So it seems like Us was hailed as one of the horror masterpieces of our time, but is it really? Or is it just an overrated piece of trash that relies on 2019 social commentary to win critical praise? Let's find out.
@@B0Sajwah I plan to get a house, but first i need a gun. . Now i live in an apartment on the first floor and a lot of times wondering what would i do if someone would break in.
Lol look at the house they are living in definitely worth a million or more considering it's in santa cruz and in a neighborhood like that generally crime is the least of their worries they probably never even felt the need to own any type of protection, also california gun laws...
@@strahinjagov Lol what kind of reasoning is that? Having guns in your movie or tv show doesn't automatically make you pro gun otherwise all of hollywood would be considered pro gun... Do you even think before you comment lol it's not hard to do...
I love that Family Guy bit when Peter says, "I don't think Jordan Peele really has the talent most people give him credit for." Then it jump cuts to Peter on tv giving a public apology. 🤣
I don't really care about that, I'm not a whiney bitch that needs to feel proud of my race and for the same reason I can not feel offended by anything like this. If Peele prefers it that way, he can go ahead. It's his film right? Many white directors, if answering honestly, would not hire black leads. I don't care about that either.
Denker Bosu I’m not racist moron. I support actors and actresses that are black. He is the one that has a race issue. And I don’t support someone like that. I wouldn’t support a white producer who said he or she would never use anything other than white people.
I think Stephen King said it best: “a subtext only works if it is unobtrusive”. The problem with too many message movies today is that they make the subtext the main text. And that is just a foundation of sand.
secret hidden underground basement, occupied (guarded) only by white rabbits, either there's some sort of Monty Python joke there I'm missing or he's not even trying
“The Tethered are trapped in an existence of endless emptiness, mindlessly replicating the actions of real people” Perhaps the film is an autobiographical work?
"Cool isn't anything but a cheap endorphin hit that comes and goes with no lasting impression" Damn. Someone just slapped Mom at the dinner table and we're all pretending we didn't notice.
I am my other's... I was one of the few people I know who thought Get Out was kinda lame. I can't watch movies at all anymore and can't imagine even trying this.
This is the thing about JJ the Jet plane, he knows how to set up the mystery box but when you open it most of the time it's full of useless crap you spent too much on.
Peele has said he comes up with ideas for movies while smoking weed. Then, tries to tie them together while sober. Gives you insight into his creative process.
Hemingway did the same with alcohol. The trouble being that alcohol makes you less inhibited and therefore more creative, while weed makes you dumb and sedated. I say that as a weed smoker who dislikes alcohol. But let's be real here. All these weed smoking "geniuses" are just idiots who don't know how idiotic they have become.
@@elektrozil9728 I stopped smoking weed because of that fucking indica haze shit. Everyone always wants to sell some crystal looking sticky haze to make big bucks on the street and all I want is some mild sativa. I hope my stupid government will some day come to its senses and let us homegrow legally, instead of raiding ppl for a bit of weed.
Hypocrite SJWs denounce racism... Unless it's against whites. Then it's perfectly fine. Don't bother pointing that out though, or you'll get called a racist.
@@denkerbosu3551 maybe. And it was the most clichéd upbringing - he was a biracial kid raised by a single white momma. Maybe that's why whitey bad or something...
@@SFforlife what's with the weird victim complex? I've never met a sjw outside of Twitter. This is a bad movie that will tank on its own demerits... Stop with the constant identity politics and grievance it's so tedious
The problem with this movie was that it explained everything we didn’t want to have explained and didn’t explain anything we would’ve wanted to get explained.
Let me get this straight... So when the leading lady was young, she found a phantom menace. Then as an adult, she experienced an attack of clones. Then there was some business about revenge. It's like poetry.
If ever there is a sequel they'll lead you to believe that they have found a new hope. Before actually showing that the empire of the clones strikes back to end on the Return of the Family
As I listened to your review, one of the first things that made me realize that this movie wasn't going to work was, knowing as I do that it's based on the classic Twilight Zone episode "mirror image", much of the horror of that episode comes from not knowing or understanding where the doppelgangers come from, what their intentions are, and their nature. Frankly, we only guess that they're evil based on their malefic smiles, it's never really made clear. In "Us", the seeming necessity of the plot to be as twisty as possible causes the exposition about what The Tethered are, where they come from, etc. To be almost entirely explored by the end of the film. By defining the terms of these characters, the horror is removed.
