Saturday, April 13, 2019
Go see the movie Us
As we read the chapter of Beloved when Denver, Sethe, and Paul D come back from the carnival and Denver sees behind her a shadow of them holding hands, only for a bunch of creepy stuff to start happening to them, I thought it was only right to correlate it to the new thriller movie, Us. I won't spoil anything for those who have not seen it (to which I HIGHLY recommend you do) but a huge symbol that is a leading plot detail of the movie is the campaign called Hands Across America. It was a national event in 1986 in which over 6 million people made a huge chain holding hands to bring awareness about world hunger and homelessness, however, Jordan Peele effectively conveyed this message in a more twisted way in his movie. So2 points of this blog: 1. when you hold hands creepy stuff happens 2. go see Us!!!
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Having seen Us, I completely agree with this. Hand holding and carnivals play a big role in Us and in Beloved. The movie Us is centered around events at a carnival, and everything spirals from that scene. I would argue that Beloved really kicks off with the carnival too. Also (no spoilers) but another theme of Us is repressed emotions due to traumatic experiences, and I think that goes along with Beloved too. Paul D repressed so many emotions in his tobacco tin and certain characters in Us repressed things from their past as well.
(Sophia)
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