
definitely some bumps in the road, but i was sold on its big ideas. anything more will have to wait.
EDIT: bumping this up to ****. the more i read about it / sit with it, the more i like it. seems to be a pattern with Peele's movies.
from the very first image of the cassette tapes next to the TV, to the Japanese ghost-like way a doppelgänger stiltingly scurries across the ground, to the clinical and conspiratorial atmosphere reminiscent of Martyrs, it’s clear that jordan peele LOVES horror. and he’s damn good at it. he’s not the next hitchcock or spielberg or whatever, he IS jordan peele.
with Us, he’s proved that he can and will bring that extra layer of social/political commentary sorely missing from the majority of horror movies. the atrocities of america’s history (and present!) are much, much scarier than anything you can see on screen, and peele knows that, and he uses that. merely by existing in america, we are complicit in the suffering of all…
“what do you want?”
its been over an hour and i can’t think of anything else except whatever this was. simplistically sinister, maybe more comparable to something like the shining instead of get out. i first thought i was somewhat unaffected, but now my mind is clouded with a mild thudding anxiety that won’t go away. this is ridiculously fine tuned to creep under your skin without you noticing. i have to go to sleep now but i doubt i’ll have much success. wish me luck
1000th logged movie!
Some great setups and ideas here, but it’s execution and payoff are pretty absurd at points. Was quite bored with most of the second act.
Even better on a second watch. Pretty much every question I had falls away, the allegory he’s working with is so much clearer, and the beautiful framing/camera movements really stand out when I’m not so focused on following a brand new story. And god, for it all to end with such a sinister use of “Les Fleurs”... a million chef’s kisses. ONE MILLION KISSES, JORDAN!!!!!!!!!
Most of this is just a very good don't get out of the car, hey look behind you movie but Peele has such a well of imagination that he creates this additional tantalizing scenario that absolutely begs for both a more coherent idea to tether it to and also an explanation that would kill the whole movie if it was offered. Tough tightrope, fun movie.
Guys, when the dad is watching baseball, the game is the Giants vs......wait for it...the Minnesota TWINS!
Anyways, felt smart for that, don’t really fully understand the rest of it and I’m really not sure how I feel about that. The minute people realize they can’t stop thinking/talking about a movie and that it has a somewhat obscure ending that requires some thinking to figure it out, they’ll automatically label it as a masterpiece. This is one of those movies, and while it’s undeniably impressive how many ideas and clues Peele is able to juggle and put together in an original script, the execution was also undeniably pretty sloppy, in my opinion. It’s a film we’re all going to be talking…
- HANDSACROSSAMERICA
- The storyline was unexpected!
- That fuckin' ending!, I left the cinema with speechless conditions omfg
- Twisted. Damn!
- That smile tho!
- Creepy.
- a little bit funny and I laugh out loud in some scenes.
- Bunnies
- Lupita Nyong'o's appearance is insane!! Love it!
- The shooting is pretty cool.
- That scoring was really haunted me so much.
- Great Cinematography!
- 11:11
- Merlin's Forest find yourself.
- One soul two bodies.
- "We're Americans"
- Jordan Peele did it again!
Us 📛📛📛
عشان القصة حلوه ومنطقية وشفت كثيير زيها على اساس انها " مستهلكة " دخلت ع الفلم على انه عادي ، بس بعد مشاهدة شرح ل رمزيات الفلم وضَّح لي اشياء م اعطيتها أهمية :
- عشان نوضحها ببساطه ، نقلب الفلم و نبدا نحلل من النهاية وبكذا يكون اسهل ، التويست لي ف نهاية الفلم ان الام الحقيقية هي اللي عاشت ف الانفاق و العكس صحيح هذي تكفي انك تربط كل الأحداث لي صارت من بداية الفلم ، اول حوار صار بين الام الحقيقية و القرين لما قالت لها حطي الكلبش كان رمز وانها جابت ولد بس مش طبيعي والخ.. مقابل هذا كله القرين عاشت حياة كريمة ورزقت ب ولد طبيعي وبنت جميلة وعاشت ف مجتمع طبيعي…
Starts strong but drags on towards the end without giving the viewer a lucid plot to follow
Καταπληκτικη ταινια, ανατριχιαστικη, με σοκαριστικο και καταπληκτικο τελος, γουσταρα γενικα! ❤
This movie is definitely one the most unique films I've seen. There are definitely some creepy moments throughout. The best part of this movie has to be the score. The music in this movie actually builds more tension then what's actually going on in the film. I also really enjoyed the acting In this movie. As far as the rest goes I think the movie delivers the horror aspect a little poorly. The bad people (I guess you could say) are actually quite laughable rather than scary. Then when we are hit with the twist at the end I just think its makes everything more confusing. But I mean I really don't know if that was the intention for the audience to be left with a bunch of questions. None the less the overall experience of watching this film was actually pretty cool.
I always knew my own reflection was a little bit suspicious, also the reason funhouses creep me out.
I’m not clever enough for films like this.
The contrast between Peele’s suspense thriller Get Out & Us is night & day. Get Out was largely narrative driven with sinister undertones, whilst Us relies on absurd violence & completely irrational character decisions to drive the film forward. There were moments where characters would for no logical reason leave a relatively safe place & head straight towards ‘the scissors’ for no reason but to create a blood bath. The ending attempts to pay off what I assume the film was trying to setup, but however subtle the end result made no sense to me.
On a positive, the score is eerie & almost Coraline esc. If the story matched up we could’ve been on to a winner.
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