‘Us’: A Metaphorical Puzzle in a Good Way?

Jordan Peele seduces with the bloody mayhem.

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By Jon Ochiai

In Writer and Director Jordan Peele’s “Us”, it all begins in 1986: Little African American girl Adelaide, played by Madison Curry, encounters her doppelganger in the carnival tent on the Santa Cruz beach; her eyes widen in terror.