Horror movies are terrifying because they present the fear of human uncertainty to the audience. By pulling out the 'human' part of the character, it is distorted into something with an animal and a magical nature. , the audience was particularly appalled by such a recreated monster. Therefore, it may be considered that people's fear of horror films stems from their resistance to familiar people and things becoming a strange 'other'
First of all, this is not a formal movie review. The following are some random thoughts after watching the movie 'Us', without any analysis of the specific plot.
Horror movies are terrifying because they present the fear of human uncertainty to the audience. By taking out the 'human' part of the character, it distorts it into something with animality and magic. Audiences were particularly appalled by such a recreated monster. Therefore, it may be considered that people's fear of horror films stems from the resistance and natural fear of familiar people and things becoming a strange 'other'. At the same time, the conflict between 'us' - everything that the audience knows, and 'them' - everything that is different from 'us' - has always been a favorite theme of the film. At the same time, the conflict between 'us' - everything that the audience knows, and 'them' - everything that is different from 'us' - has always been a favorite theme of the film.
After watching 'Us', I regret not going to the cinema, although Jordan Peele said that Us and is not as politically charged as Get Out, but the discussion of class in the film is still obvious. To a certain extent, Us has a certain similarity with the movie Snowpiercer. The shadow people in Us are the same as the people in Snowpiercer who live at the end of the train and eat cockroaches for a living. They are expelled and used; at the same time, they long to be seen and to be the body. The existence of class is also discussed in the two films. The existence of the shadow man in Us is attributed to an unsuccessful experiment by the government. The contradiction between the body and the shadow man seems to be one of the products of this experiment. Therefore, Us The existence of class in the seems to be artificial. Although Snowpiercer did not show the society before the end of the world, through the dialogue between the characters and the famous speech about shoes and hats, the audience learned that the wealth gap existed long before boarding the train. This kind of unequal society Relationships are continued on the train; the film seems to suggest that the concept of class can be understood to some extent as a natural order, even with a certain divinity, even if people are separated from the original society and people are relocated to a car that never stops The natural order of the 'pre-train era' still affects the 'train era'.
Unlike Snowpiercer, Us always reveals a strong sense of unease, and this unease comes from the fear and anxiety about 'us' and 'them'. Since the millennium, factors such as immigration, homosexuality, and changing gender roles have all impacted the traditional social norms and universal values of Western society, and the familiarity that people rely on is disappearing day by day. Those shadow people who look like 'us' in Us represent the 'they/them' who make 'us' fear. On the surface, 'they' seems to be no different from 'us', but 'us' But always live in fear of being played by 'them'; from this perspective, shadow people may represent all minorities, from immigrants to homosexuals. And the most interesting character in Us is the heroine, the female shadow figure who walks out of the underworld. Her story reminds me of Plato's allegory of the cave; she is not satisfied with the projection from the real world on the cave wall as Reality, so like a fable, she walked out of the cave, and after seeing the warm sunshine, can she still see when she returned to the dark cave? And this is also a topic that must be touched by all films about class. After overthrowing the existing 'unequal' class, what is waiting for the characters? The ending of Snowpiercer gives a relatively optimistic answer. With the explosion of the train and the appearance of the polar bear, the endless cycle of class seems to be temporarily broken and human beings are liberated; but at the same time, there is no train (social order) protection, human beings are nakedly exposed to dangerous environments. In the ending of 'Us', the protagonists decide to go to Mexico, like Snowpiercer, and the characters decide to return to a state of nature; however, the director does not respond to whether there is an underground world in Mexico, as in Snowpiercer There's no question of whether or not that polar bear will eat girls as well as boys. How to build a relatively better social structure after destroying the existing social order is always a topic worthy of discussion.
Finally, if I can't think of a good closing remark, let's end with the speech about shoes and hats in Snowpiercer. “Order is the barrier that holds back the flood of death. We must all of us on this train of life remain in our allotted station. We must each of us occupy our preordained particular position. Would you wear a shoe on your head? Of of course you wouldn't wear a shoe on your head. A shoe doesn't belong on your head. A shoe belongs on your foot. A hat belongs on your head. I am a hat. You are a shoe. I belong on the head. You belong on the foot. Yes? So it is. In the beginning, order was proscribed by your ticket: First Class, Economy, and freeloaders like you. Eternal order is prescribed by the sacred engine: all things flow from the sacred engine, all things in their place, all passengers in their section, all water flowing. all heat rising, pays homage to the sacred engine,
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