In my opinion, I don’t think Jason and Lupita’s character at the end were smiling at each other. The look he gave her was of distrust but she knows that he knows she’s actually the tethered
Japple or Red told him while she was waiting for Adelaide to come find them. Or he could just tell something was off. I kinda thought he started thinking she was different when he saw her use the scissors to kill the last twin.
I’m surprised no one picked up on or talked about the whistling in the movie and how significant it is. The real Adelaide whistled when she became frightened. It was a self soothing method. She began whistling in the house of mirrors when she became scared and her doppelgänger copied her. She whistled when she came in contact with her doppelgänger after all those years in the scenes where they invaded the family’s home. The real Adelaide or “Red” tried to whistle at the end when she was dying. The whistling gave it away that the switch took place the whole time. I knew right away after that.
The itsy bitsy spider. She sees the spider on the mirrored coffee table. Then later that day, Adelaide crushed Red's head in the same mirrored coffee table the spider was on.
True but my perception of the whistling in the house could have been used as intimidation by the real Adelaide or her doppelganger, as her doppelganger copied it when they were children as a way to scare her I thought. I don't think the whistling in the house gave it away at all.
To answer some of your questions: I think the point of the Hands Across America bit is the fact that the tethered are trying to prove they are just as human as those above. Hands Across America was planned to literally span across mountain ranges and rivers like the tethered did. In reality. Hands Across America failed. But the tethered were so committed to their cause that they did what those above failed to accomplish, but because they were down below, they couldn’t have possibly known that Hands Across America failed. So to them, they’re just doing what they assume those above did. I think this is most shown by Red’s line when they ask “Who are you?” And she responds “We’re Americans.” This film is truly about America and I think when you stop trying to think about everything on a global scale and just focus on America, some of the movie starts to make some more sense, to me at least. Especially since not EVERYONE has a tethered since it is a government experiment after all, it would only be something going on specifically in America.
romeostruedude of course! I wasn’t saying that the tethered are better than the surface people. I just meant that by performing Hands Across America, it was the tethered’s way of proving they’re better than Americans. But just because the tethered believe they’re better, doesn’t make it true. So you’re absolutely right!
Danny’s Disaster what makes the Hands Across America moment great, is how it’s tied to the Lupita reveal at the end. So yes, symbolically it has all these deep meanings. It’s also just a plan from a young girl who saw it as a possible defining moment in her childhood. That’s when her development stopped, and she latched onto the memories of the topside world that she had.
Danny’s Disaster that’s is a great break down, this movie is also is about the conscious (the Tethered) vs subconscious of the mind, and the Tethered also a representation of the family personal insecurities. It’s like people do a lot of great things and at the same time we spend too much time and energy on things that doesn’t make sense.
It is even more simple than that. On the TV the hands cross America promo was the last thing the real Adeline saw before she went out and was kidnapped and replaced, so planning her revenge, that resonated with her to recreate when she was free.
Cory Drummond lmao as soon as he started climbing in the bed I was like he too big for this shit! 😂😂😂 That was probably a queen size bed and he made it look like a twin size
so disturbing to think the reason the tethered version of the young boy had a scarred face was because of the amount of successful times the thumb trick worked in the underground and burned his face against his own will.
Vangundy they control them, but not the things they interact with. It’s like the child birth. One had a c section, operated by professional doctors. The other did it alone. Cutting into herself. One used a lighter that didn’t always spark. The other used a matchstick that could always burn.
The Hands Across America was because the "Tethered" had fulfilled their purpose, and there was no point in moving around anymore, because the "Tethered" are mimicking their counterparts. They were uniting together as one. I think Jordan Peele was trying to symbolize that the "Us" is their own enemy, because all we do is fight with each other rather than working together as a country. Just my interpretation.
I guess I’m the only one who didn’t guess it, I didn’t guess it as all💀I thought the opening scene was to show why the main character was so paranoid, and I thought it was because she had trauma from her past experience with the tethered. I honestly never thought they were switched until they showed it.