Us is literally the Pagan re-telling of a goddess Innana descending into the underworld. Jordan Peele got you guys thinking he came up with these themes himself when most of them are Sumerian.
How. Is the descent of Innana a class allegory where clones of real people staging a revolution where they kill their real counterparts? Or do the similarities just end at literally a girl going underground.. aight ig that’s enough to make him a plagiarist
Me, 20 minutes before the ending: This movie ain't so bad, why do people hate this?! Me, 20 minutes later: Oh my god. I had no idea someone could fit so far up their own ass.
Get Out had me feeling that way the entire time. I will never give that guy a chance again. His ripoff and cheap version of Chappelle's Show was bad enough, now we are subjected to his movies.
@@notsocrates9529 We turned 'Us' off about half way through.......it was slow, boring, confusing, stupid (lacking logic in just about everything they did!!) and not ONCE was it in the slightest bit scary!! And believe me, we DO give films that actually have deep, philosophical meanings a chance IF they allow you to think for yourselves as to what a film is trying to explore, other than the superficial surface of it's genre (Horror, History, Western, even Comedy!!). The Babadook as a perfect example!!
@@hulkfan97 Donnie Darko is an even better example than The Babadook! Even straight up thrillers that subvert your expectations, with twists & turns throughout the film, like the Cohen brothers brilliant Blood Simple!!
"Hey Jordan, I know your movie has really deep themes and looks good and stuff, but how does most of the stuff in it actually happen and why?" "Don't know!"
Honestly, I got surprised by your analysis: Taking what people says about Jordan Peele, I thought the movie was bad because of some woke message shoved down the throats of the audience, that completely ruined the plot. Instead, it's just a case of "good premise, bad execution": 1- Too much stuff explained and exposed, making the main villains lose the terrifying aura they had, and ruining the "horror effect" 2- Characters being either too dumb or either too capable of fighting the main villains. Maybe it's because I'm not american, or maybe it's because the Author really failed hard on selling the said "message" and "social commentary", but I didn't saw none of these two things. Even the government part, for me, sounded more like a failed attempt of making a cool, edgy concept, rather than some try of doing a political commentary about society.
You can watch Film Theory's video on the messages of the movie that can give you a better understand of the meta narrative. But the issue with this movie was that the writer focused too much on what the meta narrative was rather than what the narrative is.
I didn't see it either, I just thought it was a bad horror movie. But I'm not American. When I watch an horror movie, I'm not in the mood to see social commentary in it, I just want to be scared or weird out, and that movie failed to do so.
Exactly this. I am an American and picked up on zero political commentary. I think because the video creator can’t pronounce the main actors last name🙄 (like we get it you’re racist), or that a horror movie doesn’t have guns (most don’t as it’d quickly end the movie) that they believe it’s political. They want a movie with white actors with easy to pronounce names and tons of shooting guns in order to believe that this shitty movie is not political.
I don’t recall these people bitching about there being no guns in almost every horror movie created by white people starring white people where the only black characters are the ones killed first.
@@angermacfadden2702 But it tastes awful. (Bad dumb tsss). In all seriousness, Scots and Scots Irish have eaten haggis and blood pudding like meals for a long time. Although most newer recipes only include sweet meat (the liver chopped fine). Historically, haggis included brain,lung, and tongue in addition to liver and kidney packed with oats into a sheep stomach as a casing. Nowadays, the risk of different infections, combined with the variety of supplementation in dietary choices, means no one wants to eat the "historical" variety, just like lutefisk. A food I had only seen from afar until my Norwegian immigrant grandmother friend invited me to eat the stuff. I don't recommend it unless you plan on living full hippy with no lifestyle vlog or blog photography to satisfy.
@@jeffblacklight104 it's a new subgenre: the pseudo-intellectual horror film: Heredity, Midsommar, Suspiria remake, VVitch, and a piece of excrement called The Lighthouse. NONE of those films come anywhere near to "The Lodge."
When I watched the movie, I felt genuinely entertained, the characters were interesting and the plot was engaging but after it ended I thought it didn’t make a lot of sense and I have mostly forgotten about it since. Spot on review.
I think the biggest plot question is if the government did make this number of clones, how the hell did they continue to survive after the government stopped spending the money it would take to feed hundreds of millions of people
It definitely has its flaws but I enjoyed it quite a bit for all the positive elements that The Drinker points out. The ending isn't amazing but it took me on a nice little journey all the same.
