“His hair stood on end, and he almost fell down with horror.
And, indeed, there was good reason.
He recognized his nocturnal visitor.
(Rabbits, by no small coincidence, are a reoccurring image inUs.)
But again, it’s not entirely the who or when that’s intriguing but the why.
Why is the idea of meeting yourself so innately wrong on several levels past a jump scare?
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Our greed, our lust, our vanity, our jealousy, our dark and hidden whatever.
Experience that one for yourself.
(Or selves…)
Peele’sUsis operating on long-standing, well-earned territory, is the point here.
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If you haven’t seenUs, kindly make like Peele himself and Get Out.
(But yo come back when you’re caught up.)
What if you, bad, good, and all, are just…you?
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“Maybe the monster we need to look at is us.”
Usdoesn’t offer any easy answers.
Peele has shown in his first two feature films that he isn’t interested in holding anyone’s hands.
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(Across America or otherwise.)
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