twist was so east to guess cmon
― flopson, Monday, 25 March 2019 07:35 (five years ago) link
Neanderthal's post makes me understand something very basic that I was missing for some reason--they simply switched places in that funhouse 30 years ago. I was fixated on the idea that mom was somehow simultaneously herself and shadow-mom at the same time. So the ending isn't illogical; you can complain about it on other grounds, but it does make sense, I guess.
― clemenza, Monday, 25 March 2019 11:29 (five years ago) link
Why did Adelaide stay in the tunnels all those years when Red was able to escape fairly easily?
― Chris L, Monday, 25 March 2019 11:38 (five years ago) link
“we’re americans” is an amazing and awesome line
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 25 March 2019 12:28 (five years ago) link
that it’s difficult to derive a single clear message from this movie is... good
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 25 March 2019 12:31 (five years ago) link
and i’m just gonna say i liked this better than get out
The line doesn't give their jumpsuits their meaning, but it's the only point we have to go off of. The line makes it obvious there's something to the horror beyond a genre exercise, so................... what is it? and the twist totally complicates all of this.
you want an explainer not a movie
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 25 March 2019 12:32 (five years ago) link
I agree that the thematic ambiguity is good. I did find the actual script needlessly overburdened with content to interpret, incl "we're americans" tbh. things left unstated are much more unsettling.
― Simon H., Monday, 25 March 2019 12:34 (five years ago) link
I think “we’re Americans” works as deadpan, that’s how my engaged crowd seemed to take it, any other level aside.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Monday, 25 March 2019 13:46 (five years ago) link
― Chris L, Monday, March 25, 2019 7:38 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
She was handcuffed to her bed. Presumably someone eventually helped her out of it but perhaps it had been so long that she had no idea how she would get out and find her parents?
From 14 on she seemed more interested in inspiring the others.
― early to board the Buttigieg train (Neanderthal), Monday, 25 March 2019 13:58 (five years ago) link
Yeah, agreed. I mean, does everyone finish their first watch of The Shining frustrated that the message isn’t clear?
“We’re Americans” sets up that there are two classes of people who are tethered but do not visibly overlap. While watching it, I thought the Tethered were from a world where slaves were never freed...but in the end the story feels as much about class as race. You grow up in the underworld, you don’t get to heal your face, and so on. And what does the main family owe that underworld, whether they are their ancestors or themselves if not for good luck?
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 25 March 2019 14:32 (five years ago) link
I think “we’re Americans” works as deadpan.
That too, definitely.
― clemenza, Monday, 25 March 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
/The line doesn't give their jumpsuits their meaning, but it's the only point we have to go off of. The line makes it obvious there's something to the horror beyond a genre exercise, so................... what is it? and the twist totally complicates all of this./you want an explainer not a movie
― flappy bird, Monday, 25 March 2019 15:45 (five years ago) link
Go watch Magic Mike then
― early to board the Buttigieg train (Neanderthal), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:58 (five years ago) link
But there’s only two of them
― flappy bird, Monday, 25 March 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link
Just skimmed this--unqualified rave.
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/review-jordan-peeles-us-is-a-colossal-cinematic-achievement
― clemenza, Monday, 25 March 2019 17:57 (five years ago) link
Just saw this, flopson otm about the twist being easy to spot. Seemed like an obv possibility from the start if you’ve like ever seen anything before, and then when she’s finishing off the one twin and grunting just like the tethered ppl do and the son comes in and stares at her horrified, clearly suggesting that he’s starting to figure something out, and then they keep on piling on massive hints from there... cmon is right I liked how the men were awful on both sides
― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Monday, 25 March 2019 18:56 (five years ago) link
I'm in love with Gus.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 March 2019 18:58 (five years ago) link
Gabe rather
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 March 2019 18:59 (five years ago) link
he was great
here's my review fwiw
― flappy bird, Monday, 25 March 2019 19:07 (five years ago) link
(The Dad from Get Out) I just thought Get Out had so much more to say about white liberalism.-@samzorn— Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable) March 25, 2019
― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Monday, 25 March 2019 19:14 (five years ago) link
I really liked this and found the way it fit together (or didn’t) really satisfying but I could definitely have done with more of the shadow family because I found them really frightening esp the husband and daughter Elizabeth Moss’s fake devastation turning to mocking laughter - you know it’s coming, I feel like I’ve seen this so many times but the way she did it was great
― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Monday, 25 March 2019 19:30 (five years ago) link
Actually I’m not sure the devastation was fake
― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Monday, 25 March 2019 19:53 (five years ago) link
her best screen performance
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 March 2019 20:15 (five years ago) link
can we change thread title to ‘Us’
― flopson, Monday, 25 March 2019 21:48 (five years ago) link
Film people are really into ALL CAPS TITLES idgi myself
― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Monday, 25 March 2019 21:49 (five years ago) link
ya but in this case it’s confusing because titles only two letters so it looks like an abbrev. bothers me
― flopson, Monday, 25 March 2019 21:57 (five years ago) link
It's just a titling convention, sheesh
― Simon H., Monday, 25 March 2019 22:05 (five years ago) link
it's not tho is the thing
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 25 March 2019 22:09 (five years ago) link
see promotional material for the film and listings.
