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is rooted in the American culture of his youth.
Among the film’s symbols of the Reagan Era’s aspirational spirit and its compromised practices: Hands Across America. That was a public participation component of the USA for Africa famine relief campaign that called for million of Americans to, literally, hold hands across the continuous United States. On a Sunday in May 1986, an estimated 6 million people formed a human chain that spanned the geographic expanse between Long Beach, California, and New York City.
“It came up early in the script writing process,” Peele said. “There was something about the image of Americans standing in a line, holding hands, with this sort of ’80s, Reagan-esque optimism that if we stand here we can cure hunger. Because that’s how you do it. The insidiousness of the naïveté or the naiveness of the insidiousness just felt ripe for horror. It was creepy and the Reagan Era does kind of give that to you.
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