Its a shame that films like these are classed as good. I shudder to think in 10 years time, the catalogue of films we have . Im just collecting all the old films and have just given up on modern cinema
Good movies are rare in general, most old movies are also schlock, but there’s plenty of great modern movies: gone girl, moonlight, black swan, whiplash, 12 years a slave, grand budapest hotel etc..
God damn, being the hammer and hitting that nail perfectly. I truly think it was one of those movies where the acting was so spot on that everyone could walk away with a glowing review before the "wait a minute" set in.
the episode of the twilight zone "mirror image" whats it's plot back! And Peele needs to find original ideas... cause Get Out was again nothing original.
I would recommend actually watching this movie, and please come back and tell me what you think of it and put it up against what this reviewer missed and didn't understand. I don't think the reviewer watched it, honestly I don't think that he watched this this, it's one of the better movies out there. The problems he is citing aren't actually in the movie or something unresolved.
@@Starry2000 Like what? Drunk guy made claims, so quote them and provide instances to refute them. Which problems that he's citing aren't in the movie?
@@Theyungcity23 Women have thousands of different eggs and men produce billions of different sperm in their lives. How in the hell would the offspring have the exact same set of genes? Meiosis isn't mitosis.
My Generation Z coworker, can't fathom how much I was not impressed with this movie. Jordan Peele is one for three in cinematic endeavors with me now. Also, Event Horizon is a LEGITIMATE horror movie!
I am convinced all of the bad movies and shows have effected the younger generation, because they are being taught to accept garbage stories because they aren’t used to seeing movies with a solid plot. We can pick out plot holes and bad story telling immediately.
As often happens with modern horror, trying to explain things logically is where everything falls apart. There's a reason some of the best horror relies on ambiguity and mystery to keep the audience's suspension of disbelief intact. Most of the time it just doesn't make any sense when it's all laid out.
I feel that the movie would make more sense if they had the clones snap out of their copying phases by the real people dying by accidents. Then we would cut to one in the dark tunnels being snapped out of their trance and realizing where they are and what's going on as if they were in the matrix the whole time. So maybe the clones start trying to snap the others but to no avail until the copies go to the surface and kill the real people so their copies woke up and gain independence and try to live the lives we always wanted. I don't know, that's my two cents on how to improve it.
I cant believe people actually get hired in Hollywood to write movies for actual money, then some random person on RU-vid, (no offence), writes a better film in a bloody comment. Nice.
@@heroesunited2686 ha ha he he. You assholes who could never write a competent story yourselves love criticizing a filmmaker who had sophomore syndrome like everyone else and missed the mark on his hard worked piece of art, so you mock and berate someone who is literally just trying to create interesting films with a lens of social commentary. Of course get out was better, but this is a good misstep for Peele and I think he’s going to learn and do better
@@justajawausingwifi4642 JJ has produced some good films/shows (at least imo). Cloverfield, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Super 8, M.I 6, Lost... Jordan Peele has nothing good.
@@chrisgreig98 ok I forgot MI6 and Cloverfield but at the same time his pattern as of late has been copying other things. But I'll agree, Peele seems to have things that look interesting but fall apart and are overrated. I thought about seeing Us, but the big takeaway is in the trailer and hearing the plot from Drinker I'm glad I didn't, his racial stances included
@@chrisgreig98 Cloverfield is a nothing movie. Lost? Bleh...JJ is a hack who claims he's the modern Spielberg. Peele's movies are at least somewhat interesting
3:34 "The Tethered are trapped in an existence of endless emptiness, mindlessly replicating the actions of real people, but having no real understanding of who they are or what they're doing..." So, they're basically just regular people, then?
Does the movie ever explain how the Tethered managed to eat all this time? Or cut their hair? Manage disease? I haven't seen it, but this review didn't answer those questions...
