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The reason Pluto’s face is burned is because he matches Jason’s every move. So when ever Jason was practicing his magic trick with the fake lighter Pluto was in the underground with a real lighter and every time Jason tried his trick and failed so he inspected the lighter. Pluto was burning his face with the real lighter.
That’s probably exactly what it is but still To me it sounds silly how there gonna be able to re do everything they do on the surface. Like so what they just have unlimited lighter fluid or a box full of 100s of lighters. They said somewhere in there they abandoned it in like the 80s so I don’t get how they get all the materials for copying stuff other then surviving by breeding and eating the rabbits.
@@thecoldone6087 they weren't actually doing everything, we see them mimicking their topside tethers. They didn't have a lot of the objects that their tethers had, just mimicked their movements.
I believe that as “Adelaide’s” shirt got more and more covered in blood, more and more red, it represented her slowly being revealed as one of the tethered
Don’t know if someone has already said this, but “Good Vibrations” and “F*ck the Police” I think are meant to represent two different views of California, further emphasising duality
Adelaide's first onscreen conversation with Kitty at the beach is awkward and when Kitty's asks her what's up, Adelaide says simply, "I have trouble talking."
One thing that caught my attention in Us was when Jason ate the dry Froot Loops in their neighbors house like how Rose did in Get Out. I thought it was a cute nod at Get Out without it being in your face just like the references you guys talked about!
I think the reason shadow Jason's face was burnt was because Jason was always trying to light the little spark thing, and shadow Jason was probably using real matches and burned himself
I can definitely see a domestic terrorism angle in the film. Instead of an 'other' that's seen as the villain, as is the case with what we're led to believe with terrorism, it's us. It's the homegrown violence that we're usually not giving attention to, despite being the pressing form of it. It wasn't an 'other', it was, as she states, fellow Americans, and that's especially true today. Don't know if I'm reaching but I thought that was interesting.
The reason the shadow Jason was burnt is because while the above ground Jason was playing with a magic trick that Sparks, shadow Jason was playing with the only thing he could find, which were matches. So he ended up burning his face Everytime normal Jason used the toy
@@Poopie22 I'm pretty sure Pluto was just very suggestible because of how animalistic he was, I dont think Jason is tethered (other than being half human half tethered)
Conor Stephenson but the above ground one was able to control him and knew it was a trap. The above ground Mom said "they know our every move" and the below ground Mom said "the thethered can control the above ground" that's what he did 👀
@@Poopie22 the tethered cant control the aboveground people, the experiment failed and the tethered ended up being controlled by their aboveground counterparts
So the tethered version of Jason is burned bc the regular Jason plays with matches and lighters, and red even says when they both run off not to set the house on fire or something like that.
Omg bro I got done watching the movie and the women who took out tickets literally looked exactly like Michael Jackson and she walked off and walked exactly like the people in us did... scared the literal shit out of me
Why is Lupita's character not snapping on the right beat while the family is listening to "I've got 5 on it?" I thought it was an editing issue in the trailer but now I wonder if it was purposeful...
Garrick Vaughan it was foreshadowing to show she was the tethered. That’s why Pluto started snapping at her when he backed into the fire. At least that’s how I interpreted it.
It could be a hint to the Tethered part of her because she’s snapping on the upbeat, not the downbeat where someone would normally keep a beat when they listen to that song. My sister pointed out when the trailer was released that she wasn’t really snapping on the beat and thought it was a clue that Adelaide might not be 100% “there.”
She was on beat but just not the typical beat. She snapped on every beat of the 8 count instead of the 2's and 4's if that makes sense. Still, it was awkward because who snaps on all the beats?
Holy shit that brothers grimm snow white rose red duality theory was SPOT ON... I haven't seen that mentioned anywhere else yet, this chick is a genius 🙌🏼
Perhaps good vibrations was referencing how the underground people “love the colourful clothes she wears and the way the sunlight plays upon her hair” as they don’t have sunlight and stuff
that sounds a lot better than what I came up with. I was thinking that it had to do with seismic waves, I figured the tethered people living in the tunnels would have to deal with earthquakes and drilling/fracking and shit a little differently than those of us above ground.
@@jeeither I thought because they're tethered, they picked up "vibrations" from their other half like if you tie two things together with wire or string and pluck at it, there will be vibrations.
So amped you guys saw this post! When you mentioned that scene, I knew i had to try my luck and post a comment. Even posted a subtle comment on Chelsea's twitter, (which i will now delete lol). Anyways thanks for the hard work you guys put into your craft. I look forward to watching your vids every week! @Dead Meat
Dead Meat he’s hitting the same mole over and over again too. Maybe he’s fighting his tethered guy or something? I’m not good at this stuff and I don’t remember the specifics of the movie
Wow I gotta rewatch that scene never noticed it was the same mole. Nice catch! Wow I gotta rewatch that scene never noticed it was the same mole. Nice catch! Btw nice avatar pic. I’m a huge highly suspect fan MCID lol
I saw the movie on Thursday night and spent hours doing research to try to understand further and process what I just watched. It was so difficult to find good & thought-provoking content because the movie is so new, but then I saw you uploaded this. These interpretations were terrific and opened my eyes to so much more in the film. Thank you both for this, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I really loved all the ‘mirror’ coincidences such as the 11:11, the real spider crawling under the fake spider, and the frisbee landing directly over the spot on the towel. I didn’t catch most of those horror nods but I did catch the nightmare on elm st. VHS tape in the beginning!
Zach Couch for me it symbolized things ‘lining up’ if that makes sense but you could also look at it as the tethered replacing one of the regular circles (if i remember correctly the frisbee is red). I might be looking too far into the symbolism though.
I'm rewatching this and I just remembered that there is a very twisted version of Snow White and Rose Red where the prince that Snow was in love with started falling for Rose and Snow got so jealous she ended up killing her sister with scissors. Then after Rose had been dead for a while, Snow began to realize how lonely she was without her twin so she killed herself with the same pair of scissors. Edit: Forgot, after Snow dies she and Rose both become birds, Snow a Bluejay and Rose a Redbird, and they are always seen on the same branch of the same tree singing the same song.