I figured it out because I'm a huge Twilight Zone fan, and I knew how the episode that this movie was based on ended. The trailer suggested to me that there might be a similar twist ending. Had I not watched the Twilight Zone episode I probably wouldn't have known either.
the reason their jumpsuits were red and had one glove was because ‘thriller’ was her most recent memory with that shirt and the iconic red suit and one glove
The reason why Jason could control his tether is because it's a representation of how children are more impressionable then adults and I'm more inclined to mimic because they don't have a set identity yet
I think it’s the sort of film that doesn’t make complete logical sense as it is one giant allegory for class, privilege and our perception of ‘otherness’. You essentially have two of the same person but one thrives above because of the privileges she’s afforded and one suffers because she is not afforded the same opportunities. Really telling that in the end the “bad” cloned one thrives above because she’s given the privilege of education and money and societal structure and becomes a good, loving person (Though she forcibly takes this for herself) and the “good” human one is forced to suffer as the lowest of the low class wise through no doing of her own (she was forced) and becomes vengeful and murderous. Kind of like, no one is born “good” or “bad” but how the surroundings we grow up in make us who we are.
I think she was crazy and none of this happend. It was all in her head and she is in a straight jacket in some mental hospital. Yea, that makes more sense.
@@EviEhvee She was referring to the news anchor not being fully aware of the situation because they had no clue the attackers were clones. Turns out that her statement was quite ironic since she didn't realize she was a clone.
I do have an answer about Hands Across America and other stuff. The first thing you see in the film is a commercial of a movement called Hands Across America back in the 80s. This impacted the real child Adelaide before she was switched. She then used this movement as a basis for her revenge plan on her copy that took her place that she worked on for so long but made it super simple bc the tethered are basically brain dead. All the tethered then followed her as explained by Red because they knew she was different. She could speak unlike them and had intellect because she was a real person even though they didn't know. As for the clothing and scissors, Red (Real Adelaide) explained that her plan needed to be perfect so she can get revenge and everyone from below and surface to the top. Everyone wearing all red, a glove, and a small but affective tool for anything in there way was just a way to get everyone to be on sync bc it was a basic plan.
Another reason she chose Hands Across America fro her plan is when her doppelgänger took her thriller shirt and went back up to the surface she was left only with her Hands Across America T-shirt on and I'm guessing it left a lasting impression on her.
But where did they get all those items? Amazon? Lol jk seriously tho did Red resurface n go but them all matching rompers and gloves and scissors? Did they have a store they could shop at down there? I can help but wonder I loved the movie btw but definitely left with a bunch of questions I’m gonna go watch it again.
1. I caught the twist when you first see them together. The difference between her and her Tethered and the way the rest of them act is too different. She's the only one who can verbalize, she's the only one who seems to have a grudge against her other half. 2. This did play out like a large extended Twilight Zone movie. And thus, I don't think we as an audience NEED all the answers. The Hands Across America, the everyone having their own "Tethered"- I don't think the movie NEEDS to answer these questions. If a Twilight Zone episode shows all it's cards, it loses it's mystery and eeriness. 3. Lupita deserves the Oscar. Honestly I genuinely forgot that they were played by the same person and then remembered and was in complete awe at how transformative it was. Lord, the physical tics, the voice shift, the face acting. Just jarringly good.
I felt disappointed and unsatisfied about the whole "they clone people underground to control you" angle -- a more mysterious cause would've suited the movie much better. Some shadowy people are able to exactly clone everyone, even cross generationally (?), and mimic everything the others are doing to control them -- but the clones are forced to mimic the originals in actuality? If it's more effective as an allegory, don't verbalize a disappointing cause in the movie, let it stand on its own on imagery and symbols!
I felt that it was about socioeconomic inequality. Very often throughout history, the rise of the lower class comes from someone in a higher class leading the revolt.
