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Us
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Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex View AllCrew
Jordan Peele (Director), Jordan Peele (Writer) View All
Release: Mar. 14th, 2019
Runtime: 1 hour, 56 minutes
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Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'
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Major spoilers ahead.
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Peele's new film is a clever, cerebral look at modern day USA. I thought it was very good. It is such a layered film. I wasn't really a fan of Get Out, I thoug...
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When it is revealed at the end that our Adelaide was actually the clone from the basement and she had switched with her real life counter-part...why didn't the real Adelaide just walk up the escalator and escape.

One can say that the metaphor and social commentary of the story ends up being more important than the logistics of how the reality that the film is presenting would work or make sense in the real world.

The film is taking on not only the idea of the plight of the invisible underclass who suffer while at the same time having their faces rubbed in the lives of those more privileged, but also the notion that successful people are "born better".