simon was saying what wins said. it's true that the title and thematic concerns of this movie mean that the standard titling convention creates confusion. the world's just a big ol mystery :(
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 25 March 2019 22:16 (five years ago) link
peruse new answers and you'll see several all-caps movies and TV titles
― Simon H., Monday, 25 March 2019 22:19 (five years ago) link
i realize it’s insanely pedantic ok
― flopson, Monday, 25 March 2019 22:22 (five years ago) link
Are we all tethered now
― early to board the Buttigieg train (Neanderthal), Monday, 25 March 2019 22:31 (five years ago) link
saw it again. decided that the ending isn’t illogical at all really, it makes the film make sense
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 March 2019 02:44 (five years ago) link
my main take was that an excellent way to have your audience leave with a more positive impression of your film than they previously had is by sticking Les Fleurs on at the end of it
― or something, Thursday, 28 March 2019 05:34 (five years ago) link
saw it tonight
flappy is nutso w/ this relentless "MAGA red jumpsuit" thing, as if jumpsuits or any red clothing items beyond transplant-protecting caps were associated with Trump
there's a broader melange of on-the-nose allusions: people wearing prison-style jumpsuits, chained and tethered and joined to each other, an underclass marked by this clothing and colour rising up
good night
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Thursday, 28 March 2019 07:32 (five years ago) link
good morning!
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 March 2019 10:51 (five years ago) link
sic otm
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 March 2019 11:29 (five years ago) link
also on top of the excellent performances from the central cast, tim heidecker and elizabeth moss are both phenomenal in this
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 March 2019 14:56 (five years ago) link
Heidecker was born to play a murderous subterranean ape who is also somehow still just an asshole
― Simon H., Thursday, 28 March 2019 15:14 (five years ago) link
I don't know if I ultimately more than merely liked the movie, but there was enough going for it that I loved, important stuff, like acting and direction and score, that I'd still recommend it to someone. I mostly wished there was less explaining and more sticking to the metaphors and fairy tale motifs.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 March 2019 04:11 (five years ago) link
I actually like it more the morning after than I did right after I saw it. Plenty of fuel for thought in this one, and I look forward to reading a bunch of think pieces. Honestly I agree that the MAGA metaphor is the most coherent one at work here (bar the unnecessary twist), but obviously there's a lot of other stuff going on as well.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 March 2019 13:12 (five years ago) link
Oh, and the uppercase US can't be a coincidence. US=U.S.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 March 2019 14:06 (five years ago) link
yeah it's not uppercase though, is the point
― Number None, Friday, 29 March 2019 14:10 (five years ago) link
Actually Us stands for "Universal Soldier" and the twist is this movie is in that universe
― Buttigieg comes right from the source (Neanderthal), Friday, 29 March 2019 14:13 (five years ago) link
The title in the opening credits is ambiguous re: upper v lowercase.
― dinnerboat, Friday, 29 March 2019 14:14 (five years ago) link
no it isn't
― Number None, Friday, 29 March 2019 14:22 (five years ago) link
the allusion is obvious, but the title is written as Us in the film and every piece of promotional material
― Number None, Friday, 29 March 2019 14:23 (five years ago) link
Still not a coincidence, imo.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 March 2019 14:25 (five years ago) link