In an interview, Peele said that as he was writing “Us” he stumbled across a commercial for the event and “got this really eerie feeling.” A Hands Across America commercial of the director’s own making plays at the beginning of the film. Peele “draws a line between the Reagan and Trump presidencies, suggesting that we were, and remain, one nation profoundly divisible,” Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The Times.įor Katy Shrout, 9 at the time and now a 42-year-old eighth-grade English teacher in Atlanta, Hands Across America was a joyful moment “of epic significance.” With a mixtape booming in her boombox, Shrout joined hands with her parents, sister and her sister’s Cabbage Patch Kid, Iva, along a roadway in St. That formation is a motif in the film’s advertising and a recurring, nefarious force in the story. Her life is violently upended when a wicked version of her family shows up to hatch plans that, according to Peele, imagine “the dark side of Hands Across America.” The family first appears standing hand-in-hand like paper dolls, as did Hands Across America’s participants. Michael's Episcopal Church, Holliston.In the movie, Lupita Nyong’o plays a mother haunted by a traumatic encounter she had as a girl in 1986. Child care will be provided.Ĭhristine Whittaker is the priest at St. at the First Congregational Church for the service and following reception. I hope that many people will join us on Friday March 3 at 10 a.m.
In a town where churchgoers seldom have a chance to meet beyond the walls of their own churches, this is an important ecumenical opportunity. This year's World Day of Prayer service offers a wonderful occasion for Holliston Christians from all backgrounds to join together in prayer and learn more about our sisters and brothers in another land. Since then, she has stayed closely in touch with African issues and, with her husband, recently made a film about AIDS orphans in Uganda that is also being used in South Africa to raise awareness about the disease. She returned to South Africa in 1996, spending a year in Johannesburg, where she was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Witwatersrand. With her expertise in education (she has a doctorate from Harvard's Graduate School of Education), she worked for a black teacher's organization. Kate lived in Cape Town in 1990-91, when South Africa was just emerging from the apartheid era. Kate Cress, an Episcopalian who now lives in Medfield, will be at World Day of Prayer to tell us about the South Africa she knows. This year, we are fortunate to have a speaker who has experienced South Africa from the inside. The disease has taken a heavy toll and, together with the prevalence of tuberculosis and malaria, all exacerbated by the extreme poverty in some areas, has contributed to the nation's astonishingly young average age of 24.5 years.ĭespite the vivid language of the service written by South African women, another country's issues can seem remote without personal words.
At the same time, the service draws attention to the devastating impact of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, where women are particularly at risk with more than 59 percent of those infected with HIV/AIDS being women.
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