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Jordyep
CONTAINS SPOILERS8/10  5 years ago
Great movie, but what exactly are you trying to say, Peele?
How do I make sense of the weirdness in your film?

Are you trying to say that those who unite to build a wall, those who use their scizzors to divide other people in half, can’t see the light in the ‘US’?
[spoiler] Is the twist meant to indicate that we can’t be sure who’s on which side? [/spoiler]
In other words: is this a big political metaphor, a critique against republicans?
Then again, you can also find themes about capitalism and class here, it’s so ambiguous and broad that it’s not being very precise on a subtextual level. Not that a movie has to, but this is a little too broad for my taste.

Still, great craftsmanship, really well acted, memorable, scary, funny, it’s very good.
The whole [spoiler] 300 million people are living underground [/spoiler] reveal might be a little too much of a leap, I don’t think the movie was that fantastical up until that point (a similar problem that I have with _Get Out_, where the [spoiler] brain replacement [/spoiler] twist kinda feels a little too out there compared to the movie preceding it).

7.5/10
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Reply by dridriov
5 years ago
No. It's a critique against communism (Red) / socialism - those who want something for nothing
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Reply by the.summy
5 years ago
@dridriov I think the director says you read what you will into it and there's no definitive answer.... but you thought the species kept underground and subjugated "want something for nothing"? That's a pretty uncompassionate interpretation. I read the film as anticapitalist fwiw.
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Reply by djryan
5 years ago
@dridriov Go watch it again
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