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Jordan Peele's Us was a very interesting horror movie. Just like his previous movie, Get Out, it did show us the ugly sides of our society. This time it was mostly about the huge gap between the rich and the poor and the influences they have on each other.
The movie was well made for the most part, but I did have a few issues with it because some things didn't seem to make much sense.
No clear rules
Movies don't always need to be realistic, it would be really boring if all movies would feel like documentaries. It's exciting to see all kinds of worlds on the screen, no matter how crazy they seem to be, but there is one condition they must fulfill. They must stick to the rules that are established throughout the movie.Unfortunately I feel like Us doesn't really do that. It's an interesting concept that the originals have a direct influence on their doppelgangers, but it seems to happen completely randomly in the story.
For example, we can see that the father and his doppelganger both scratch their nose at the same time and later the original smashes his head against the side of the boat and the doppelganger gets hurt as well. This implies that the doppelgangers must feel a lot of pain, or even die themselves, if they attack their original, but when the neighbors got murdered, none of the doppelgangers seemed to experience any pain at all. If you are not gonna be consistent with it, why put it in the movie in the first place?
Another strange scene is the one where Jason walks backwards and makes his double walk into the fire. Why did he have the ability to do that all of the sudden? This was the only scene in the movie where something like this happened, so it didn't feel very convincing. Maybe they could have done more with this concept. We know that the doppelgangers were basically controlled all the time when they were underground, it just felt a bit too random to have just this one scene of Jason actively controlling his double.
The twist didn't make any sense
There was a big twist at the end of the movie, when we find out that the mother was actually the doppelganger all along and that she killed her original. I actually really liked this twist at first, but the more I thought about it, the more it didn't seem to match with the rest of the story.We know that the doppelgangers underground were mirroring the actions of their originals. It seems they cloned every single person and the clones were somehow able to find the same partners and have the exact same children as the originals, which seems very far fetched, but lets just accept it as part of the film's rules.
The problem is that in case of the mother the original version was actually underground. Then why would she mirror the actions of her doppelganger? In the movie we can see that it is always the other way around. We can see her talking that she didn't have any other choice, but is that really true?
She knew about her real family and it's not like the underground was heavily guarded, it seems like she should have been able to walk out much sooner.
Why not leave it more ambiguous?
Even though it doesn't seem very logical in the movie, I like the message Jordan Peele wants to tell us with this ending. We are all equal human beings and all of us could be born in poverty, if we were unlucky. That's why we need to help each other and the government needs to take better care of its people.I think this movie would have worked much better if it focused more on its symbolic meanings and left things a bit more ambiguous. By trying to explain all of the details and putting it against a more realistic background, it accidentally took a lot of believability out of its story.
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