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The Curse of La Llorona — My take on the movie with spoilers!

  PLOT SUMMARY: Anna finds that her children have become targets of the legend of the La Llorona.    When someone hurts you, breaks your heart and your trust, sometimes, unknowingly, you utter a curse upon them. You want them to feel the same anguish as you did, to have their hearts broken the way yours did. At the time you are so overwhelmed with feelings of revenge, you don't consider anyone in your path. Even people you care about.  La Llorona is a popular Mexican urban legend that was featured in various shows, movies and plays over the years.  It is about a beautiful woman who lives in a village. One day, a handsome man rides through her village, sets his eyes on her and falls in love. She reciprocates his feelings and they marry and have two sons. Everything is going fine, until one day, she finds her husband in the arms of another woman. Consumed with anguish and jealousy, she drowns her two sons, thinking it was the ultimate revenge to take away those his husband cherishe

Us— My take on the movie with spoilers!

PLOT SUMMARY: Adelaide is certain her past is coming after her when she and her family are threatened by intruders. A couple of years ago, a huge scientific breakthrough had made headlines: cloning. Sometime later, it was deemed illegal to clone humans, but that didn't deter sci-fi fans to make several movies on the topic. Over the years, only a few movies did justice to the topic. The Island is one such example. After that, there was a dearth of good movies on cloning, which was perhaps a good thing. I've never been a huge fan of sci-fi movies anyway. Ten minutes into the movie Us, and I grew sceptical. The minute they showed rabbits in cages, I understood it was a movie about clones.