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Most movies that try to be funny and scary end up neither. Jordan Peele's Us manages to be both... and much more.
The movie imagines America as a topside Bourgie World of vacation homes, boats, and fancy cars and a Downside World, the latter being the result of an experiment in which everyone in America was cloned, and their doubles were kept in tunnels and used to control -- via their shared souls -- their other halves in Bourgie World. These soul-tethered clones are shadow people in a shadow world who spend their lives going through the motions of those topside. They mime riding in boats and enjoying other creature comforts and luxurious pleasures while those to whom they are tethered in Bourgie World are doing the real thing. At some point, "the tethered" were forgotten (probably when neoliberalism came along), but they continued to exist, stupidly going through the meaningless motions of their doppelgangers in Bourgie World.
The propelling event of the movie is a childhood encounter in the liminal space between the two worlds. Eventually, this leads to an uprising of "the tethered," who venture into the topside to untether themselves. Their rebellion is violent and terrifying, but because the Bourgie Folk and the Downside folk share their souls, they share the same values and vision, too. In both worlds the reverence for 'fitness' is accompanied by its evil twin, cruelty; the glib shallowness is accompanied by unquestioning and unthinking conformity; the drive to acquisition and achievement is accompanied by the belief that God smiles on those who do well; and the lack of space for those who see differently is dogged by a burn-it-down destructiveness. As a result, while the uprising is led by a character called Red, she is not some kind of Marxist champion of the abused and manipulated. Instead, as a changeling at the head of a horde of rebelling but clueless Bourgie-World-tethered clones, her leadership yields what will always mirror a childish, co-opted left; that is to say, Red's banner is more like what the color red has come to symbolize in American politics today, right-wing populism.
In the end, the "tethered" follow Red into Bourgie World and apparently accomplish what they were inspired and determined to do. They kill their doubles, and then -- in what might be the funniest, scariest final scene in a movie ever -- the rebelling shadow people re-enact Hands Across America.
In 1981, Margaret Thatcher said, "Economics are [our] method: the object is to change the soul;" in 2013, Adolph Reed, Jr. wrote, "Simply put, [Thatcher] and her element have won." In 2019, director Jordan Peele gave us, for our consideration, Us, a hilarious, frightening cautionary tale of the truth -- and consequences -- of the feckless 21st century American left.
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Adelaide WilsonHaunted by an unexplainable and unresolved trauma from her past and compounded by a string of eerie coincidences, Adelaide feels her paranoia elevate to high alert as she grows increasingly certain that something bad is going to befall her family. |
Gabe WilsonAdelaide’s husband, Gabe, is the patriarch of the family, but he’s also the “fun” parent. He doesn’t always consult Adelaide on things. If Gabe had really spent a lot of time listening to her, observing her actions, body language and the way she reacts to things, he’d have known a little bit more about his wife. |
Zora WilsonZora Wilson is the willful teen daughter of Adelaide and Gabe. She’s a little snarky, she’s smart and she’s hitting a point in her life where she wants to be taken seriously as a young woman, but she’s finding a bit of resistance from her parents as she tries to break out of that box. |
Jason WilsonThe youngest member of the Wilson family, Jason is perhaps the most internal and mysterious. He’s quiet, intelligent, and seemingly lost in his own head. |
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A good 4K upgrade
A worthwhile upgrade, Looks great on 4K and it came in the mail just fine, but I wish it came with a slipcover
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Alex G
La película es buena, pero no excelente
Reviewed in Mexico on August 29, 2019
Alex G
Reviewed in Mexico on August 29, 2019
Sobre el envío, pues detesto que se tarden demasiado en llegar desde Estados Unidos, a pesar del prime, podrían acelerar un poco, pero la envían hasta 4 días después, y eso deja un mal sabor de boca.
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Correcta edición en 4K UHD
Reviewed in Mexico on June 18, 2023
SILVIO OJEDA TABASCO
Reviewed in Mexico on June 18, 2023
Posee sonido en inglés Dolby Atmos de buena calidad, sin pérdidas de señal, así como español latino Dolby Digital Plus 7.1, subtítulos en ambos idiomas.
El código digital es válido solo para Movies Anywhere exclusivo de USA.
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