Jason’s tethered version is named Pluto God of the underworld in Greek Mythology. Pluto is also the God of death. Pluto is the furthest planet from the sun and receives no light from the sun explaining why he was so interested in fire in the movie. He was a pyromaniac and ended up burning his face playing with fire. Later in the movie when Pluto dies, he is engulfed by flames making me think about the god of death and the god of fire. @DeadMeat
Jackson Davidson the god of the underworld in Greek mythology is Hades however the god of the underworld in Roman mythology is Pluto really good point just wanted to point that out though
I have a theory about Addy and Gabe's relationship: they lack in chemistry from the start and the scene where she reveals to him about the little girl she saw was super weird and his reaction was not in sync at all with her emotional state. Also whenever there's danger Addy grabs her children, multiple times throughout the movie she's trying to save them and putting them before her, which is normal for a mother but she never shows that kind of love towards Gabe. So my theory is that since Addy is originally one of the mole people she's not fully capable of experiencing romantic love or even most social relations in general (that scene at the beach with Kitty where their conversation is super awkward and she even admits she's not good at talking), but she really does love her children to death. This is because having lived her childhood underground she is emotionally stunted and while she feels the primal form of love that is between mother and children, other types of affection are more difficult to grasp for her.
I watched this right after getting back from the theater. I can't believe I missed so many connections. Super happy to get this commentary, and I Can't wait to go see it again.
I love that interpretation of the son's mask. My guess on it originally was that the son inherited some Tethered genetics from his mother, and the mask kinda symbolized that he shares both human and Tethered DNA, as you guys said since he shares the same soul as his shadow.
So I am guessing when James does the Kill Count on "Us", once released on Blu-ray/DVD of course, he will be wearing either all red or a red jumpsuit🤔🙂👍🏼👏🏼👌🏼✌🏼
I feel like the ambulance was always a symbol for escape from the shadows, the brother used it as a way to get out of the dark pantry and the family uses it to flee from their shadow selves
Something I noticed, Elisabeth Moss' tethered silently screaming when she sees Tim's tethered getting killed, and then laughing about it 5 seconds after. Did anyone think up that when one of the parties (either the tethered or the original people) gets killed, that part of the soul gets full autonomy in the remaining person? Regaining that part of yourself (memories, feelings maybe). So when the tethered Elisabeth Moss seemingly has a mood swing, it's because that part of her sees her husband getting killed meanwhile the other half takes over? I can also see it when Red gets killed at the end, and Adelaide screams out but then laughs just like Red in this really weird way.
oo my theory was that the real elizabeth said that she dreamed of killin her husband but wud never actually do it so the shadow elizabeth is explicitly happy to see her husband die
I thought they have the reversed emotions. That couple hated each other, but when they are tethereds, they like each other. After killing their real selves, They look and smile to each other. And when the husband dies, she cries and screams about it.
When he hit his own head on the boat, it wasn’t to get the tethered to copy him. It was to get the engine running again so the tethered would get crushed with the propeller. As for Jason. I don’t know if he was controlling Pluto. I think Pluto was playing a game and didn’t realise he was walking into flames. But that’s all open to interpretation.
You two are such precious people I just wanna hug you both but I'm not gonna EDIT: Also since you guys wanted something interesting i don't know whether this is a coincidence or not but the main family's last name is Wilson and like one of the very first "evil doppelganger" kind of stories ever is William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe
Anyone else notice that Lupita’s character in the movie wouldn’t eat anything processed? Like there’s a scene where the family is sitting around eating fried chicken and she’s eating strawberries with water and later on, on the beach, her friend offered her alcohol but she didn’t want any. I thought that was one of the giveaways to her being a tether since they had no way of making processed or prepared foods so they ate everything naturally like the raw rabbits.
Did anyone see how the people playing rock, paper, scissors would always result in a win for the guy on the surface but the tethered always tied down low
Her parents annoyed me greatly. Her mom was bossy, her dad was irresponsible and it seemed more like they were more interested in buying her off (the Thriller shirt, ballet recital, the candy apple, etc.) than actually being there for her.
Am i seriously the only one who didnt like this movie? I didnt find this movie scary at all, i was laughing more and just found it more suspenseful and mysterious. But this pod cast has really helped a lot!
I didn’t watch the entire thing but i did what a fair amount, so i dont know if you covered this but... i loved the idea of the tethered using scissors. Reason being is how 2 pieces make it up, yet its purpose is to divide things into 2. They used the scissors to kill off their double, and when Lupita is at their friends house she kills one of the tethered with the scissors like the tethered which jason sees, foreshadowing the reveal at the end. Loved this movie! Also love your vids!
1. Chelsea you’re a genius. 2. maybe the reason tethered jason has a burned face is because his magic trick worked underground and went wrong unlike real Jason’s where he couldn’t get it to work at all. 3. Freaking love this channel!!
Ooh another thing: the painting of the mother and daughter flexing. The two female characters were the more physical when it came to killing the tethers.
Another thing pointing to Aselaide's character being switched is the seance with both of them talking to each other about dance, in which "underground" Aselaide makes a comment that "If you had never decided to dance, the others would have never realized I was different." May be a bit obvious, but is cool to look back on, and super easy to miss. Also great job with the analysis!! Always enjoyable, keep it up
It wasn't Peter Sellers, George C Scott, nor Slim Pickens who ranted about fluoride in the water. It was Sterling Hayden (playing General Jack Ripper).
I think Pluto's face is burnt because while Jason's lighter didn't work, Pluto had matches that did light up. So I can imagine Jason putting the lighter close to his face while he flicks it to try to understand why the magic trick isn't working while underground Pluto has a lit match in his hand.
You guys are champs for seeing the film last night and posting a review this morning. Glad to see Us blended Jordan Peele's humor background with his horror ideas!
