The villains in Jordan Peele’s smash horror hit 'Us' aren’t quite who — or what — they seem.
in which an African American man found himself fighting his way out of The Sunken Place, a subconscious prison borne of toxic white liberalism.
The Tyler family, white friends of the Wilsons, have their own demented doubles. So too, it seems, does everyone in town. These attackers have suddenly appeared out of the depths to launch a brutal, bloody mass invasion, and there is a very specific motivation behind their madness. But why?, harbors her own childhood traumas and secrets; deep down, she’s always known this day would come.
Smashing box office records upon release and nearly doubling analysts’ opening weekend projections, “Us” left audiences buzzing after scoring the best first weekend for a live-action original since 2009’s “Avatar.”Who was controlling whom during that fateful ballet performance? Where did the Tethered get all those scissors, anyway? —Jordan Peele directs Lupita Nyong'o's Red in a scene set in the Underpass in"Us.
“Abraham is on the other end of the spectrum for me, because he is on the outside of that,” continued Duke. “He is an outsider. He doesn’t get healthcare. He doesn’t get glasses. He doesn’t get a voice.”The ranks of the Tethered seemingly stretch far across the continental United States. Just how far is one of the film’s lingering unknowns.
“We don’t generally acknowledge, and we tend to neglect, the fact that people have to and have had to suffer in order for us to have the privileges we have,” said Peele.
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