? We, this is Jordan Peele’s last perversion, and I say perversion not in the strictest sense of the word, but in the most critical sense, to break with the current order.
Terror and comedy go hand in hand in this film, interting to build a work that becomes absurd as well as genius. An almost carnival and satirical massacre eventually became a profound critique of capitalism and certainly the world as we know it.
- The strength of his images.
- The attractiveness of the doppelgenger.
- Humor in the most critical moments and the brilliant use of metaphors are based on a political critique of which.
- At first.
- We are not aware of.
While in his first feature film, “Run!”, Jordan Peele embraced criticism of racism in American society, in “We,” he did not make his intentions so clear.
An American family, led by a mother with a deep trauma from the past, will experience a strange event, all the action will last only one night and a few hours.
The protagonists meet a strange family at the door of the house where they will spend their holidays, a reflection or a double of themselves, people like them, but who did not come precisely in search of peace.
The title of the original version? Us ?? us in English?Is it a word game that refers to the United States (United States?United States). This materializes at one of the film’s pivotal moments through the protagonist’s double statement: “Are we Americans?(We are Americans).
And yes, they’re Americans, they’re like the main family, like us, but they’re actually also the price to pay for the “American Dream. “
The theme of double, or doppelgenger, is one of the most explored resources in the art world, especially in literature, a matter closely related to duality, darkness and evil.
Over time, this idea of the double has acquired different connotations: we see different interpretations in Dostoyevsky’s Double and Stevenson’s Doctor and Monster.
The double can also manifest itself in several ways, more or less explicitly, through mirrors, reflections, shadows or by a kind of diabolical twin.
For example, if we think of the mythological character Narcissus, we will see it as one of the first manifestations of the subject, this time, the double appears as a reflection.
In “We,” Jordan Peele is part of this tradition, but he reinvents it and brings it to the present. The first clue we have of the protagonist’s double takes place in the room of the mirrors. That is, in a place that is easily able to distort reality and, at the same time, implies a component of reality and truth.
Thus, in the middle of the mirrors, a child encounters his double, but not with a reflection as you would expect, but with a child exactly like him.
Do we face an evil double? That’s what Peele reminds us of during the film. The clues are in front of our eyes and give us some clues that make us think that nothing is what it looks like and that nothing is a fluke in “we”.
Duality will be present throughout the film: a real world in the face of a copy or parody of this reality.
From a brilliant use of tradition and the question of double, the film uses other metaphors very intelligently to finally reach a kind of contemporary William Wilson, in which one ends up stabbing.
What is the signal that sometimes appears?Jeremiah 11:11 Unsurprisingly, the text refers to a biblical quotation that says, “I will bring you calamities from which you cannot escape. “Even if they yell at me, won’t I listen to them?
In the film, we don’t have a God who judges man, but we have humans who thought they were gods, we have a terrifying truth and a persecution that leaves no room for hope.
The verse is therefore a kind of synopsis of what we will see, as a hidden truth that we will discover at some point.
? Jorden Peele transforms us, several times, into a terrifying version of Alice in Wonderland, only instead of falling into a lair or going through a mirror, here we discover a terrible truth.
The appearance of rabbits in the film has an even greater meaning, being the way to the underground and fantastic world that Alice found and that, in “We”, is a kind of parody of our world.
On the other hand, we also found a reference to the recent past: in the 1980s a campaign called Hands Across America was held in the United States, with the aim of forming a human chain and raising funds for the poorest.
The campaign failed enormously and the company preferred to stick to television. This event was represented in “We”, but in this case it will not be a peaceful and encouraging act, but a real blood bath.
Do we?articulate a film that fits perfectly into the fundamentals of the horror genre, uses a traditional element like the lookalike to eventually lead to a fierce critique of capitalism.
Peele’s agile pace and ability to direct our gaze make us?Even escape at certain moments of his film genre.
Peele becomes a director capable of playing the drum at the most intense and dramatic moment, able to silence the most crucial moment with a big blast.
In the midst of terror, humor also has its place. Putting a joke or two in the middle of “we,” Jordan Peele awakens us from terror, lets us breathe and relieves our anguish.
In this way, the film adapts perfectly to horror lovers and also to those who are most afraid.
Few movies usually scare me, and I admit that? He managed, in a few moments, to make me tremble. But just as fear began to envelop me, laughter interrupted the process, not to mention a huge political burden. This is because criticism is, in fact, a key aspect of “we. “
Peele again criticizes racism, yielding the roles of protagonists to black actors in an election that, far from being casual, becomes an act of rebellion.
While cinema is marked by a world of white men, Peele claims this role to those who, for years, have been forgotten. And, at the same time, they are confronted by a welcome white family to show us that inequalities still exist today.
We talk about this fascination that white people often feel about everything “different,” a seemingly innocent admiration but hiding a well-rooted historical past linked to racism.
But we don’t stop there. That would go back to Peele’s other film, “Run!” and this time he’s determined to say more. In the end, the capitalist world doesn’t care about your race if you have money in your pocket, if you can spend it. entertainment or material goods.
Criticism of materialism, our time and the absurdity that arises in the face of many of our daily actions is verbalized, inspired and materialized in “we”.
? We offer a caricatured view of reality, capitalism and our hypocrisy in relation to each other’s problems, all in a film capable of attracting the masses, keeping suspense and making us laugh even in the most terrible moments.
Without a doubt, we are looking at one of the great premieres of 2019, a beautiful comedy lesson in the midst of an apocalypse in which we can somehow see a reflection of ourselves.