Us (2019)
Country: US/CHI/JAP
Technical: col/2.39:1 116m
Director: Jordan Peele
Cast: Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Shahadi Wright Joseph
Synopsis:
While on holiday near to where the mother had a traumatic beachside experience as a child, a family finds itself targeted by a bunch of doppelgangers in red overalls. It soon transpires that they are not the only ones. (Except that is a red herring.)
Review:
Impressing rather by the boldness of its imagination than by a satisfying rationale, this 'family in peril' horror nevertheless builds to an effective twist and is never less than unsettling. Unlike its predecessor, Get Out, it does not appear to have any particular axe to grind in the race war but is simply based around a family that happens to be black (nothing wrong with that). Rabbits furnish the link to experimentation, but it is not clear how or to what end the 'tethered' were created; although the final image evokes Trump's wall, as if America has become fenced in by its own unacknowledged underclass.
Country: US/CHI/JAP
Technical: col/2.39:1 116m
Director: Jordan Peele
Cast: Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Shahadi Wright Joseph
Synopsis:
While on holiday near to where the mother had a traumatic beachside experience as a child, a family finds itself targeted by a bunch of doppelgangers in red overalls. It soon transpires that they are not the only ones. (Except that is a red herring.)
Review:
Impressing rather by the boldness of its imagination than by a satisfying rationale, this 'family in peril' horror nevertheless builds to an effective twist and is never less than unsettling. Unlike its predecessor, Get Out, it does not appear to have any particular axe to grind in the race war but is simply based around a family that happens to be black (nothing wrong with that). Rabbits furnish the link to experimentation, but it is not clear how or to what end the 'tethered' were created; although the final image evokes Trump's wall, as if America has become fenced in by its own unacknowledged underclass.
Country: US/CHI/JAP
Technical: col/2.39:1 116m
Director: Jordan Peele
Cast: Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Shahadi Wright Joseph
Synopsis:
While on holiday near to where the mother had a traumatic beachside experience as a child, a family finds itself targeted by a bunch of doppelgangers in red overalls. It soon transpires that they are not the only ones. (Except that is a red herring.)
Review:
Impressing rather by the boldness of its imagination than by a satisfying rationale, this 'family in peril' horror nevertheless builds to an effective twist and is never less than unsettling. Unlike its predecessor, Get Out, it does not appear to have any particular axe to grind in the race war but is simply based around a family that happens to be black (nothing wrong with that). Rabbits furnish the link to experimentation, but it is not clear how or to what end the 'tethered' were created; although the final image evokes Trump's wall, as if America has become fenced in by its own unacknowledged underclass.