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In class this week we discussed “Get Out” and “Us” in further detail. We compared the two horror films and came to the conclusion that “Get Out” is more simple. “Us” is a horror film about a woman named Adelaide that takes her family to her childhood town in Santa Cruz. Adelaide has had childhood trauma in Santa Cruz, so the movie is based on and foreshadows those moments. As they are staying there, one night they experience something very traumatic. The whole family sees from afar a family of four standing in their driveway. Since it is dark and far, they can’t see their faces, so the dad tries to scare them off. Later on in the movie they found out this family of four looks exactly like them and are called tethered. There is definitely more action and horror happening in this movie, and I would say it is scarier than “Get Out.” The movie showed each family member battling with their tethers, which I really enjoyed. I like movies that show multiple things happening at once in different scenes, and “Us” definitely delivered that. I also really enjoyed how in the movie they showed that the tethered Adelaide is shown as a puppy and follows the same movements that the real one does. I believe that this makes the movie more creepy and interesting to watch. I also really liked how none of the tethers can talk, except Adelaide, also known as Red. Red was the only one able to speak with a scary raspy voice, which we later found out was because she was the real Adelaide. My favorite part of the movie, just like “Get Out” , was the ending because there was a huge plot twist. I enjoyed the ending more than “Get Out” because it was so much more twisted and tied in the whole movie and foreshadowed Adelaide’s childhood. At the end of the movie, it shows Adelaide going to the underground world to save her son Jason, who was taken by her tethered twin, Red. Adelaide and Red then have a fight; only Adelaide fights violently, while Red fights calmly, which I thought was strange. Adelaide ends up winning the fight, or so we thought. Adelaide ends up meeting up with her family, and everything seems fine until a memory from her childhood is shown. When Adelaide was a child in Santa Cruz, she found a mirror on the beach where she saw her reflection, but her reflection was really Red, who attacked her and took her place in disguise. So really Adelaide’s whole life has been Red disguised as her. That plot twist made me stare at my screen for ten minutes in shock, because I would have never guessed that. It was also one of the best plot twists I have ever experienced in a movie, and after watching both “Get Out” and “Us,” it is safe to say I will be watching more of Jordan Peele’s movies. “Us” was the movie I watched with my sister while she took this course at UCLA, so I already knew what happened, but rewatching it made me realize why I enjoyed it so much in the first place. This movie kept my whole family shocked, and none of us would have been able to guess what happened at the end.