‘Us’: Don’t Compare it to ‘Get Out’, We Off That

Us is a masterfully layered thriller in which the intricate details of each scene build the story and complicate the narrative at every turn. This article will begin as a review then twist and turn building into an angle point of view piece. So – at the very end of the article I’ll be spoiling some things, but have no fear, I will warn you way before it happens This film is unexpected just as the trailer has you believe. Writer, Director and Executive Producer, Jordan Peele’s mind is a maze of experimental blackness with closets and hidden doorways built into the twists and turns – so he writes these films that allow him to watch us get lost in his labyrinth as he smirks and laughs the whole way through. All that to say… yea he’s a genius. As a group of friends and I were pontificating after the film, we could not move away from the metaphor of Peele being the modern Hitchcock. In true black nature we said the “Black Hitchcock,” but to get out of this type of dichotomy I’ll say the modern Hitchcock. “WE ARE AMERICANS” From the very first scene, we are drawn into a psychological tunnel. We are presented with a slowly widening shot of rabbits in a cage, in what looks like a classroom, then flung into the story of a young girl (played by newcomer and phenomenal talent Madison Curry) in 1986 with her family at the boardwalk carnival. We are then taken back to this moment throughout the film, highlighting a traumatic moment the little girl has in a mirror fun house where she meets…