@@Eserr7856 A lot of them in Latin America and all over the world in general, but the main one I can think of right now is the Mexican Revolution lol. It's mostly high-class intellectuals who are the ones who question society and then pave the way for the oppressed groups.
I thought it was a commentary on American capitalism and our culture of success. True Adelaide said “you could’ve took me with you”. I took this as saying our view of success is usually tied with the failure of someone else. The me > them mentality.
@@Thewhitequeen0 The Tethered one became civilized, learned to speak and generally her life improved. But she never once went back to her roots to try and help her brothers and sisters come up too, even though she knew how fucked up their lives are.
@@kadarabdullahi but I mean literally. The real Adelaide is the one who said that line, even though she was the one who was knocked out and chained down there by the other. It makes no sense.
@@Thewhitequeen0 exactly. That's where the concept fell apart for me too. When "Red" is giving the backstory, she makes it clear that she hates Adelaide for getting to live a normal life and that she could have come back for her....why would the normal, untethered human have said that? Why would she expect this obviously demented, evil girl to come back for her? That one line made the twist stop working for me. Still enjoyed the movie tho.
I liked that they hinted at the twist in the fight scene. Through out the film they show you that the tethered people have a higher tolerance for pain. And, when they were fighting other tethers, the film showed you had to use excessive force to kill them. Her swinging the fire poker into Tim tethered characters head which would take any human down, but he laughs it off and keeps going. The daughter back being broken and she keeps laughing. Her getting sliced up through out the fight and stab directly in the abdomen, but she keeps going. Now, before the twist you think it's just a mother's determination to get her child back. But, it only takes one stab to the surface lupita and she's down right away. I might not be in love with this ending. But, Peele did a great job leaving clues just with the visual storytelling.
The only reason why I was able to figure out the this was because of the trailer. In the first trailer, they show the tethered version of Lupita's young character choking the real version of her. When Jordan cut the choking scene in the opening scene, I knew something was up!0
The tethered were doing a protest, they Learned from young Lupita that hands across America was about bringing awareness to the oppressed and they really wanted to do the same.
Also Grace, I think Jason was able to "control" his doppelganger because they were connected. They were the only two that didn't really have an antagonistic relationship, there was something deeper between them. And I think now I get it, because Jason was took after his mother who was the original tethered.
Actually I think it might be a clever misdirect. The initial encounter is described as a trap with pluto setting the trail of oil to the car forcing everyone to get out. Jason then as you see puts arms up and walks backward. So pluto mimics this and walks backwards into the fire revealing that Jason can control his tethered. However I believe this entire scene is the real trap and the oil lined up to the car is a smoke screen for the real trap. We as the viewer like the family believe that Jason can "control" his Tethered. Yet as Jason walks further backwards he is actually walking closer to Red who is hiding and waiting. This is the real trap, Red has executed a plan that involves Pluto sacrificing himself in order to give the family/ Jason the illusion of control when in actuality the tethered/Red are in control. Its a nice paradigm shift showing the tethered are now in control not their counterparts
For hands across America: I took it as the original charity was for unprivileged people, and the shadow versions felt underprivileged. Only connection I could find
Shes snapping off beat! Good catch! Also she eats strawberries because she knows the tethered eat raw rabbit and he barely eats his food. He keeps getting up from the table.
@@bambeeyejoy She wasn't snapping offbeat, she was just snapping on the upbeat instead of the usual downbeat - but still very revealing, as I thought that too when watching
Halal Quinn Maybe because he was young. I think the government programmed them to do what the person they were tethered to, to do with Psychological manipulation, and red was able to break them from that because she was from another world. Kids are more susceptible to it because their young and their brains aren’t fully developed yet, that’s my guess.
@Halal Quinn there is a theory that Jason probably had a relationship with his tethered when they travelled to lake house. I think his tethered switched spots with him. Notice how Lupita's character tells Jason to stop walking towards the fire. When they are at the beach, Jason is digging a tunnel. Jason is also not playing on the beach, he goes directly to the same place where Lupita's tethered switch her. But that's just a theory.