Wow I wasn't expecting for you guys to review this so fast. But I'm not complaining. I haven't started listening but I know that it'll be great as always!
I couldn’t care less. If a movie is ruined for me by someone telling me a spoiler that movie would have been a waste of time anyways. Any movie that’s good can be spoiled as much as possible and it’s still worth watching.
I sometimes feel like most trailers don't spoil a lot sometimes ,(like infinity war ig) but there are some trailers where they literally tell pretty much the whole story but if I think it's interesting to watch I'm like hey..I wanna watch it if it's good it's good if not then oh well I'ma watch a better one next time🤷🏻♀️
For the most I agree with you for the most part. Though lately I've been going into more movies blind and it can be a different experience. That being said having spoilers for this movie probably would have help it for me for this film as my confusion pulled me out for a bit.
Exactly! I like to know what I'm getting myself into XD. I feel like I'm the only one, because so many people are feral about like trailers revealing too much, no matter how good the movie looks.
GOD I LOVED US ONLLL Edit: Jason’s shadow is burnt because of the magic trick he was doing which involves flint. So I think that when shadow Jason was underground, he burnt himself every time Jason does the trick on the surface. Idk just a little thing I noticed.
The song good vibrations has a lot of meaning to it apparently the writer of the song wrote about it cause his mother would often refer to dogs barking at certain people as bad vibrations so and not barking as good vibrations so it was something that we couldn’t see but feel, a sense of unease. ( I think I remember dogs barking in the movie around the time of the attack) the song was also written with ideas of fragments of other songs and it came together through all these unfinished ideas.( I guess it kind of represents the fragments of the tethers and how they are unfinished projects by the government, as well as the tunnels unused because they became unfinished.)
36:10 I never realized that was why the Tethered wore one glove!! I totally get it now, thank you so much for talking about that! Man, that Thriller shirt is so much more important than I thought it’d be...
woah i love the fairytale symbolism Chelsea picked up on! one cool little thing my boyfriend noticed was that Jason attacking Dahlia with the geode was like rock beating scissors (as in rock paper scissors) lol.
my friend pointed out that addy is the only one eating a bright red strawberry while everyone else is eating chicken during a dinner scene which hints at her being tethered since red is a symbol for the tethered
Jordan Peele gave the cast eleven horror films to watch so they would have "a shared language" when filming: Jaws (1975), Dead Again (1991), The Shining (1980), The Babadook (2014), It Follows (2014), A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), The Birds (1963), Funny Games (1997), Martyrs (2008), Let the Right One In (2008), and The Sixth Sense (1999). The Bible verse that continuously appears in the film (Jeremiah 11:11) reads: "Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them." The overhead shot of the Wilsons driving to the vacation home, along with the synchronized speech and mannerisms of the twins, is a reference to The Shining (1980). Ironically, the name of the Tylers' unhelpful virtual assistant, Ophelia, derives from the Greek "ophéleia," meaning "help." When the family is figuring out where they can be safe from the detached, Lupita Nyong'o's character suggests Mexico. Lupita Nyong'o was born in Mexico City. Dahlia appears to have scars on her cheeks, reflecting Kitty's plastic surgery (mentioned earlier). It likely is also why she cuts her own face later. By the end of the film, each member of the Wilson family has killed their own respective counterparts. Red is the only Tethered that uses language, due to the fact that she is the real Adelaide and had learned to speak before being trapped underground by her Tethered long ago. When Adelaide is lying on the couch, she sees a spider on the table crawling past a larger toy spider. This image foreshadows the 'doppelgänger' theme in the movie. Elisabeth Moss (Kitty) starred in The One I Love (2014), which was also about doppelgangers, albeit shape-shifting ones. Jordan Peele has said that one of the inspirations for the film was The Twilight Zone: Mirror Image (1960). When the Wilsons' "shadows" first appear in the driveway, they are holding hands--foreshadowing the Tethered's bloody recreation of "Hands Across America." The ambulance toy that blocks the closet door foreshadows the end of the film.
I legitimately pulled this up in regards to Chelsea's tweet about the intro... but seeing James dance, I knew I had to watch this episode instead of listen to it on the Podcast App lol
33:19 I'm sure this is a year too late and nobody will see it, but fluoride in the water has been discussed in the dental industry and a large reason for keeping it is that it helps maintain teeth health for people who don't have regular access to dentists. Just thought that was probably relevant (given the theme) that the rich family in this is complaining about fluoride when its historically been something rather beneficial for members of the lower class.
My theory on Pluto’s burned face. The tethered mimic their human counterparts. Jason likes to do magic tricks. If Pluto gets a hold of matches and mimics Jason, he’ll definitely burn himself. Jason kept playing with that zipper thing that just didn’t ignite. But Pluto would have been able to light his match each time Jason’s tried the trick.
Ugh I loved this episode! So first off, I love you're work, and I'm a huge fan. But I have a note on the Good Vibrations scene from Us. First of all, I don't believe there was any meaning for choosing this song other than the fact that it's a fun song and he's rich white guy with a beach house. Furthermore, The Beach Boys themselves consisted of 5 members, brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson (none were twins), their cousin Mike Love, and a neighbourhood friend, Al Jardine. Dennis Wilson died in '83, 3 years before Hands Across America and Carl died in '98. Ao of course, with my vast Beach Boys knowledge and deep love for Brian Wilson, I was on the floor laughing, when the scene unfolded. I just thought it was so funny. Anyway, that's all I have. Thank you for the amazing work you guys put out!
SPOILERS: I think the reason why the Tether boys face was burnt is because the real boy had that magic trick lighter but the Tether boy had the matches so when the real boy tried lighting the magic trick but wouldnt work the Tether boy's matches did work all those times cause him to burn his face....
K so Charles Manson use to play and write songs with Dennis Something from the beach boys. Maybe it was around that time that they all made Good Vibrations? Perhaps the Manson family is reflected on the tethered, as well as breaking into a house and killing a family?
