Us
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Peacock PremiumUs is both more existential and more surreal, more playful and more brutal, and, above all, more experimentally distended, exhibiting a newly ...
Welcome to Cheat Sheet, our breakdown-style reviews of festival films, VR previews, and other special-event releases. This review comes from the 2019 SXSW Interactive Festival. It has been updated to coincide with the film’s theatrical release. When Jordan Peele’s directorial debut Get Out hit screens in 2017, it was a revelation.Us doesn’t foreground its social metaphor as openly as Get Out, but it’s baked into the premise just as thoroughly. At the post-premiere Q&A at SXSW, Peele said the film is fundamentally about America’s misplaced fear of outsiders.