8:24 & 9:40 Oh, shirt! I just watched a Close Enough episode that also had The Triumph of Themes Over Substance with a shocking twist just to mess with us. In Cyber Matrix, Alex Dorpenberger was mad about phones keeping people from contacting each other, until he loses his old phone, buys a new phone, and sees the appeal behind phones that give you all the information on the internet. Kira, his new phone, tries to download him into the internet forever. Then Josh comes in to help Alex, and they stop the phone from taking his consciousness away from his body forever by telling the calculator to find the 10 trillionth digit of pi and multiply it by 2. Everyone else used explosives to put the boulder on a cell phone tower to save Alex and Josh, but then Josh glitches again, and then out of nowhere, it was a super mega twist in which Kira had already enslaved them all and put them in Kira pods before the beginning of this plot, and we have no answer to it. It makes just as much sense as "Adelaide was the clone all along." Maybe even less. June 5, 2021, 3:00am
@@Hopium500 because it triggers sensative snowflakes that think blood is racist? It triggers flat earthers because they think space isn't real? It triggers SJWs because a female didn't have the lead role? Idk...I could venture a guess on an actual reason but I'd probably be wrong. One the things Event Horizon showcased, at the time was the ability to have a modern horror scifi flick of old with the terror, blood and sheer gore that had started to be lost in favor of newer movies just spraying blood around with no point of origin or reference to the mutilation that occurred. Let alone the plot basis as to why it happened...add in the illustration of what happened...made for an incredible movie. Sorry, forgot to add that alot of people had grown away from that and to see it in cinema may have been unsettling...just fyi, notice we haven't had any major combat movies to the depth of what the intro of saving private ryan was like or even close to what either band of brothers showcased. Hack saw ridge tried...a fair movie but the level of illustration to showcase the results of combat brutality and injury failed pretty bad and he was medic. Last movie I saw with anything of an effort good enough was the landmine scene in tropic thunder...
After seeing Filmento's piss poor appemt to cover the film as a failue, only to subvert exptaions and praise it without pointing out its dumb flaws (the plot twist at the end especially). The fact your vid exist is an honest to God breath of freash air. Thank You.
I actually watched this movie, probably during the Pandemic, and totally forgot about it until running across this video, which explained why. Thanks, Drinker.
Why would children be watching a review of a movie that is not made for children? If they do, go take it up with their shitty parents and not this guy.
Outstanding review! You provide an excellent celebration of the film's and cast's positive elements whilst not holding back on your opinion of the failures. I often wonder if these "themes" in films always exist, or if it's just other movie critics trying to be clever and apeing each other, like a social media echo chamber. You are invariably correct, Mr McDrinker, in your reviews. I've seen many films, which, whilst I've enjoyed them, they've left me feeling that they were rushed, unfinished. That they were good ideas that could be developed into a good film.... Making me think that movie studios truly don't care about the quality of the film. They just want to churn out movies, regardless...
"Bachanalian Masterpiece"...I think I understand what's missing, the reverence of story telling as a tradition, not just a pay check. I find your channel name fitting for the content you make, Bachanalia and the Dionysus festival were considered religious events with plays. The Satyrs are sorely needed nowadays.
@@africanhistory Yes the reviews for the latest Star Wars is a perfect example. The Left rigged it even though most people hated it. I guess you are a Mainstream news watcher as they don't talk about it, But look up Star Wars 86% rotten Tomato score here on youtube and behold the Scam.
The 'Hands Across America' thing seemed pretty cool, like a bastardization of what it originally stood for, what with the murderous clones lining up after freshly murdering their overworld counterpart.
Speaking of movies about clones, at least The Island had a comprehensive story. Clones created to be spare parts for millionaires and billionaires that might become injured or need an organ or 2 to be replaced. That sure explains the funding for how it was possible, the motives, the reasons for the story, and so on. Honestly a movie I recommend to anyone that hasn't seen it. Frankly it's one of Michael Bay's best.
If they didn't explain where the clones came from, then it would've been so much better, a lot better than some scientific experiment (which straight up made me laugh).
I haven’t seen this movie, but i almost turned this review off at first because the initial description of the plot seemed intriguing and worth a look. Now that I know the twist, I’ll pass. So much potential with that premise.
If it wasn't explained then this movie would just be a mediocre horror movie that isn't scary. They should've explained it subtlety, rather than just a 10 minute exposition scene.
VOKZEL true. Like dropping hints and subtle connections here and there (like Jacob’s Ladder, for example), so the audience can draw their own conclusions.
The worst part about it is he's mixed race. His mother is white and she raised him by herself because his father wasn't in the picture. But by all means, hate white people
Even though Drinker makes some excellent points, my biggest reason for revisiting this video is the “get fucked” and “fuck off!” deliveries. There’s something satisfying and cathartic in hearing him say that
Most do just not critical drinker cuz he’s not a good critic. He constantly misses important plot points and automatically hates a movie just cuz he disagrees with the message
@@TheAlienGangster Absolutely the words racist, sexist, fascist, rape/sexual assault, misogyny and any kind of "phobe" are thrown around so much now it's more of a badge of honor than an insult when someone calls you one of these things. It's basically a leftist who can't defend their viewpoint admitting defeat!
