Jeremiah 11:11 “For this I will send disaster and they will not be able to avoid it. They will call out to me to help them, but I will not listen to them "
Adelaide (Lupita Nyong'o) as every year, she returns to her childhood home in California to spend the summer holidays with her husband Gabe (Winston Duke, the chieftain M'Boku of Black Panther) and their two children, the teenager Zora (Shahadi Wright Joseph) and lively little Jason (Evan Alex). The woman lives with difficulty and paranoia the stay in the house, both for the recent death of her mother, and for a trauma from the past that has never been resolved. One night the Wilsons see the silhouettes of four mysterious individuals in their driveway. Attacked and held hostage in the house by strangers, they soon make the terrifying discovery that the four mysterious figures are doppelgängers of themselves, hitherto relegated to mysterious underground structures, intent on taking their place and their life on the surface. .
Jordan Peele, of the comedy duo Key & Peele, shocked the world with his debut film Run - Get Out, black horror-tinged satire on the cultural appropriation of black America and the hypocrisy of the white and intellectual elite who earned him the Academy Award just a year ago for Best Original Screenplay. With We, Peele demonstrates that the success of the first film was not just a stroke of luck and the full extent of his talent, returning to tell an all-black satire on the America of great contradictions, that of Trumpism and fear, of indolence and mediocrity, violence and racism.
At times Spike Lee's manifesto film, at times a novel by HG Welles (The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds) Noi puts on the plate even more pressing and current issues of American culture through a psychoanalytic-tinged horror, similar in structure and in the performance of a 120-minute installment of The Twilight Zone which, to no one's surprise, Jordan Peele will revive. We have many ideas (perhaps too many): from racism to xenophobia, from paranoia to mass hysteria, from the duality of America to violence between blacks. In short, there is a lot to absorb, but the balance of the film between comedy (because, all in all, you scream more with laughter than fright) and horror, already appreciated for the directorial debut of the American director, is phenomenal. , carefully constructed thanks to an excellent cast among which, in addition to Nyong'o, the “Mona Lisa” of American cinema Elisabeth Moss and a skilful and well-laid-out screenplay.
On the sidelines of this broad consideration of the film and its themes, the talent of the Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o, who with this film and Little Monsters (2019), success with audiences and critics at the latest Sundance, is earning a reputation as a scream queen for the new millennium and this new horror cinema. In a cinema like today, increasingly dedicated to the mixing of genres, Jordan Peele has proven to be one of the most original, fresh and capable authors, as well as the most heartfelt heir of John Carpenter and Wes Craven.