God, that point you made about how trauma changes you is exactly what hit me as I was driving away from the theater. I also think Adelaide's relationship with Jason is such a good representation of growing up with a parent who has undiagnosed/untreated mental illness; how they'll be loving and kind to you and then suddenly snap and act like a completely different person. (I am... unfortunately speaking from personal experience on that.)
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Hey everyone, in our rush to get this out, we messed up and the intro doesn't have sound. But that's it - the episode itself has plenty of sound, so just skip the first 10 seconds if you're uncomfortable with silence!
Dead Meat ok
its alright, everybody makes mistakes 😊❤️ btw, I love your videos
Dead Meat thought you guys were jump scaring us in the intro 😅
Must of been eager
To get this video uploaded
Got ya
l love how abraham dies in the water, umbrae dies in the air, pluto dies in the fire and red dies in the ground
Good catch
Howndoes umbrae die I completely forgot
@@TXejas19 thanks! really enjoyed how much there is to notice
@@newname34695 she's thrown off the car and gets caught in a tree
@@ForeverLucyxx oh yeah thx
The reason Pluto’s face is burned is because he matches Jason’s every move. So when ever Jason was practicing his magic trick with the fake lighter Pluto was in the underground with a real lighter and every time Jason tried his trick and failed so he inspected the lighter. Pluto was burning his face with the real lighter.
Ooooooooow woah
Sounds like a commentary on play vs real consequences.
Or just a cool moment in a horror movie. I'll take either. Neat catch!
That’s probably exactly what it is but still To me it sounds silly how there gonna be able to re do everything they do on the surface. Like so what they just have unlimited lighter fluid or a box full of 100s of lighters. They said somewhere in there they abandoned it in like the 80s so I don’t get how they get all the materials for copying stuff other then surviving by breeding and eating the rabbits.
@@thecoldone6087 they weren't actually doing everything, we see them mimicking their topside tethers. They didn't have a lot of the objects that their tethers had, just mimicked their movements.
I believe that as “Adelaide’s” shirt got more and more covered in blood, more and more red, it represented her slowly being revealed as one of the tethered
C C
I thought I was literally a 1000 I.Q person when I saw that thought I was the only one
C C yeah I really liked how they gave you that hint throughout the movie😁
Cyng Carter True!!!!!!!
How is everyone so clever 😂
999 likes 👌 here is your 1k
Don’t know if someone has already said this, but “Good Vibrations” and “F*ck the Police” I think are meant to represent two different views of California, further emphasising duality
Facts!
fantastic analysis!
Makes sense, I was gonna go with like if you tether ( tie something ) to something else with like a string or wire, both would feel vibrations.
Adelaide's first onscreen conversation with Kitty at the beach is awkward and when Kitty's asks her what's up, Adelaide says simply, "I have trouble talking."
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Because The Tethered Don’t Know How To Talk.
One thing that caught my attention in Us was when Jason ate the dry Froot Loops in their neighbors house like how Rose did in Get Out. I thought it was a cute nod at Get Out without it being in your face just like the references you guys talked about!
Daniella Velarde I caught that too
Also if they share a soul then Would they able to see everything going on but not be able to act like in get out with the whole brain swapping thing
I also saw that
I JUST realized that, thanks
ooh I love dry fruit loops
I think the reason shadow Jason's face was burnt was because Jason was always trying to light the little spark thing, and shadow Jason was probably using real matches and burned himself
I think it's funny how this is a movie about evil doubles, and you and every reviewer said they wanted to see this movie a second time
I get itt holy shit
@@itsharryhagen I know. I watched the same video as you where they explained what the Tethered are. It was a joke. My bad for trying to make a joke.
The tethered James is a racist, rude person in a channel about saving people
I dunno about Chelsea oof
Chelsea is a genius, hands down great interpretations!
I Can Do Them Better.
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Mr. Ashtastic “I can do them better” let’s see it then bruh
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Scholar level film knowledge with bonus Tim and Eric jokes
I can definitely see a domestic terrorism angle in the film. Instead of an 'other' that's seen as the villain, as is the case with what we're led to believe with terrorism, it's us. It's the homegrown violence that we're usually not giving attention to, despite being the pressing form of it. It wasn't an 'other', it was, as she states, fellow Americans, and that's especially true today. Don't know if I'm reaching but I thought that was interesting.
This would get more likes in 2020. Probably more people get it now
@@robotdowney especially in 2021.
It's 2023 and now this comment is extra salient
The reason the shadow Jason was burnt is because while the above ground Jason was playing with a magic trick that Sparks, shadow Jason was playing with the only thing he could find, which were matches. So he ended up burning his face Everytime normal Jason used the toy
The real boy was the burned one , that's why the above ground one could control him
@@Poopie22 I'm pretty sure Pluto was just very suggestible because of how animalistic he was, I dont think Jason is tethered (other than being half human half tethered)
Conor Stephenson but the above ground one was able to control him and knew it was a trap. The above ground Mom said "they know our every move" and the below ground Mom said "the thethered can control the above ground" that's what he did 👀
@@Poopie22 the tethered cant control the aboveground people, the experiment failed and the tethered ended up being controlled by their aboveground counterparts
SharrellF how would the clone be able to control the human? the real boy made the fake one to go into the fire because they shadow what they do
Tethered james making underground podcast right now.
Oh yeah tethered James is "TIGHT"
Lmao I can see tethered James in a closet grunting and yelling at rabbits while blood and shit is everywhere
Chelsea: don’t think I’m a genius
James: I think your a genius baby
Get it James
D'aww that's sweet.
James got it, dawg
He sure got it cause now they are married :)
So the tethered version of Jason is burned bc the regular Jason plays with matches and lighters, and red even says when they both run off not to set the house on fire or something like that.