@@GeneralG1810 Bro as a leftest trust me we hate liberals to. They're some of the most insufferable people ever so please you can hate us but don't hate us for what the liberals do because I don't give a shit about whatever the SJW cancel culture doing I just want socialism and the ability to smoke week.
@@spacemarine3482 Yeah because socialism has be so fucking successful in the past! I agree weed should be legal but if you believe that socialism bullshit then you're an imbecile! It's easy to be a socialist in a western country, here's a thought if you want more out of life stop smoking weed and go out and EARN it!
@@GeneralG1810 I'm not going to fight you on whether socialism is good or not it wasn't my point my opinion isn't going to change yours. The point of my comment was to tell you that socialist and liberals aren't the same so don't confuse the two.
2 years later this came up in my feed, and in the first 2 minutes I was like, "this is the perfect description of why I hate the movie NOPE." Then I realized it's the same director. Makes sense now
Wait “Red” didn’t just break free of her programming… because they mimic their counterparts actions when the little girl went into the funhouse “Red” also went in, then she dragged the real girl downstairs and switched places. So the whole time the one we thought was the original (with the family leading a normal life) was actually a clone, and it’s the original girl that wants her life back so she taught the others in the bunker to rise up. Or did I not get the movie?
And, to make things worse, Jordan Peele is going to do a remake of Candyman, which was a good horror movie based on a Clive Barker's story .. It will be all this "black people good White people bad thing" again
See it's funny I do like Jordan Peele's work. I won't lie it's mostly nostalgia cause he was funny on MadTv back in the day. I just learned he's doing Candyman remake and I got happy. But then I just realized you're right it's gonna be the same ol shtick. I know I was pretty unhappy when he said he wouldn't have a white star.
I really appreciate that you see the plot holes in this film in contrast to the unconditional praise that 'film critics' have showered all over it. I, too, wondered about some of the nonsensical elements permeating the entire film as well as appropriating the acting prowess of the cast members.
I actually enjoyed the first 70% of the film or so - the set-up was well done and left me wondering what was coming around the bend next: then the awful reveal came about - that some ten-year-old girl pulled off a logistical feat that even the likes of Hannibal Barca and Erwin Rommel couldn’t have pulled off in the same situation! Seriously, these “tethered” (which are essentially Demi-human semi-zombies) had no functioning society *at all* and yet this kid was able to organize them en mass towards a singular purpose while seeing to it that they were properly equipped for the task: this is impossible - it would take her many long years just to establish anything that resembles a functional society at all and I doubt that her fledgling society would be in any condition for such an operation (assuming that she had any degree of success in organizing the semi-zombies at all...). That reveal destroyed my suspension of disbelief and I call into question Peele’s writing credentials as a result of this...
This movie reminds me of mixture of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" from the 1956 or George Romeros "Night of the living dead" from 1968 but with no message.
Souljastation 5 Even with several decades, she would not have been able to execute this plan - the Demi-human semi-zombies have limited capacity for communication, no social structure of any kind in place and no knowledge of the outside world other than their experiences through other people’s thoughts! Just setting up a basic social structure for a group this large would have taken a lifetime!
@@FrankCastle-tq9bz In fact the other severed just kill people, make guttural sounds, and the only complex thing they can do is "hands across America". This is no complex social structure.
Souljastation 5 That is precisely what I am saying - these Demi-human semi-zombies don’t have a functioning society and thus couldn’t execute this plan!
When the woman, in the most cliche "scary" voice, says "We..are...Americans", I cringed so hard that I checked out of the rest of the movie. It felt like he wrote that thinking "This is so clever", but like most of his writing, it's trying to be smarter than it actually is.
@@Theyungcity23 She's is actually answering the question with "We are Americans". The movie is a metaphor. Not coincidentally, it's called Us...U.S. However, subtlety goes a long way in subtext. He seems afraid everyone will miss how "brilliant" and deep the metaphors are, so he makes sure to spell it out in his movies. "We are Americans" was something that everyone was supposed to sit back and be floored by how deep it is. There's a reason filmmakers like Kubrick are regarded as the greatest and their films discussed for decades. The cleverness is in the nuance, subtlety, and ambiguity that gets people wanting to discuss rather than be told. Peele tries hard to appear to be brilliant with subtext, yet the writing makes it very obvious, blunt, and forced. That's why he isn't as clever as he tries to appear to be.
