US by jordan peele

if your explanation doesn't actually explain anything, better to just leave it totally ambiguous and leave the audience wondering imo

does red know that adelaide knows it

my read has always been that they were young when it happened and their environments changed so drastically and permanently that they legit forgot the switch happened, idk

they stayed alive by eating the rabbits obviously but i don't particularly care that the exposition is stupid

also adelaide was a kid when she transitioned into the outer world, she wouldn't necessarily know anything about the whole project

they both know they switched places that night. The tether who escaped sure as hell didn't know anything beyond that, she never visited the person she swapped with.

The tether has no idea what the real Nyong'o was doing below the surface all of those years, or how she organized the tethers to kill their surface overlords.

― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Thursday, December 12, 2019 2:36 PM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

or, you know, this post, which nothing you've said contradicts shakey

yeah, it very much read like the tether had remembered events to where she was the victim. after killing the people in the friends house, she starts making primitive, animalistic noises after the act was done, same when she fights Red at the end. her son hears some of it and is actually scared of her in the van, it appears. sounds like she regressed enough that she remembered at the end of the movie that she was the one who swapped places.

and obv I know Hollywood always treats repressed memories in a very unrealistic way but who cares.

"why would the devil spin the little girl's head in The Exorcist, surely the girl would be dead as soon as the devil left her body, the same laws of biology apply!"

they legit forgot the switch happened

they both felt some kind of mystical connection during the dance, which is explicitly stated and is decades earlier than the main events in the film

one more time

Years after we met, the miracle happened. That’s when I saw God, and he showed me my path. You felt it too.

I mean *they share a fucking soul* how much more connected could they be

yes they felt some kind of mystical connection during the dance but does that mean they automatically know the entire context of the government project

or at least, that doesn't mean that adelaide does!

so yeah i'm finding more reasons for the exposition dump to exist

the entire context of the government project

government is not referenced

idk why I'm bothering tbh

i don't know why you're bothering either

or why it matters that the government isn't referenced

as a specific point it doesn't matter, but I'm suspicious of any reading that isn't firmly rooted in actual details of what's on-screen.

they stayed alive by eating the rabbits obviously but i don't particularly care that the exposition is stupid

The fun thing about this detail is that if you eat a diet solely composed of rabbit you will starve to death

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning

so they couldn't have picked a worse food source for their nonsensical plan!

thanks for that one cinema sins

and a merry christmas to you too

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/ef6b539e-4be2-4388-8d00-05251d9aee20

I loved the first 45 mins, and then spent the rest of the time alternately amused and exasperated. The middle part is definitely the weakest, as it basically becomes a home invasion thriller with this one kooky hook. The final reveal worked ok for me even if it doesn't entirely play fair with the lead character's childhood trauma.

it's a good home invasion thriller! also iirc the part where Peele gets to work more humour than elsewhere into the movie?

I loved this movie a lot and my takeaway from this thread is that I would thoroughly hate watching a movie with most of you

I also have some incredibly unkind thoughts on subconscious bias as expressed in some of the complaints about this movie but they are possibly more about my interpretation of the complaints than the actual complaints themselves.

(Primary being "the dialog was stilted" = "black people don't talk like that")

(I guess I do feel like going there)

thread revive got me all mixed up in light of other recent events. Jordan Peele threatening pre-emptive Iran strike, do I have that right?

say what now?

this is the us politics thread not the us politics thread

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

Probably should start a new thread but

☁️ pic.twitter.com/iiDRwVLmbr

— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) July 22, 2021

And I just posted this in the "No" thread.

Hoping for a "Oh Hell No" director's cut.

NOPE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUgmq_8PlRY

Separate thread, my friend

Nope (dir. Jordan Peele)