Brilliant Movie. It has been some time since I came out of the movies and just sat down to think for a couple of hours. The last time was probably when I watched Get Out. Jordan Peele again proved, that he is a brilliant director for Horror Movies. But this kind of Horror is not that type, that is wildly popular - Not just the mix of jumpscares and Blood: There is a brilliant story behind this movie.

The acting was brilliant. I did not expect any less from Lupita Nyong’o, and the other main actors, who I did not know so far, played both of their roles perfectly.
The Story was great, sometimes I did not know where in the movie we are right now, and I thought the movie might end now: But it was just in the middle and I kept being excited the whole time.
The Cinematography was perfect. There are many scenes, that are just perfect stills from the movie. Amazing composition. Specially these scenes kept staying in my mind:

- The Family going to the beach, while we mainly see their shadows next to them
- Lupita Nyong’o going down the escalator.
- The Lupita Nyong’o's face in the foregrownd while her other character is in the background right before the "Fight-Scene".
- Jason Wilson as Pluto going backwards toward the fire
- The bunnies in their caves at the beginning
- The "HandsAcrossAmerica" Action by the tethered at the end of the movie
- And so many more.

As expecting from Jordan Peele, there is a deep meaning in the movie. I interpret it as a representation of our society. There is Us, and there are people just like us, but in a different social status with different social conditions.
Those people do not have the social status to have the same education, same development, and same chances of the "upper class".
They don't even know that there is something possible up there, that they don't know about.

It needs one person to start a revolution. One Person who had it all, who knows what is possible, if they would leave their status and try to become more. Without that person they will be stuck "down there" forever - Because they don't know there is more to live for.

The "lower class" are the shadows of the upper class. They can not do as much as them and they do not have the possibilities of them. The analogy of the "reflection" like in a mirror just shows, that only one side can control the other - Not directly the other way around. You can control your reflection in the mirror, but the reflection can't controll you. Justl like when Jason controlled Pluto to go in the fire.

Basically, the action that the tethered did was a revolution. Against the "suppression" of the (what we would call) "normal people".

So it is very difficult to say if that movie is a happy ending or not. It depends on who is good and who is bad - specially since our main character is on the "good / normal" side although she is the reason the whole thing happened in the first place.


All in all, this movie was brilliant. I know there are probably hundreds of details that I have missed, but I love the fact, that there are still directors, that make good movies - specially since basically 95% of all movies that came out in the last 12 months were not good. Maybe enjoyable, but not good.

This is not just a movie to have some entertainment for two hours, this is an intellectual and amazingly made representation of our world. Of _Us_.

I applause Jordan Peele and thank him for this brilliant masterpiece.