She says "do not burn our house down"
The plot twist is crazy. They all turn out to be Michael Jackson
Eat My Gritz HEE HEE
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Omg bro I got done watching the movie and the women who took out tickets literally looked exactly like Michael Jackson and she walked off and walked exactly like the people in us did... scared the literal shit out of me
Wow thats the biggest plot twist ever
Cash Croley maybe she an tether version of her original self
Chelsea deserves an award for great research damn all the fairy tale stuff blew my mind
Why is Lupita's character not snapping on the right beat while the family is listening to "I've got 5 on it?" I thought it was an editing issue in the trailer but now I wonder if it was purposeful...
Garrick Vaughan it was foreshadowing to show she was the tethered. That’s why Pluto started snapping at her when he backed into the fire. At least that’s how I interpreted it.
It was a hint she's a Teather
foreshadowing to being tethered. The tethered girl in the flash back whistled back at adelaide out of tune.
It could be a hint to the Tethered part of her because she’s snapping on the upbeat, not the downbeat where someone would normally keep a beat when they listen to that song. My sister pointed out when the trailer was released that she wasn’t really snapping on the beat and thought it was a clue that Adelaide might not be 100% “there.”
She was on beat but just not the typical beat. She snapped on every beat of the 8 count instead of the 2's and 4's if that makes sense. Still, it was awkward because who snaps on all the beats?
Holy shit that brothers grimm snow white rose red duality theory was SPOT ON... I haven't seen that mentioned anywhere else yet, this chick is a genius 🙌🏼
Perhaps good vibrations was referencing how the underground people “love the colourful clothes she wears and the way the sunlight plays upon her hair” as they don’t have sunlight and stuff
that sounds a lot better than what I came up with. I was thinking that it had to do with seismic waves, I figured the tethered people living in the tunnels would have to deal with earthquakes and drilling/fracking and shit a little differently than those of us above ground.
@@jeeither I thought because they're tethered, they picked up "vibrations" from their other half like if you tie two things together with wire or string and pluck at it, there will be vibrations.
You think the fact that the father playing wack-a-mole in the begining is symbolic? Just dawned on me when they mentioned that scene.
Oh shit, yeah, he's trying to keep the moles down as they try to come up to the surface!
So amped you guys saw this post! When you mentioned that scene, I knew i had to try my luck and post a comment. Even posted a subtle comment on Chelsea's twitter, (which i will now delete lol). Anyways thanks for the hard work you guys put into your craft. I look forward to watching your vids every week! @Dead Meat
Dead Meat he’s hitting the same mole over and over again too. Maybe he’s fighting his tethered guy or something? I’m not good at this stuff and I don’t remember the specifics of the movie
Wow I gotta rewatch that scene never noticed it was the same mole. Nice catch!
Wow I gotta rewatch that scene never noticed it was the same mole. Nice catch! Btw nice avatar pic. I’m a huge highly suspect fan MCID lol
Eric Kern Fuck yeah man,they’ve been my favourite band for 2 years now. MCID
The first clip has no sound! Just a heads up! 💗
Edit: they cut the first part out, so this is irrelevant now!
Ok so it's not just me
Miukii o yea I thought my audio wasn’t working 😤😂
I thought I was the only one that couldn’t here it I had to turn my volume all the way up cause I thought my phone wasn’t working
THOUGHT I WAS DEAF
Thx
I saw the movie on Thursday night and spent hours doing research to try to understand further and process what I just watched. It was so difficult to find good & thought-provoking content because the movie is so new, but then I saw you uploaded this. These interpretations were terrific and opened my eyes to so much more in the film. Thank you both for this, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Thank you!
I really loved all the ‘mirror’ coincidences such as the 11:11, the real spider crawling under the fake spider, and the frisbee landing directly over the spot on the towel. I didn’t catch most of those horror nods but I did catch the nightmare on elm st. VHS tape in the beginning!
What was the frisbee thing about?
Zach Couch for me it symbolized things ‘lining up’ if that makes sense but you could also look at it as the tethered replacing one of the regular circles (if i remember correctly the frisbee is red). I might be looking too far into the symbolism though.
I also thought the choice of the scissors symbolized the mirror symmetry
Anthony Dominic yeah! along with literally severing ties to their above ground counter parts!
I'm rewatching this and I just remembered that there is a very twisted version of Snow White and Rose Red where the prince that Snow was in love with started falling for Rose and Snow got so jealous she ended up killing her sister with scissors. Then after Rose had been dead for a while, Snow began to realize how lonely she was without her twin so she killed herself with the same pair of scissors.
Edit: Forgot, after Snow dies she and Rose both become birds, Snow a Bluejay and Rose a Redbird, and they are always seen on the same branch of the same tree singing the same song.
Jason’s tethered version is named Pluto God of the underworld in Greek Mythology. Pluto is also the God of death. Pluto is the furthest planet from the sun and receives no light from the sun explaining why he was so interested in fire in the movie. He was a pyromaniac and ended up burning his face playing with fire. Later in the movie when Pluto dies, he is engulfed by flames making me think about the god of death and the god of fire. @DeadMeat
Wow. Fantastic catch!
Jackson Davidson straight from the looper video word for word
@@jugsforthewin7825 Exactly.
Jackson Davidson the god of the underworld in Greek mythology is Hades however the god of the underworld in Roman mythology is Pluto really good point just wanted to point that out though
Pluto is also Mickey Mouse’s dog. Pluto acts like a dog
That intro would have been great for "A quiet place"
OMG YEAH
Hell yeah!
True
I can’t believe that he ended up saving the princess with his best friend donkey even though he’s an ogre... wait...
GGaming acc made me laugh 😂😂
"Whoopies"
Wrong movie
I have a theory about Addy and Gabe's relationship: they lack in chemistry from the start and the scene where she reveals to him about the little girl she saw was super weird and his reaction was not in sync at all with her emotional state. Also whenever there's danger Addy grabs her children, multiple times throughout the movie she's trying to save them and putting them before her, which is normal for a mother but she never shows that kind of love towards Gabe. So my theory is that since Addy is originally one of the mole people she's not fully capable of experiencing romantic love or even most social relations in general (that scene at the beach with Kitty where their conversation is super awkward and she even admits she's not good at talking), but she really does love her children to death. This is because having lived her childhood underground she is emotionally stunted and while she feels the primal form of love that is between mother and children, other types of affection are more difficult to grasp for her.
