Us

April 15, 2019 00:04:03
Us
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Us

Apr 15 2019 | 00:04:03

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Show Notes

Jordan Peele’s horror film, about people encountering their murderous doubles, has a dark social critique underlying its frightful surface. Jordan Peele has followed up his smash hit debut Get Out with another horror film, this one with a much less comic flavor, simply called Us. The deceptively short title belies the writer-director’s complicated intent. The picture opens in the 1980s, with a little black girl named Adelaide on vacation with her parents at a carnival near the beach at Santa Cruz. She wanders away from her Mom & Dad, entering a spooky house of mirrors where she encounters her double—not…

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