Some things I just noticed on my first watch, may edit after a second: - Jason’s older sister (I forget her name) ran track for a while but hated it, that’s why her tethered is such a good runner because they’re opposites - Jason could barely start a fire, yet his tethered was some type of fire expert, also being his opposite
ShiftsLive they’re not supposed to be opposites they’re a failed experiment that was to simulate the lives of everyday people but they failed to have the same soul
Matthias Harris Actually they failed to have different souls. They share the same soul and that’s how they’re connected. I’m already aware of all of that Matthias, so thank you for your astute observation. However I was pointing out that the tethered have traits and little details about themselves that are opposite to traits that their real life counterparts have.
I hate this new theory of Jason was switch with his tethered. When in fact that's not true at all. Because Red explained in her story of the princess and her shadow of how her children where born. Plus did any one else catch how Reds children were born they died the same way. Like the tethered daughter was born laughing and when she died, she was laughing. And Jason was born from fire, and he died in fire. Did anyone else see the Easter egg of "Get Out" when Jason was eating fruitloops with out milk. Genius!
What I don't understand is how he could have switched when his tethered double has a very visible scar. It's not like he could have wandered off at the beach, swapped with his double and had the scar heal ready for that night. And I guess theoretically he could have switched at some other time, maybe in a previous summer, but it'd be bad storytelling not to set up something so important.
To me, Lupita's acting in both roles saved this movie. If that storyline wasn't so good then the movie would be almost completely hollow. I also thought it was bit odd how good everyone was at killing the doppelgängers. The Dad sold it because he seemed very normal but the kids almost seemed happy to kill, especially the daughter.
Yes....I agree. She is so good. I saw the movie twice...one reason because I wanted to see her performance. I like it but it is also sad. Her harsh life caused her to be unsettled, to say the least.
Yes!!! That part!!! I felt chills, but I also felt so bad for them at the same time. Also that scene when she walks into the house of mirrors for the first time.
I think there is something in how the tethered originally could only imitate their original counterparts in a disjointed, jerky way (their recriation of the carnival), but since she was the real Addy, she eventually managed to "feel they dance" and actually perform it, leading the others to ser her as something more "evolved"
Well Grace, I didn’t see the twist end coming 😂. I did think something happened that was so traumatic that caused her to stop speaking. There was the mention of PTSD at one point. I did think at one point that the mother was morphing into one of the tethered, but your explanation makes sense. I really loved the film. I didn’t think it was as good as Get Out, but the cast lifted up this movie for me
Exactly how I felt! I thought she was morphing into her tethered version and her tethered version was morphing into her. I thought at the end they’d switch places or the movie would try to leave it open ended who was who kinda like Annihilation. But I like the ending we got after some thought.
Much of the movie was about class to me. The tethered are the underclass revolting against the privledged. Mimicks the class issues we have in America. Also the tethered have always been here but they are seen as other. Commentary on immigration? Stuck out to me when Red says "We're Americans." Jason seeming change in how he sees his mothermay be representative of the younger generations seeing through the BS of the oldergenerations and the system they've created. Hands across America happened under Regan when America was in a cops war with Russia. Representative of the facade America tries to put on to cover up is problems with happy imagery. The tethered gruesome acts juxtaposed to what Hands Across America's facade of American unity.
Little Jason controls his doppelganger because they're the same person. Do u remember when everyone in the basement was mimicking everything the ppl were doing up top? Ppl eating fries, at the basement ppl eating rabbits. So they do exactly wat the original ppl do
Why would Adelaide just go along with being kept below? She knows better, and there isn't any supervision, so why wouldn't she just go back up, and say, 'hey, it's really me' or 'help me!' to some cop/authority figure, and given that SHE can talk, and her doppelganger can't, she has a pretty strong case.
