Children's shoes, I still remember at last year's Oscars by Daming Lake, Jordan Peele, a comedian turned director , beat my favorite "Three Billboards" with his Virgo movie "Get Out" , the story of winning the Best Original Screenplay?
Horror and thriller genres are actually difficult to get affirmed at various film festivals, but "Escape from the Dead" has played a new trick, in terms of racial issues, liberal discussions, and horror innovations, all have been obtained. Breakthrough, so the film has a high global popularity index that year, especially in the United States.
After 2 years of absence, jordan pierre's second self-directed and self-supervised film "we" has finally been released. As early as the release of the film trailer, it attracted countless attention and is one of the most attractive trailers of the year. .
Santa Cruz Beach, California, USA (trailer plot).
The protagonist is a black family of four, a combination of parents and siblings, ready to visit a parent-child beach.
Everything seemed so peaceful, but when my mother was a child, on this beach, there was an unknown secret that made my mother very taboo on this beach.
Strange things happened, just when they were staying at the beach villa at night, they saw another stranger who looked like a family of four standing in front of their house strangely. Led the wolf into the room.
When the four uninvited strangers entered the house, the original owner was directly scared to pee. This is a stranger, this is themselves, their words, deeds, height and body are all the same as them.
This is where the trouble is, the trailer arrives, and the audience's appetite is caught to the ceiling.
"Us" is different from Wen Ziren's kind. Wen Ziren really put cows, ghosts, snakes and gods on the stage to show horror films. In terms of horror, whether it is "Escape from the Dead" or "Us", the shock index does not account for it. than a lot.
So if you see "Us" as a pure horror thriller, it may not live up to your expectations.
The structure of "Us" and "Escape from the Dead" are very similar. The films both let the protagonist fall into a black hole-like mystery, and then the protagonist and the audience will peel the truth layer by layer like an onion. This kind of terrifying The exciting exploration process is the driving force for the film to keep people wanting to look down.
"Us" is also an example of an "iceberg movie". There are many innuendos, satire, dark humor, and theme discussions in the film, which are buried under the film, just like the "we" under the film.
Of course, the director can't help but express the dark humor in the film. After all, director Jordan Peele made his debut as a comedian and started with comedy, and he is also an actor. Although the movies he starred in are often known for bad comedies, But he treats his own works with twelve points of genius.
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As I said before, my mother is a person with a story. Her story happened in 1986 when she was a child. During her play, she lost herself involuntarily and went to Merlin's Magic House Amusement Hall, but unexpectedly found a little girl with her look exactly the same.
Time has come to the current family of four. The frightened little girl became a mother and had two children, an older sister and a younger brother. The Santa Cruz beach they went to play with was the same beach where their mother got lost when she was a child, and when they came here again, the man in red with the same hair as them appeared.
This is also the biggest mystery of the film. Why do people in red have the same appearance as them? Those people in red have weird words and deeds, and lack the ability to communicate. Where do they come from?
At this time, of course, the mystery was left behind first, and it was important to escape, so the family of four started a game of fighting with "self". Fortunately, the black body was not bad, and used various hard props to kill the red father, sister and brother. , and finally the mother in red is left.
At this time, they also discovered that they were not the only ones being chased and killed by "self". Almost the entire United States was attacked. Many people in red rushed to the streets and killed themselves on the ground.
Mom followed in the footsteps of Mom in red and came to the world below. It turned out that the American management wanted to control the thinking of the American people, copied them, and wanted to control the people above through the people below.
This creative concept is similar to clones, but the difference is that the people below are indeed connected with the people above, and the feelings and experiences of people on the ground will be connected to the people below, but managers want to pass The people above control the people above, but they seem unable to do what they want, so the plan fails, the manager quits, and the people below rot in the bottom, which leads to the ultimate revenge of the people below.
At the end of the last, there is a big reversal, so I won't spoil it here.
Allusions and sarcasm, morality
"Us" is the same as "Escape from the Dead", the innuendo is buried under the story, the protagonist is not the director's mouthpiece to explain the theme, the hidden theme of the film needs to be explored by the audience a little bit, which is also a very memorable place for the film.
