04-09-2019, 10:26 AM
***Spoilers ahead. Please don't continue reading if you haven't seen Us yet. It is so worth not having a single thing spoiled.***
I thought Us was a really good movie, if for no other reason than it made you question who was the bad guy by the end of it. Movies that take a straight forward concept and make it not as clear always get a gold star in my book.
Where it fell apart was the actual logic within the universe. Like...the clones seemed to be forced to do the exact same thing as those above them, except when they didn't. The young boy, for example, had to mimic his mirror perfectly (to the extent of just outright killing himself), but the clones of daughter and husband (and almost every other tethered we see in the movie) was not bound by the rule once they were on the surface. And what happens when someone moves to a new city? Does the clone somehow teleport to the tunnels under that new city? Or do they only mimic the gestures and emotions of the person rather than their literal movement? And, if Adelaide was the tethered at first, how did she break her tether to come up the escalator to meet Red in the first place? Why did living in the tunnels almost instantly turn Red into the tethered, despite being in control for the ~9 years prior to that?
To continue with the questions that this story created, who was feeding the rabbits? Were they just reproducing so fast that they didn't need actual food? Because I can't imagine the tethered were feeding them anything...And who was preparing the rabbits to be eaten in the similar fashion that the normal people were eating carnival food? If someone were in a car and got into a crash, how would the tethered recreate this act, since we saw with the people on the roller coaster that they are not actually experiencing the momentum of the ride, just simulating the vibrations of it.
I really liked the symbolism and message (it can be interpreted many different ways, but the basic message I received from the movie was the main thing separating poor/uneducated/violent people and normal people is opportunity. Adelaide was a tethered, but she still led an extremely fulfilling life simply by being given the chance and resources afforded to normal people), but you kind of had to suspend your disbelief on all of these questions to really appreciate the movie. The story could have been more logical and more tightly wound and still gotten that message across.
The bottom line is I loved the movie, but wished they had made more of an effort to ground it in the logic of the universe they created (expecting real world logic out of a fantasy horror is unrealistic, but expecting a fantasy horror to follow its own rules is not unrealistic, in my opinion).
I thought Us was a really good movie, if for no other reason than it made you question who was the bad guy by the end of it. Movies that take a straight forward concept and make it not as clear always get a gold star in my book.
Where it fell apart was the actual logic within the universe. Like...the clones seemed to be forced to do the exact same thing as those above them, except when they didn't. The young boy, for example, had to mimic his mirror perfectly (to the extent of just outright killing himself), but the clones of daughter and husband (and almost every other tethered we see in the movie) was not bound by the rule once they were on the surface. And what happens when someone moves to a new city? Does the clone somehow teleport to the tunnels under that new city? Or do they only mimic the gestures and emotions of the person rather than their literal movement? And, if Adelaide was the tethered at first, how did she break her tether to come up the escalator to meet Red in the first place? Why did living in the tunnels almost instantly turn Red into the tethered, despite being in control for the ~9 years prior to that?
To continue with the questions that this story created, who was feeding the rabbits? Were they just reproducing so fast that they didn't need actual food? Because I can't imagine the tethered were feeding them anything...And who was preparing the rabbits to be eaten in the similar fashion that the normal people were eating carnival food? If someone were in a car and got into a crash, how would the tethered recreate this act, since we saw with the people on the roller coaster that they are not actually experiencing the momentum of the ride, just simulating the vibrations of it.
I really liked the symbolism and message (it can be interpreted many different ways, but the basic message I received from the movie was the main thing separating poor/uneducated/violent people and normal people is opportunity. Adelaide was a tethered, but she still led an extremely fulfilling life simply by being given the chance and resources afforded to normal people), but you kind of had to suspend your disbelief on all of these questions to really appreciate the movie. The story could have been more logical and more tightly wound and still gotten that message across.
The bottom line is I loved the movie, but wished they had made more of an effort to ground it in the logic of the universe they created (expecting real world logic out of a fantasy horror is unrealistic, but expecting a fantasy horror to follow its own rules is not unrealistic, in my opinion).
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