"“Us” highlights the unwitting complicity of even apparently well-meaning and conscientious people in an unjust order that masquerades as natural and immutable but is, in fact, the product of malevolent designs that leave some languishing in the perma-shadows. (Designed by whom? The movie doesn’t name names, but it winks and nods and nudges in a general direction that runs from the sea to the lake.) It dramatizes this world, but with a twist—one that (avoiding spoilers) risks overturning conventional values and sympathies with ecstatic fervor. Suffice it to say that “Us” reserves empathy for its unwitting villains while gleefully deriding their comfortably normal state of obliviousness—and the ordinary absurdities of the world at large."

"Lupita Nyong'o – Adelaide Wilson (née Thomas) / Red"

"Winston Duke – Gabriel "Gabe" Wilson / Abraham"

"Watch Yourself."

"Evan Alex – Jason Wilson / Pluto"

"Once upon a time, there was a girl and the girl had a shadow. The two were connected, tethered together. When the girl ate, her food was given to her warm and tasty. But when the shadow was hungry, she had to eat rabbit raw and bloody. On Christmas, the girl received wonderful toys; soft and cushy. But the shadow's toys were so sharp and cold they sliced through her hands and fingers when she tried to play with them. The girl met a handsome prince and fell in love. But the shadow at that same time had Abraham. It didn't matter if she loved him or not. He was tethered to the girl's prince after all. Then the girl had her first child, a beautiful baby girl. But the shadow, she gave birth to a little monster! Umbrae was born laughing. The girl had a second child, a boy this time. They had to cut her open and take him from her belly. The shadow had to do it all herself. She named him Pluto, he was born to love fire. So you see, the shadow hated the girl so much for so long...until one day the shadow realized she was being tested by God."

"How it must have been to grow up with a sky. To feel the sun, the wind, the trees. But your people took it for granted. We're human too, you know. Lives. Gave them hands, teeth, and blood. Exactly like you. And yet, it was humans that built this place. I believe they figured out how to make a copy of the body but not the soul. The soul remains one shared by two. They created the Tethered so they could use them to control the ones above. Like puppets. But they failed and they abandoned the Tethered. For generations, the Tethered continued without interactions. They all went mad down here. And then there was us... You remember? We were born special. Fate brought us together that night. I never stopped thinking about you. How things could have been. How you could’ve taken me with you. Years after we met, a miracle of life happened. That's when I saw God. And He showed me my path. You felt it too. The end of our dance. The Tethered saw that I was different. That I would deliver them from this misery. I had found my faith. And I began to prepare. It took years to plan. Everything had to be perfect. I didn't just need to kill you. I needed to make a statement that the whole world would see. It's our time now. Our time up there. And to think, if it weren't for you, I never would've danced at all."

"We Are Our Own Worst Enemy."

"Alan Frazier – Ferdie / Jeremiah"

"Shahadi Wright Joseph – Zora Wilson / Umbrae"

"[to a support group] My mom died a week ago. So I'm just here for trying it. I have a lot of resistance to things like this, but I came to these a couple years ago. Well, I was forced to come and I guess it, um... I guess it helped. So, um... My mom was old and she wasn't all together there at the end. And we were pretty much estranged before that, so it really wasn't a huge blow. But I did love her. And she didn't have an easy life. She had DID, which became extreme at the end. And dementia. And my father died when I was a baby from starvation, um, because he had psychotic depression and he starved himself, which I'm sure was just as pleasant as it sounds. And then there's my brother. My older brother had schizophrenia and when he was 16 he hanged himself in my mother's bedroom and of course the suicide note blamed her accusing her of putting people inside him. So. [sighs] That was my mom's life. And then she lived in our house at the end before hospice. We weren't even talking before that. I mean, we were and then we weren't. And then we were. She's completely manipulative. Until my husband finally enforced a no-contact rule, which lasted until I got pregnant with my daughter. I didn't let her anywhere near me when I had my first, my son, which is why I gave her my daughter, who she immediately stabbed her hooks into. And I just... I felt guilty again. I felt guilty again. When she got sick, not that she was really even my mom at the end, and not that she would ever feel guilty about anything. And I just don't want to put any more stress on my family. I'm not even really sure if they could... Could give me that support. And I just... I just feel like... I just sometimes feel like it's all ruined. [sobbing] And then I realize that I am to blame. Or not that I'm to blame, but I am blamed!"

"You know, Annie, you can always build a shrine to all the terrible things in the world, but it doesn't mean that you have to destroy anything that is good."

"Evil runs in the family."

"[at her mother's funeral] It's heartening to see so many strange, new faces here today. I know my mom would be very touched, and probably a little suspicious to see this turnout. So. My mother was a very secretive and private woman. She had private rituals, private friends, private anxieties. It honestly feels like a betrayal just to be standing here talking about her. She was a very difficult woman to read. If you ever thought you knew what was going on with her, and God forbid you tried to confront that. But when her life was unpolluted, she could be the sweetest, warmest, most loving person in the world. She was also incredibly stubborn, which maybe, explains me."

"Every family tree hides a secret."

"Toni Collette – Annie Graham"

"Gabriel Byrne – Steve Graham"

"Alex Wolff – Peter Graham"

"Mallory Bechtel – Bridget"

"Ann Dowd – Joan"

"Milly Shapiro – Charlie Graham"

"Sylvie Testud as Miss Griffith"

"Renée Soutendijk as Miss Huller"

"Angela Winkler as Miss Tanner"

"Mia Goth as Sara"

"Alek Wek as Miss Millius"

"Chloë Grace Moretz as Patricia Hingle"

"The beauty hides the blood."

"Give your soul to the dance."

"Darkness binds the gifted."

"Dakota Johnson as Susie Bannion"

"Let mother take care of you."

"Jessica Harper as Anke Meier"

"If you accept me, you must put down the woman who bore you. Reject her. Expel her."

"This isn't vanity. This is art!"

"Tilda Swinton as Madame Blanc / Dr. Josef Klemperer"

"I am innocent!"

"We have been on two sides of this for too long now."

"There is something wrong here. Can you not feel it? We have to stop this."

"Ingrid Caven as Miss Vendegast"

"It’s a series of energetic shapes written in the air like words forming sentences. Like poems. Like prayers."

"Markos claims to be one of the Three."

"There will be nothing of you left inside. Only space for me... It is happening! It is happening!"

"I’ll talk for now, then: Welcome to our little family. Join in as you feel ready, but there’s no rush."

"[to Klemperer] It is a dance academy. I appreciate your care for Patricia. But I hope that you won't be back."

"Are there guilty men in Berlin? Everywhere! But I am not one of them."