It was 2018 when Jordan Peele, until then known for his multiple roles in comic films and series, on stage at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles withdrew the Oscar for best original screenplay thanks to the masterpiece Get Out. 

A little over a year has passed since then, and Peele seems to be reluctant to go back to comedy. After Get Out, in fact, he immediately went back to work to introduce us to another film that already provides a masterpiece. 

While in Italy it will be released on April 4, in America Us is already beating all records. 

Made with a budget of 20 million, during the first weekend it grossed more than 70 million, becoming the original film with the highest revenue achieved during the first weekend, ousting Avatar and overtaking Captain Marvel which instead had a budget of 150 million. 

Nothing special, it happens that a film grosses stratospheric figures, it happens to get straight to the hearts of people, it happens to enter the story. The question to ask is Why? 

During a holiday, a black family finds itself having to fight with its doppelgängers. The summary of the plot contains everything, all the themes that Peele has brilliantly addressed. 

In Trump’s America, but the same of Obama and Black Panther, it’s finally a black family that is the protagonist of a horror movie of rare beauty these days. 

Although the racial theme is well present is another theme that strikes us, but hits us in the face doing us harm. If in this author’s horror film the protagonists find themselves fighting against themselves, it’s because for the director the real problem today is not foreigners, it’s not others, but us. We are our worst enemies, we are the monsters that do not exist but we fight.  

Jordan Peele has entered the Olympus of great directors by right, his films attract and disturb us, they wrap us up to the point of crushing us and we desperately need them.