Of course you saw it coming, it’s probably one of several potential twists you were keeping a lookout for, and you’ve seen / read it before, and ultimately it doesn’t matter how “obvious” it may have been to you, because the twist serves the story, not the other way around. In fact, it’s a defense against any criticism levied against the film solely based on someone having predicted the twist. It bears clarification: the fact that this twist is not “original” is not a criticism. While working with twins instead of clones, this twist was similarly revealed in the Simpson’s Halloween segment “The Thing and I.” Again, those are just off the top of my head, and if I had it in me to do an ounce of research I’d probably find a hundred more examples from every medium. The “real person” we’ve been following was actually the “clone” all along. Dick’s 1953 short story of the same name) both featured the same twist that wraps up Us. Just off the top of my head (while trying not to spoil more recent / potentially popular movies that have done this), the 2000 Schwarzenegger movie The 6th Day and the 2002 film Impostor (adapted from Philip K. That makes it that much harder to take anyone by surprise with a plot twist doubly so for genre stories, where such twists are often expected triply so for genre stories featuring clones. First off, given the supersaturation of available fiction in the market–a state that has long existed, but is more pronounced today than it’s ever been–I’m going to guess that any story-lover over the age of twenty has been exposed to every type of twist ever has been and can be. Being that I “guessed” it as well, I believe them, but it’s not an impressive bit of sleuthing or an indictment of the film’s storytelling. Many people have indicated that they guessed the ending of Us well in advance. Fortunately, all the lines on my multi-track mind occasionally get switched over to a single track with no bottlenecking, so here I am, ready to devote several hundred words or more to the movie’s twist ending, as it relates to twist endings in general. I have a lot of thoughts about Jordan Peele’s Us, about 95% of which are positive (with the remaining 5% being “less positive,” though not outright negative), which should make it difficult to pin down the one thing related to it that I most urgently want to blog about.
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