For example, the title of the film "US" is directly translated as "we", but it is also the abbreviation "US" for the United States . The story of the film is actually alluding to today's American managers (especially after 9/11), the monitoring and control of the American people has reached an outrageous and unbearable level, mobile phones, e-mails, personal location, call monitoring, etc., It leaves people breathless.
When the mother in red entered the room at that time, she said "We are also Americans". This sentence also implied that the "we" who were strictly controlled below had no personal freedom. Although he knew that he was still an American, But it's no different from prison inmates.
After that, my mother said that I wanted to flee, and my father asked where to flee, and my mother said "Mexico". Although this is a dark humor, the irony is really high-level. The United States, which was popularized by CHUAN, is always inseparable from Mexico. The Great Wall, trying to stop illegal immigrants from Mexico.
As an American mother, the first place to think of to keep yourself and your family safe is Mexico. This kind of irony is really fun.
Of course, Jordan Peele’s films must have ridiculed about black and white racial issues. The black family of four has white friends. During the day, they talk and laugh. In fact, the two families are also competing with each other in secret. , Hummer SUVs, and luxury cruise ships that make black dads jealous.
When the white family was killed in seconds, the black dad was able to use their car and yacht, and his expression was proud.
Among them, the white female protagonist wanted to call the police after her throat was cut, but was heard by the intelligent voice as a song about the police, and finally played a song "FU*K Police", which was full of ridicule.
"11.11" also appears in the film. It's not that the director loves Tmall Double Eleven, but the 11:11 fragment of "Jeremiah" in the Old Testament. The original meaning of this fragment is:
"I'm going to bring them a catastrophe from which they can't escape. Although they cry out to me, I won't listen to them."
This sentence is spoken by the Lord to the sinners of Judah and Jerusalem, and it also hints at the beginning of the film's suffering on the ground.
There are also rabbits in the film, which are the only food for the people below, and they are eaten alive, but rabbits are actually a metaphor in the film. Everyone has heard the word "rabbit hole", and its meaning is used to enter the unknown. , disorientation and insanity.
The movie "Alice in Wonderland", "Rabbit Hole" is what it means.
Moreover, the rabbit is an animal with a particularly powerful reproductive ability, and it looks the same. The rabbit is also used as an indirect metaphor for the people below. They are also breeding themselves, copying the words and deeds of people on the ground.
The fundraising advertisement in 1986 has become the belief of the people below. This is passed down by the mother in red. This weakly satirizes the ridiculousness of religion. In the end, after the people in red killed themselves on the ground, they crossed hand in hand. The whole of the United States is like a grand religious ceremony, but for normal us, this is indeed a very ridiculous move.
In addition, the moral issues presented in the film are also very vague. Although we see that the protagonist kills people very well, and the people below come up to kill people with original sin, has anyone ever thought that they themselves are a group of people who need care and sympathy? Especially the little friends who have watched the film, must know what I am talking about. In the end, my mother's reversal is talking about this moral issue.
Of course, having said so much, although "Us" is an excellent horror thriller as I thought, it is still a little short of expectations. After all, the amazing "Escape from the Dead" before made me adjust my expectations. Very high, if the film can put more perspectives on the people below, expand moral issues, and show more satire, perhaps the film’s foothold will be higher.
The most moving part of the film is that the white woman in red wears lipstick in front of the mirror after killing the heroine. The desire for life on the ground, the desire for a normal life with blue sky and white clouds, is fully revealed and very impressive. mercy.
Finally, there are scissors. Scissors are a symmetrical tool. Just like our you and me, the left and right handles are exactly the same, as if standing on opposite sides of each other. When the scissors are combined, the scissors will become sharp weapons, causing damage to others. The damage to each other, because the scissors will become duller with use, and eventually cause the real body and the shadow to cancel each other out, resulting in an irreversible damage.
In short, "Us" is a must-see horror thriller this year, and there are many, many more terrifying metaphors and innuendos in it. Don't miss it.
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