I watched this right after getting back from the theater. I can't believe I missed so many connections. Super happy to get this commentary, and I Can't wait to go see it again.
I love that interpretation of the son's mask. My guess on it originally was that the son inherited some Tethered genetics from his mother, and the mask kinda symbolized that he shares both human and Tethered DNA, as you guys said since he shares the same soul as his shadow.
And Jason's mother is a tethered
@@gieldecloet7987 Which is why the comment said "the son inherited some tethered genetics from his mother"
His mother is fake Adelaide
Good Vibrations was done by Underground Records so maybe that’s the connection
Juli-Anna Dobson I remember saying to my dad “those aren’t good vibrations” when everyone got murdered
It’s was crazy when I realized the son name is Jason and he always wears a mask
So I am guessing when James does the Kill Count on "Us", once released on Blu-ray/DVD of course, he will be wearing either all red or a red jumpsuit🤔🙂👍🏼👏🏼👌🏼✌🏼
I feel like the ambulance was always a symbol for escape from the shadows, the brother used it as a way to get out of the dark pantry and the family uses it to flee from their shadow selves
Something I noticed, Elisabeth Moss' tethered silently screaming when she sees Tim's tethered getting killed, and then laughing about it 5 seconds after.
Did anyone think up that when one of the parties (either the tethered or the original people) gets killed, that part of the soul gets full autonomy in the remaining person? Regaining that part of yourself (memories, feelings maybe).
So when the tethered Elisabeth Moss seemingly has a mood swing, it's because that part of her sees her husband getting killed meanwhile the other half takes over?
I can also see it when Red gets killed at the end, and Adelaide screams out but then laughs just like Red in this really weird way.
oo my theory was that the real elizabeth said that she dreamed of killin her husband but wud never actually do it so the shadow elizabeth is explicitly happy to see her husband die
I just saw that more as the tethered person mocking regular emotion.
I thought they have the reversed emotions. That couple hated each other, but when they are tethereds, they like each other. After killing their real selves, They look and smile to each other. And when the husband dies, she cries and screams about it.
Another thing is that
11:11 is a coded molecular structure for “Re-Membering”
Just like how Adelaide is remembering who she really is.
I wonder if she ever forgot...
Heads up, no sound in the opening credit clips, but the sound comes in after 10 seconds.
When he hit his own head on the boat, it wasn’t to get the tethered to copy him. It was to get the engine running again so the tethered would get crushed with the propeller. As for Jason. I don’t know if he was controlling Pluto. I think Pluto was playing a game and didn’t realise he was walking into flames. But that’s all open to interpretation.
I think Pluto willingly walked into the flames because he's not really rational and also because Jason backing up was part of Red's plan to catch him
It is literally almost 1am cause my showing was 10:15pm but I literally couldn't wait to watch this after to see what you guys noticed. No regrets.
One of the VHS tapes in the beginning is 'The Man with Two Brains'.
Who noticed at the end when she started smiling, she started smiling like on of the tethered, but finally smiled like a normal person
You two are such precious people I just wanna hug you both but I'm not gonna
EDIT: Also since you guys wanted something interesting i don't know whether this is a coincidence or not but the main family's last name is Wilson and like one of the very first "evil doppelganger" kind of stories ever is William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe
Anyone else notice that Lupita’s character in the movie wouldn’t eat anything processed? Like there’s a scene where the family is sitting around eating fried chicken and she’s eating strawberries with water and later on, on the beach, her friend offered her alcohol but she didn’t want any. I thought that was one of the giveaways to her being a tether since they had no way of making processed or prepared foods so they ate everything naturally like the raw rabbits.
Did anyone see how the people playing rock, paper, scissors would always result in a win for the guy on the surface but the tethered always tied down low
JuiceExtraction I did thought I was the only one lol
Yep. They always tied because they both always chose scissors
caliBornbEauty I wonder if they always chose scissors bc it also represented them being in the same class, both lower class
Ophelia, play “I Think I’m a Clone Now” by Weird Al Yankovic
NONE OF THIS WOULD'VE HAPPENED IF THE DAD HADN'T PLAYED WACK-A-MOLE!
Oooh but playing wack a mole is "TIGHT"😉
*HONESTLY*
@@B.Moore-Ready screen rant pitch meeting nod?
@@kyler5039 "YEAH YEAH YEAH"😉
Her parents annoyed me greatly. Her mom was bossy, her dad was irresponsible and it seemed more like they were more interested in buying her off (the Thriller shirt, ballet recital, the candy apple, etc.) than actually being there for her.
Was I the only one who thought Jason's mask was a Chewbacca mask the entire time
Shit, so did I! But, yeah, I guess Wolf Man makes more sense for this movie...
It is a Chewbacca mask. He even says “It’s a trap!” when they see Pluto in front of the flaming car.
Was it not??
10:05 "I think you're a genius, baby." Ugh! My heart!
Beach boys and NWA represent the 2 sides of California
Heyyyy. I like this connection.
Watching the movie tonight... will listen to the podcast on the way back home
But I’m leaving a like in advance
It was great have fun!
The trailer is the only thing at my theater
Bounty Hunter Kakuzu same
The movie was great 👍
Am i seriously the only one who didnt like this movie? I didnt find this movie scary at all, i was laughing more and just found it more suspenseful and mysterious. But this pod cast has really helped a lot!
I didn’t watch the entire thing but i did what a fair amount, so i dont know if you covered this but... i loved the idea of the tethered using scissors. Reason being is how 2 pieces make it up, yet its purpose is to divide things into 2. They used the scissors to kill off their double, and when Lupita is at their friends house she kills one of the tethered with the scissors like the tethered which jason sees, foreshadowing the reveal at the end. Loved this movie! Also love your vids!
