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[Open Spoilers] The Movie called "Us" made by Jordan Peele IS a horror movie
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Which is why I think it’s so potent, because it has so many applications that are all equally valid
It’s like the third to last shot of the movie! The whole thing is built on you don’t know what she saw!!
Trailers are terrible.
hes done it at the beginning of both his movies
Without the twist, there's the lingering question of how human they actually are, as we only see them really performing acts of violence, terror and mimicry.
The twist shows they could have lead normal, happy lives like Adelaide, given the opportunity. It adds a depth that wouldn't be there if they're just passed off as spooky monsters
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I think the twist still works if they're spooky monsters. Adelaide taking Red's place in the shadow world is just as chilling of a concept as taking her place in a series of convenient underground tunnels.
It'd still be chilling, sure, but I think then you'd lose the tragedy of the Tethered, of people just abandoned underground and slowly driven mad. It also torpedoes the metaphors the film was going for, of class struggle and privilege, if they're not human like the surface people
Like I can see why the twist was deflating, I was kind of let down at first too, as it seemed very obvious, but the more I think about it the more it seems key to the whole movie
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directors don't usually have much say in what goes into the trailers, do they?
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It's the placement that I don't like
Doing it in that cliche horror stinger style makes it much less effective
I wonder if it’d be better if they did that as Adelaide (actually Red, boy this makes it hard to talk about) descended the escalator, alternate the image with her as a kid going up
That sounds way better to me, at very least.
I want to start picking apart all of the little signs and symbols that I know are out there.
No one knows about the tethered, but they also don't want to know about the tethered. It makes their situation more tragic that they're so close to the surface, that if anyone bothered to look they could find them
Elisabeth Moss is too but she has a very long track record of being very good
Heidecker’s Tethered version has such a weird fun swagger and should be in for another 15 minutes
That was what I thought the big twist was when it came.
i think the placement is perfect
i think doing it at the last possible second, knowing everything you know, it works to recontextualize a lot
and it purposely plays with the typical horror stinger formula of "the danger isn't really over"
like adelaide having been red this entire time actually doesn't pose a threat to anyone in that car. so, what does it mean then?
it's not the most intricate of nudges, but i like it as a pivot point
Have scissor-like ears
Creep out Jordan Peele
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The movie opens on caved rabbits to plant in your mind the idea of animals bred for labratory experiments, which is what the tethered are
there's also a rabbit silhouette in the negative space of the trailer's title card
And arguably Jason's interest in magic could be linked in there too
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And if the girl sitting behind me in the theater is to be trusted, it was extremely scary
that song was PERFECT there, id be bummed if it was anything else
Peele is aiming at a really broad audience and therefore undercuts the horror with humor or other different feelings. For my part, I like it a lot more this way.
It’s such a stroke of genius
I had NO idea there’d be more doubles than just the Wilsons. I figured the Tylers would be the victims when the movie moved to their house. The plot would stay there for a while as the tethered Wilsons kill the Tylers.
So when tethered Tylers come out of nowhere and jack the family, damn. It was the presentation: just swift and brutal. No scare chords. No shitty cuts everywhere. Just four quick kills that flowed from the Tylers just casually talking. All set to the Beach Boys. Incredible.
The busyness of the film worked against it, I felt. There are so many ideas packed in and so much going on that it becomes a tough juggle, the first house scene in particular had some jarring edits that kinda seized up the momentum it was building. The monologue that precedes the final clash of the Lupitas also hiccups rights when it seems that the film is building up some escape velocity for the big finish. Just didn't really feel necessary.
Anyway, Lupita deserves the Oscar and the moment where her tethered character first speaks made me react viscerally in a way that I rarely do to movies.
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