Jordan Peele's 'Us' - Everything Explained and Deeper Meaning

Jordan Peele's 'Us' - Everything Explained and Deeper Meaning

Chapter Times:

00:13 Intro
01:22 Plot Synopsis and Ending Explained
03:18 Reading the Twist and Trauma Theory
04:00 Foreshadowing the Twist
07:41 Sci-Fi Tropes, Postcolonialism and Post-Colonial Guilt
08:56 White Savior Archetype
11:04 'Us' as 'Black Cinema'
13:07 Is Jason a tethered?
15:37 Kitty/Dahlia - Why doesn't she kill Adelaide?
16:29 Jeremiah 11:11 What's up with that?
18:26 Mirroring and the visual motif of the Scissors explained.
19:06 Deeper Meaning - What, or who do the tethered represent?
19:35 Probably the right answer
20:14 Bad Answer
20:41 Good Answer
22:20 Further Racial Commentary
23:08 Problematising Black Masculinity
24:28 Reoccurring Motif's in Jordan Peele's work.
25:28 Outro


Resources:

Ash, Erin -- ‘Emotional Responses to Savior Films: Concealing Privilege or Appealing to Our Better Selves?’

https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view...

Caruth, Cathy - Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unclaimed-Ex...

Froude, J.A. -- The English In The West Indies [Remember this is explicitly an example of Colonial Racism and needs to be understood as such.]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/English-Indi...

Lazarus, Neil (ed) -- The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cambridge-Co...

Le Guin, Ursula – The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

https://www.amazon.com/Ones-Who-Walk-...

Newman, Stephanie -- Too Afraid To Protest
https://www.writingonglass.com/conten...

Rankine, Claudia – Citizen

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Citizen-Amer...

Rothstein, Richard – The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Color-Law-Fo...

Sharf, Zack - Lupita Nyong’o Used Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Inspiration for ‘Us’ Doppelgänger Voice

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/03/lup...

Tarrant-Reid, Linda – Discovering Black America: From the Age of Exploration to the Twenty-First Century

https://www.amazon.com/Discovering-Bl...

Touré – Who’s Afraid Of Post-Blackness? : What it Means to be Black Now.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Whos-Afraid-...

Victims of Crime.org – Black Children Exposed to Violence and Victimization

http://victimsofcrime.org/our-program...

Vera, Hernan & Gordon, Andrew – Screen Saviors: Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Screen-Savio...

Wells, H.G. – The Time Machine

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Machine...

YouGov -- Statistics on Black American’s Fear of Police Violence

https://today.yougov.com/topics/polit...


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