Also cause they were puppets cutting off their strings so to speak
Marianne agreed
1. Chelsea you’re a genius.
2. maybe the reason tethered jason has a burned face is because his magic trick worked underground and went wrong unlike real Jason’s where he couldn’t get it to work at all.
3. Freaking love this channel!!
(2) yea I think Jason is also a tether like his mother
Ooh another thing: the painting of the mother and daughter flexing. The two female characters were the more physical when it came to killing the tethers.
Another thing pointing to Aselaide's character being switched is the seance with both of them talking to each other about dance, in which "underground" Aselaide makes a comment that "If you had never decided to dance, the others would have never realized I was different." May be a bit obvious, but is cool to look back on, and super easy to miss. Also great job with the analysis!! Always enjoyable, keep it up
"You can do it! You're so strong!" Man, I absolutely LOVE you, James! You're so damn wholesome!!
Legit I went into the movie without seeing any of the trailers and dude that movie was so sinister
You're so lucky, it must've been terrifying
I STOPPED EVERYTHING TO COME WATCH THIS AHHH I saw the movie last night I really liked it 🖤
Same
Lucky
Same
same so good
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It wasn't Peter Sellers, George C Scott, nor Slim Pickens who ranted about fluoride in the water. It was Sterling Hayden (playing General Jack Ripper).
I think Pluto's face is burnt because while Jason's lighter didn't work, Pluto had matches that did light up. So I can imagine Jason putting the lighter close to his face while he flicks it to try to understand why the magic trick isn't working while underground Pluto has a lit match in his hand.
You guys are champs for seeing the film last night and posting a review this morning. Glad to see Us blended Jordan Peele's humor background with his horror ideas!
I just loved that Jason took a rabbit at the end of the movie. Precious bean
Bean?
yes ❤
Wow I wasn't expecting for you guys to review this so fast. But I'm not complaining. I haven't started listening but I know that it'll be great as always!
29:00 Chelsea's eyes when James can't pronunce Yacht
For Good vibrations, there’s a line that says “it’s getting closer now” during a creepy part of the scene, from what I remember.
Am I the only one who doesn’t care about spoilers? I still watch the movie regardless.
I don't but it kinda just takes the whole experience away for me...
I couldn’t care less. If a movie is ruined for me by someone telling me a spoiler that movie would have been a waste of time anyways. Any movie that’s good can be spoiled as much as possible and it’s still worth watching.
I sometimes feel like most trailers don't spoil a lot sometimes ,(like infinity war ig) but there are some trailers where they literally tell pretty much the whole story but if I think it's interesting to watch I'm like hey..I wanna watch it if it's good it's good if not then oh well I'ma watch a better one next time🤷🏻♀️
For the most I agree with you for the most part. Though lately I've been going into more movies blind and it can be a different experience.
That being said having spoilers for this movie probably would have help it for me for this film as my confusion pulled me out for a bit.
Exactly! I like to know what I'm getting myself into XD. I feel like I'm the only one, because so many people are feral about like trailers revealing too much, no matter how good the movie looks.
GOD I LOVED US ONLLL
Edit: Jason’s shadow is burnt because of the magic trick he was doing which involves flint. So I think that when shadow Jason was underground, he burnt himself every time Jason does the trick on the surface. Idk just a little thing I noticed.
As a vietnamese, I think you were talking about the word “THỎ" which does mean rabbit in english
Us deserves an Oscar for the score! The music made the film go from amazing to one of my favourite movies!
LMAO I wanna know what James has to say about Nancy Reagan....
The song good vibrations has a lot of meaning to it apparently the writer of the song wrote about it cause his mother would often refer to dogs barking at certain people as bad vibrations so and not barking as good vibrations so it was something that we couldn’t see but feel, a sense of unease. ( I think I remember dogs barking in the movie around the time of the attack) the song was also written with ideas of fragments of other songs and it came together through all these unfinished ideas.( I guess it kind of represents the fragments of the tethers and how they are unfinished projects by the government, as well as the tunnels unused because they became unfinished.)
0:00 ~ 0:14 I thought my phone was broken😅
Edit: I never got so many likes Thanks everyone😍
Same. I kept turning up the volume and plugging and unplugging my headphones lol
On god i restarted my whole phone😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Same
Same low key no cap
@Mohammed Ali the g bruh i was lowkey salty
Good luck with this kill count
There’s a lot of background bodies
javoow and the people line they probably killed them selves
Not as many as the purge
I Tried to count it and I got 34 or 36 I'm probably wrong >_
_CRANBERRY _SAUCE_ fax
Fun fact everyone in the family got two kills
DiDidn't he mom killed 4 people
@@llama_master6659 No
They kill themselves and the mirror white family. Though interestingly enough the white family was used as a FOIL for the main cast
@@Steve19906 What does foil mean?
@@buckitoito3698 A foil is an opposite
Jordan Peele has to be the King of Easter Eggs.
The Easter bunny?????
The fairytale info/analysis was awesome, I'm so glad she's knowledgeable about it to inform us!!
36:10 I never realized that was why the Tethered wore one glove!! I totally get it now, thank you so much for talking about that! Man, that Thriller shirt is so much more important than I thought it’d be...
woah i love the fairytale symbolism Chelsea picked up on! one cool little thing my boyfriend noticed was that Jason attacking Dahlia with the geode was like rock beating scissors (as in rock paper scissors) lol.
my friend pointed out that addy is the only one eating a bright red strawberry while everyone else is eating chicken during a dinner scene which hints at her being tethered since red is a symbol for the tethered
Jordan Peele gave the cast eleven horror films to watch so they would have "a shared language" when filming: Jaws (1975), Dead Again (1991), The Shining (1980), The Babadook (2014), It Follows (2014), A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), The Birds (1963), Funny Games (1997), Martyrs (2008), Let the Right One In (2008), and The Sixth Sense (1999).
