The Duality of An Individual... trauma or simple unresilved stuff from childhood...
#TLDR All of us probably have trauma from childhood, even simple stuff - but mainly we don't have places or people safe to open up to, and therefore are not dealing with it...
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The Duality of Man as possible explanation of "Us" <--- the film but also meaning us in the usual sense also.
"Early on in Us, we see a little girl lost in a funhouse. The place is supposed to be themed after some sort of Native American culture. When she enters, she finds a mirror image of herself wandering around.
This scars her as a person, and when we catch up with her as an adult, we see that this trauma still shakes her to her core, though she tries to hide it.
This duality of a person, good and evil, is thematic of everything that follows in the movie. If we all have a double of ourselves, we bury deep in the tunnels, then what makes it come out? Can we say it's gone if we bury it? "
Source: https://nofilmschool.com/us-meaning
"If Us truly is about the duality living within mankind, then we need to look at it on two levels: the individual and the societal. "
and I like this quote:
"Most of the community looks rebuilt, refreshed, and refurbished. Santa Cruz has never looked better.
But there's still the same homeless man waving his sign.
You can't pave over the people."
