![]() ![]() The second act - roughly the middle hour of the 116-minute film - is pretty much perfect, the kind of expertly pitched horror comedy we see far too rarely. The second act follows Adelaide’s and her family’s actions after being menaced by horrifying double versions of themselves - played by the same actors - over the course of one long, gory night. The first act is all unsettling setup - first with a flashback to our protagonist, Adelaide ( Lupita Nyong’o), as a young girl, meeting an eerie mirror version of herself, then to the first few days of a family vacation that she takes with her husband ( Winston Duke) and kids as an adult. Us breaks evenly into a classic three-act structure. So let’s talk first about what happens in that ending and how we could read that ending, and then try to find a way to synthesize all of these ideas. ![]() The audience leaving my screening the other night seemed sharply divided on the film - and its last-minute twist - but I plunged deeper and deeper into it because of that messy, glorious ending. Us is Jordan Peele’s thrilling, blood-curdling allegory about a self-destructing Americaīut I found that approach incredibly engaging.
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