The Bible verse that continuously appears in the film (Jeremiah 11:11) reads: "Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them."
The overhead shot of the Wilsons driving to the vacation home, along with the synchronized speech and mannerisms of the twins, is a reference to The Shining (1980).
Ironically, the name of the Tylers' unhelpful virtual assistant, Ophelia, derives from the Greek "ophéleia," meaning "help."
When the family is figuring out where they can be safe from the detached, Lupita Nyong'o's character suggests Mexico. Lupita Nyong'o was born in Mexico City.
Dahlia appears to have scars on her cheeks, reflecting Kitty's plastic surgery (mentioned earlier). It likely is also why she cuts her own face later.
By the end of the film, each member of the Wilson family has killed their own respective counterparts.
Red is the only Tethered that uses language, due to the fact that she is the real Adelaide and had learned to speak before being trapped underground by her Tethered long ago.
When Adelaide is lying on the couch, she sees a spider on the table crawling past a larger toy spider. This image foreshadows the 'doppelgänger' theme in the movie.
Elisabeth Moss (Kitty) starred in The One I Love (2014), which was also about doppelgangers, albeit shape-shifting ones.
Jordan Peele has said that one of the inspirations for the film was The Twilight Zone: Mirror Image (1960).
When the Wilsons' "shadows" first appear in the driveway, they are holding hands--foreshadowing the Tethered's bloody recreation of "Hands Across America."
The ambulance toy that blocks the closet door foreshadows the end of the film.
I was just watching the kill count for get out.
SAME I WAS WATCHING GET OUT KILL COUNT AND THE NOTIFICATION CAME UP
Which is a coincidence because they are both made by Jordan peele
oh yah yah SO WERE TWINS NOW!!! WOOOOOOO
Toxicboy2231 yeah, i know. Thats why i told the hole comment section. Lol im kinda weird
I know...
I’m just being that guy
I legitimately pulled this up in regards to Chelsea's tweet about the intro... but seeing James dance, I knew I had to watch this episode instead of listen to it on the Podcast App lol
33:19 I'm sure this is a year too late and nobody will see it, but fluoride in the water has been discussed in the dental industry and a large reason for keeping it is that it helps maintain teeth health for people who don't have regular access to dentists. Just thought that was probably relevant (given the theme) that the rich family in this is complaining about fluoride when its historically been something rather beneficial for members of the lower class.
I love how deep and in depth these podcasts get, it’s fun to watch and brings something new to the way we see things.
My theory on Pluto’s burned face. The tethered mimic their human counterparts. Jason likes to do magic tricks. If Pluto gets a hold of matches and mimics Jason, he’ll definitely burn himself. Jason kept playing with that zipper thing that just didn’t ignite. But Pluto would have been able to light his match each time Jason’s tried the trick.
James with the UpUPDownDown sweatshirt that's what's up 🔥🔥
Ricky Perez what kinda sweatshirt is that?
@@zaktapal It's called UpUPDownDown it's a gaming channel on TH-cam a professional wrestler Austin Creed does
Ricky Perez oh alright thx 👍🏻
Awesome take with the fairy tales, I definitely didn't catch that.
Ugh I loved this episode! So first off, I love you're work, and I'm a huge fan. But I have a note on the Good Vibrations scene from Us. First of all, I don't believe there was any meaning for choosing this song other than the fact that it's a fun song and he's rich white guy with a beach house. Furthermore, The Beach Boys themselves consisted of 5 members, brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson (none were twins), their cousin Mike Love, and a neighbourhood friend, Al Jardine. Dennis Wilson died in '83, 3 years before Hands Across America and Carl died in '98. Ao of course, with my vast Beach Boys knowledge and deep love for Brian Wilson, I was on the floor laughing, when the scene unfolded. I just thought it was so funny. Anyway, that's all I have. Thank you for the amazing work you guys put out!
I thought I understood the metaphors of this movie but this made me understand a whole lot more
53:05 Fun fact, that can also be called a patchwork sleeve!
SPOILERS: I think the reason why the Tether boys face was burnt is because the real boy had that magic trick lighter but the Tether boy had the matches so when the real boy tried lighting the magic trick but wouldnt work the Tether boy's matches did work all those times cause him to burn his face....
That's why he freaked out in the closet when the magic trick wouldn't work.
TRUEE
The reason Jason tether is burned is because his magic trick involves fire!
Also doppleganger Jason mimics real Jason
K so Charles Manson use to play and write songs with Dennis Something from the beach boys. Maybe it was around that time that they all made Good Vibrations? Perhaps the Manson family is reflected on the tethered, as well as breaking into a house and killing a family?
I know that this is probably a coincidence but Adelaide is also the location of The Somerton Man. The unsolved case of man found dead on a beach.
This is too good to be a coincidence
Jason's Doppelganger is named Pluto, which could be a reference to The Hills Have Eyes, one of the cannibal sons in that is named Pluto.
I was so happy when I saw the notification for this! :3
Us was kind of weird, It’s realistic, and it’s amazing
I dont see how it was a good HORROR movie. It should have been a suspense, mystery and thriller.
Robot band because
Like most “horror” movies they disappear or vanish in thin air
Shayne Letendre it’s a horror movie depending on what’s scary to certain people
Blacklivesmatter If thats a horror to some. God bless there souls if they ever watch the conjuring, the exorcist or anything close to that!
The lyrics to The Beach Boys alludes to the dynamic between the original people and their dobys.
God, that point you made about how trauma changes you is exactly what hit me as I was driving away from the theater. I also think Adelaide's relationship with Jason is such a good representation of growing up with a parent who has undiagnosed/untreated mental illness; how they'll be loving and kind to you and then suddenly snap and act like a completely different person. (I am... unfortunately speaking from personal experience on that.)
The opening credits scene with the bunnies, there were double of each bunny even though they weren’t next to each other.