Us

Jordan Peele, 2019, USA, Colour, 116 mins, Certificate: 15

So, you’ve made it, right? You are living the American dream, correct? Is your beach vacation serene enough? Are your friends and neighbours white enough? Are they colour blind enough? Are you?

Have you looked yourself in the mirror lately? Have you talked to her? Out loud? What is troubling you? Who is to blame? Us or the Others? Who are Us and who the Others? Are you screaming yet?

Jordan Peele follows his hit, pop culture phenomenon of a film debut, “Get Out”, (which was nominated for 4 Oscars and won him the one for Best Original Screenplay), with this eerie, mind-boggling and unexpectedly philosophical, cinematic nightmare, just in time for Halloween. A haunted and haunting dream, from which you willingly persist not to awake up or avert your eyes.

Because you do not want to miss a minute of the intriguing, existential puzzles, enigmas, and questions it confronts you with, or a second of Lupita Nyong’o’s amazing performance, which you have to see to believe. In a double role, as Adelaide and her mysterious doppelganger, Red, she crawls under your skin, grips your heart, and besieges your mind. Can you resist her? Should you?

Reviews:

★★★★ “Like “The Shining,” there are a number of different ways to interpret Jordan Peele’s excellent new horror movie, Us… Peele’s film, which he directed, wrote and produced, will likely reward audiences on multiple viewings, each visit revealing a new secret, showing you something you missed before in a new light. ” Monica Castillo, Rogerebert.com

“The performances are uniformly fantastic, but I was most impressed by Wright Joseph and Nyong’o, both delivering distinct and completely unique work. Nyong’o gives a master class in acting in dual roles and is almost unrecognizable as her doppelgänger persona. ” Yolanda Machado, The Wrap

“A brilliant home-invasion thriller laced with cultural reference points stretching back to the late ’80s, and a smorgasbord of first-rate visceral cinematic scares. Think “Funny Games” collided with Cronenbergian body horror and Hitchockian suspense, and you’re maybe halfway there. ” Eric Kohn, IndieWire

““Us” is a film that places itself within pop culture for diagnostic—and even self-diagnostic—purposes; its subject is, in large measure, cultural consciousness and its counterpart, the cultural unconscious. The crucial element of horror is political and moral—the realities that metaphorical fantasies evoke.” Richard Brody, The New Yorker

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