@@thisguydan she wasn't asking Red what country she is from. The actual answer is that they are clones with the goal of killing them or the Tethered. It's a joke. I don't see that as being blunt. It's a joke.
@@Theyungcity23 The movie is not actually about clones or tethered or anything like that. The movie is entirely a metaphor. Peele did not write that as a joke. He wrote it to be deep so people would see the metaphor. If it seemed like a joke when he was being serious, then that's just how cringe it was.
0:28 - Angela Bassett in "Black Panther" - she's one month older than I am (two weeks older than Michael Jackson would have been) - and she looks FABULOUS...
I actually really want to review Event Horizon. Really good merging of sci-fi and horror, with some pretty unsettling scenes. Hard to believe it was made by the same guy who did Resident fucking Evil.
Peele is a lot like Shamalan. He had one ground breaking hit (debatable) as his first movie, he got a massive ego, and now all his movies are the same crap that people will get tired of quickly
@Cole YoungGood: The sixth sense, Unbreakable, Split, debatable: Signs, The Village, The Visit, Glass Bad: Lady in the water, The happening, Last airbender, After Earth. He's not overall a bad director , just had some terrible movies.
This movies entire concept can immediately make zero sense if the audience asks literally 2 questions. What happens if the tethered have counterparts that live on military bases. And what about the fact that the US has the highest number of armed civilians on the entire planet? The tethered are shown to only have scissors as a consistent weapon, and military bases are constantly being guarded around the clock by men armed with M4s who are trained on exactly what to do if they are attacked. The event shown in the movie who have immediately been noticed by the US military, who would have immediately responded to this and likely declared marshal law. The movie portrays the hands across America event that the tethered pulled as being mostly successful, when in reality the tethered would have been successful at best 50% of the time. Youre not gonna win a fight against someone armed with a gun when all you have is a pair of scissors and wouldnt be able to break into most peoples homes without making a very loud noise.
@@samuelmiller4964 the idea being that he's given undeserved accolades for average to decent product, as hollyweird is apt to do these days, is the point, no? 'get out' was actually nominated for best picture. uhm... huh? it was an okay movie, but faaaaaar from warranting that level of acclaim. yeah, he may be half white, although you wouldn't know it to look at him, but would he be drowning in an embarrassment of praise were he white and republican? rather doubtful, eh?
Jordan Peele is just taking advantage of his situation. He is targeting a specific demographic, the "woke". Hollywood wants to not appear racist so they elevate him, and viewers want to not appear racist so they rant and rave over his mediocre work.
@@ryanbarker5217 Oh,i'm with you there,trust me i'm still scratching my head on the whole "get out!" thing,i was addressing him being racsist and yes i believe white male republcans r under the gun due to the misdeeds of other WMRs,u know "sins of the father" and all. But yeah,he's over rated A.F.!!!
Michael Ivan Get out was hot garbage. Peele can't direct shit. It was a big 'boohoo poor black people' movie. As a black man, those are the fucking worst.
I honestly thought that I was the only one who considered the movie to be bland since everyone else was saying the film was a masterpiece. Glad I'm not the only one who noticed it's lameness.
The one thing that really stood out to me about the movie (to its credit) was the subtle hinting at the misery of the relationship between the doppelgänger husband and wife. Since they had no will of their own, when the real Adelaide and her husband conceived children, the doppelgängers must’ve been forced to commit the same act. In a sense, that made both doppelgängers into unwilling rapists, and I could see real sorrow in the fake husband’s face over what he’d done. That’s a twisted concept that I think gave the clones real, genuine motivation to kill their counterparts, and it left an impression on me and the people I watched Us with
Government is the cure for a problem that it itself created, and the answer to a question that it itself asked. Government: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
One of the stupidest parts of this film was when they disparaged the dad for wanting to hunker down in the house and set Home Alone style traps for the Tethered. I mean, that seemed like the perfectly logical thing to do. Fortify the zone they're familiar with, which they already know contains food, resources, electricity, and water - especially considering the dad is injured and should spend some time recovering. As opposed to venturing out into the wider world, with unknown numbers of threats... which, of course, is exactly what they ended up doing.
