Jordan Peele’’s 'Us'

[DeadStroke]

DC should headhunt peele to do their Green Lantern movie now. Peele is a master story teller (like hitchcock and early M.night).

How dare you sir. I've already petitioned the MCU to snatch up Peele before DC gets their grubby little hands on him.

Wrong DC film. This should be more up Peele's alley

I love what the MCU has been doing lately, but I would hate to see Peele stuck in the (MCU) sandbox.

On 2nd thought.....now that they've acquired Fox characters...

 

[Bobber]

This is pretty accurate

 

[bubbadoom]

When it was reviewed that Adelaide was in fact a clone who had escaped the underground - WHY on earth would she as an adult come within a hundred miles of the place she had escaped from?

 

[writer0327]

When it was reviewed that Adelaide was in fact a clone who had escaped the underground - WHY on earth would she as an adult come within a hundred miles of the place she had escaped from?

Spoiler

My interpretation of that is she that had no memory of escaping from that place, and she believed she was the real Adelaide. It wasn't until the end that she remembered she was the doppelgänger.

 

[Boy Scout]

Y’all might wanna spoiler tag that.

But yes, it looked to me as if she had forgotten as well.

 

[Lasirius]

We're people asking about the underground tunnel? Do you remember if that opening text was apart of the version you saw first?

People expressed confusion regarding the tunnel, yes. That opening scene with the text on the screen about tunnels was not in the advanced screening.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[terry78]

haha that was pretty accurate.

 

[RockSP]

That is a very detailed idea that she came up with, assuming that you are correct and that there was no evidence left behind for her to piece things together with.

And if this story is not true and is in her head...then...uh...what IS the truth? They gave me an answer...with ZERO real reason to doubt her (aside from you just saying that she obviously made it up)...and there's not a scrap of evidence that she made it up or a single bit of info leading to any other origin being correct.

Finally saw this movie this morning.

As for the bold, she has a line during her chalkboard speech that basically says this is what she thinks happened (regarding the government experiment).

 

[Heretic]

Finally saw this movie this morning.

As for the bold, she has a line during her chalkboard speech that basically says this is what she thinks happened (regarding the government experiment).

And she just jumped to that conclusion based on nothing...and then instead of leaving to go home...she stayed with these strangers she couldnt even communicate with and chose to eat raw rabbit instead of the food waiting for her at home etc. And then...I guess got a job to get the money to buy their stuff so they could kill people. All based on a guess.

Seriously...no answer at all is better than this answer, in my opinion.

 

[Lily Adler]

In other words, testing audiences hurt the final product again... At least it wasn't anything severe just questions.

 

[terry78]

Well they don't like sad endings or unexplained plot points.

 

[writer0327]

And she just jumped to that conclusion based on nothing...and then instead of leaving to go home...she stayed with these strangers she couldnt even communicate with and chose to eat raw rabbit instead of the food waiting for her at home etc. And then...I guess got a job to get the money to buy their stuff so they could kill people. All based on a guess.

Seriously...no answer at all is better than this answer, in my opinion.

My theory on why she did that:

Spoiler

She didn't know how to get out. She didn't know how to get out of the tunnels and go home.

Remember, the real Adelaide was choked and unconscious when Red dragged her downstairs through that maze of tunnels as a little girl, and she didn't awaken until she was cuffed to the bed. And then the doppelgänger took off. So there's the possibility that she didn't know how to find her way out. When the adult clone returns at the end of the film, there were a lot of turns and twists to get to that last escalator, so its possible she might have tried but could never find her way out and gotten lost.

And there's also the matter of the doppelgängers being tied to their above ground counterparts. These people down below seemed to have no life of their own, they had to mimic the actions of those above ground. Something I wondered about is what do people do when they go on vacation. Do they travel across the country? So where did her family live? Maybe down the coast in LA? Or somewhere else? So maybe the doppelgänger was thousands of miles away from where she started and the real Adelaide had no idea how to escape from a entirely different tunnel system.

But ultimately, I don't think any of it really matters. There's always little mysteries in movies that don't get explained. How does the flux capacitor work? Why 88 mph? Who knows?

 

[RockSP]

And she just jumped to that conclusion based on nothing...and then instead of leaving to go home...she stayed with these strangers she couldnt even communicate with and chose to eat raw rabbit instead of the food waiting for her at home etc. And then...I guess got a job to get the money to buy their stuff so they could kill people. All based on a guess.

Seriously...no answer at all is better than this answer, in my opinion.

That's cool, but I wasn't speaking on every detail of the backstory, just addressing what you said about the audience not being given a reason to doubt her.

 

[Kane52630]

Lupita Nyong'o apologises after Us 'evil' voice disability row

 

[Boy Scout]

Lupita Nyong'o apologises after Us 'evil' voice disability row

Not to hijack the the thread, but I don’t think an apology was necessary. In the original article in which she referenced the disability as an inspiration, she didn’t say anything disparaging about it or anyone suffering from it. At least not to my knowledge, because she wasn’t directly quoted. I do think it’s important for entertainment to showcase positive examples of disabled individuals and not portray them to nightmare fuel or a strange “other” to be avoided and shunned, but I also don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing to look at real life ailments and disorders and see how they can add to a performance when appropriate. There’s certainly a risk of being offensive when doing that, but I don’t think Nyong’o crossed that line. It’s also not a problem that she apologized, I just don’t think that she really needed to do so.

Full disclaimer: I’m not a disabled person, so I’m willing to admit that there are things about the situation that I don’t and can’t understand. YMMV.

 

[tzarinna]

This is a great thread that Peele himself retweeted.

An enthusiastic case for why Us deserves multiple viewings
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An enthusiastic case for why Us deserves multiple viewings
Jordan Peele's references, staging, symbolism and foreshadowing can be a lot to absorb in your rookie watch of Us. As @eveewing points out, going back for seconds yields an even more rewarding experience. SPOILERS AHEAD

 

[LvtLeeTDK]

Why the hell should she apology ?

 

[Aximili86]

It's 2019, it's in fashion.

 

[LvtLeeTDK]

Lmao can't believe this world nowadays. That's a freaking terrifying voice. The people who pretend that those voice are normal and "there's nothing scary or different about it" are so hypocritical that it makes me cringe.

 

[Schlosser85]

Everybody needs to stop knuckling under and apologizing for stuff that doesn’t warrant an apology. It just helps encourage this 24/7 fake outrage about anything and everything.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Don't wear them around me, i might have to get that bat.

Which will then be taken from you with embarrassingly relative ease.

 

[Boy Scout]

So who else is dressing up as the duplicates for Halloween?

 

[MadVillainy]

So who else is dressing up as the duplicates for Halloween?

If I see someone dressed as a duplicate I'm swinging on them

 

[Boy Scout]

If I see someone dressed as a duplicate I'm swinging on them

I’ll take that risk, fam. You know much money I’ll save running around in a ****ing jumpsuit?