After releasing his highly acclaimed film “Get Out” in 2017, Jordan Peele followed up with another horror film that captivated the audience and kept them on the edge of their seat. The film chronicles an alternate world where every person has a doppelganger living lifeless in the underground. These lifeless doppelgangers break free from their chains and come to the forefront of the world, wreaking havoc and terrorizing their “twins”. While the film is classified as a horror film, it is much more than jump scares and violence. As in his original film, Peele is trying to send a message to his audience to look deeper than what is in plain sight. New York Time’s had a similar viewpoint, detailing how “Peele uses the metaphor of the divided self to explore what lies beneath contemporary America, its double consciousness, its identity, sins and terrors. The results are messy, brilliant, sobering, even bleak” (Dargis). They justify their claims by noting how Peele incorporates excerpts from Colson Whitehead’s novel “The Underground Railroad”, connecting the revolution in the movie to slaves escaping from subjection.
Works Cited
Dargis, Manohla. “’Us’ Review: Jordan Peele’s Creepy Latest Turns a Funhouse Mirror on Us.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 20 Mar. 2019, http://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/movies/us-movie-review.html.
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