I'm mad I won't get to watch this for another week. Twitter is obsessed with the movie already, and I'm scared I'm going to get spoiled quite easily.
Us (2019)
About to see this
If US seems messy, it is almost certainly by design. Peele rejects the unified cohesion of GET OUT. Instead, US prickles and pokes, and denies the comfort of thinkpiece-ready messaging. It is more demanding, confrontational, & yet, succeeds as a chilling & visceral horror movie.
Peele's talent is a treasury of riches. He is the uncommon talent that knows when to deploy a muscular tracking shot and when to keep the camera static. When music should veer on operatic and when to let sound design dominate. Most of all, he knows the power of Lupita Nyong'o.
Peele detonates themes of duality, darwin, agency, class and gender, and he uses them as sociopolitical shrapnel. US is hard to talk about without spoilers, but the structure is implicitly disorienting, and the type of movie that demands to be seen more than once. I can't wait.
-Vader
Peele's talent is a treasury of riches. He is the uncommon talent that knows when to deploy a muscular tracking shot and when to keep the camera static. When music should veer on operatic and when to let sound design dominate. Most of all, he knows the power of Lupita Nyong'o.
Peele detonates themes of duality, darwin, agency, class and gender, and he uses them as sociopolitical shrapnel. US is hard to talk about without spoilers, but the structure is implicitly disorienting, and the type of movie that demands to be seen more than once. I can't wait.
-Vader
actual spoilers
i give this film a them out of 10
Mixed on this. The plot itself makes little sense and only continues to do so with every twist and turn it throws at the audience. The film itself is crafted exceptionally though, and Peele is utilizing everything he can at his disposal. His directing, shot composition, editing, etc. is all on point.
But as much as I was wanting to love it, I couldn't justify some of the oddball choices the movie makes that, unlike what Vader is saying, does not feel purposeful to me. Multiple families were literally arguing about core plot points of the film over who understood it correctly, and I honestly didn't know who was right. The film brings you more questions than answers, which would be fine if the questions themselves even lined up.
Lupita is a monumental force of nature in this, and the score is brilliantly composed and used.
Probably a 6.5 or a 7/10 from me if I had to rate it. Could improve on multiple viewings, but I'm not sure.
But as much as I was wanting to love it, I couldn't justify some of the oddball choices the movie makes that, unlike what Vader is saying, does not feel purposeful to me. Multiple families were literally arguing about core plot points of the film over who understood it correctly, and I honestly didn't know who was right. The film brings you more questions than answers, which would be fine if the questions themselves even lined up.
Lupita is a monumental force of nature in this, and the score is brilliantly composed and used.
bacon, the
-Vader
-Vader
lol dude
ah i feel you.
-Vader
Setting metaphor and subtext aside:
The first two thirds were near pitch-perfect only to crumble its concepts under its own ambition, something I'm surprised happened considering Peele's previous navigation of pitfalls. He provides lots of ideas to think about but the film could have been so much stronger if the material that the ideas come from was more solid.
I'm fully aware I'm in the minority on this.
I'm fully aware I'm in the minority on this.
