"US" a Groundbreaking Thriller Movie

Rating: 9/10 (14 May 2019)

After producing the greatest hit in 2017 "Get Out", Jordan Peele came back with another psychological thriller movie, "Us". Still with the same topic as "Get Out", now, he highlighted even further about the life of a particular family. In this movie, Jordan Peele really knew what he was doing with his captivating storyline, flawless characterization, and he also created that realistic feel of terrors and traumas. Even the poster was really frightening, he came up with the idea of a frightening duplicity of everyone, the lead character Nyong'o lifted off a mask of her own face which scared us all. There are many intricate things going on in the film that you really have to pay attention to if you want to grasp the full extent of the film. Lupita Nyong'o as the main character in this movie, performed really well. Nyong'o played was played by Adelaide Wilson, the wife of Gabe (Winston Duke) and mother to teen daughter Zora (Shahadi Wright Joseph) and mask-wearing son Jason (Evan Alex). All the main cast members played two roles, as their character and their doppelgänger (their own twins)
"Us" began back in 1986 with little adelaide and her parents wandering through the Santa Cruz boardwalk at night. She then got separated from them to walk on an empty beach, watching a foreboding flock of thunderclouds roll in. Her eyes found an attraction just off the main pier, and she walked into what looked like an abandoned hall of mirrors, discovering something deeply terrifying-her doppelgänger. Not a reflection of herself. A copy of herself.
The movie shifted to the present day, The little girl has now grown up to be a woman, Adelaide, nervous about returning to that spot on the Santa Cruz beach which was the same location where Adelaide had a traumatic experience. Later on that night, Adelaide noticed four stranger standing in front of their house. Gabe went out and asked them politely to leave, as these unknown persons are creeping out his family. The strangers dressed up in red jumpsuits. Unfortnately, they broke into the house instead of leaving. They were the family's doppelgängers, their exact doubles, except angry, and thirsty for blood
Us is a classic horror movie - perhaps the best since Get Out. The editing is flawless, going from present day horror to Adelaide's traumatic experience seamlessly without sacrificing intensity or scares. How, in the end, we can take some moral value that the producer want us to know about. Jordan Peele is trying to use this movie to say that we, as a human, should respect human rights of other people. Sometimes great movies will leave many questions in the audience's brain, and cause many interpretations.