Thank you!! I literally said those things coming out of the movie theater. Like, clearly you can talk and everyone at the bottom was basically “brain dead”, she could’ve easily gotten out and left the bottom and went up the escalator.
WedgeOfSpite I know she passed out when she was choked and dragged down so she wouldn’t know the exact root to the surface and who knows how long she was handcuffed to the bed. I doubt she had any help getting out since all the tethered are basically feral.
@@Dreamer101ization Yes. Handcuffing the mother character in retaliation os the very first thing Red does before setting her "family" on them. I would think that hints Red might have remained handcuffed for quite some time.
The Scissors are both a symbol to cut the tether between the other version with the utility and physical means to do so. "I've got no strings on me.". The jumpsuit is a symbol of a uniform as well being a prisoner. The rabbits are a symbol Wonderland you know down the rabbit hole we're all mad here. And what a food source. As to where they got all that stuff I have no idea.
I’m fine with handwaving away a lot of the plot holes with the tethered just existing underground, but where do they get the identical material goods?? Why did they have an exact thriller T-shirt down there?
I don’t get the Hands Across America thing BUT I think I understand why Jason was able to “control” his double. You said yourself that Lupita (forget the characters name) was able to have that connection with Jason because he took after her, in that they were both kind of like the tethered. By that logic, since Red is actually from the surface, then her son would also be a little bit like her in that sense, meaning they both would be a little like the people on the surface. So that’s why Jason could connect with his double. They were BOTH part surface and part tethered. But I think that Jason was able to control the double rather than vice versa because Jason was still “more” surface and was able to control the more primal version. That or maybe since Jason was able to control the fire (with his ring) then he was able to therefore control Jason? Hmm, maybe I’m not as sure as I thought.
Could it also be because they were created to be mere shadows of people in the surface? We saw their life just be an imitation of whatever the surface people did. Maybe it could be that the bottom version was returning to his roots for a brief moment. Just throwing another idea out there.
Brandon Perkins I was thinking this: Any of them could have controlled their tether if they tried. Or at least influenced them. But she said his tether was always weird and animalistic, so he was simply more coachable. But the human got in some kind of rhythm with him or something. He entranced the tether with his trick and then controlled him. But he didn't really control him. To me it looked more like the tether was deliberately copying the boy. So with the car on fire he just got his attention and got the tether to copy him again. Like playing a mime game with a child.
Also we know Red Lupita was trying to get to Jason as bate so a safe bet would be to asume bottom Jason was helping her get to him without getting caught by the other family members.
I didnt.. now I get to watch it again in a different way.. it explains some dialogue and some of the lapita nyong'o's choices.. but because there was no jump-scare at the beginning I didn't see the switch
@@yourlittlebrotherGabrielReview Shes, not Starfire in the DCEU she's only Starfire for their dc tv universe which means she could still play Storm for the MCU movie universe.
@@gds481300 Well is they had standards they wouldn't rehire James Gunn and It's would be smart to hire Anna if they wanted to prove that DC is wasting their talent potential
Spoiler Talk Below: I think the part about hands across America was based around her childhood. when she was watching tv before her trip she saw the commercial, and later we see that when the tethered version switched with her, they switched shirts as well and hers was a hands across America shirt. They thought that, that made them americans, like when she said in the invasion scene, “We’re Americans.” anyone else have any ideas?
Jason was a Tethered. Pluto was human. They give so many clues. They tell you at the beginning that Jason has been different since the last time they went there
Okay, I just saw this movie so I didn’t have the full time to think about this, but here’s my shot at some of your questions. I thought one of the main messages of this movie was that so much of life is purely about how you are born, not your innate capabilities. The original clone of Adelaide was easily able to assume her life above ground and be successful. The clone’s themselves seemed to be a metaphor for the poorest of people. Hand Across America was Red’s first and only encounter with helping the poor. I think the child’s logic argument here definitely sticks- she was what six or seven when they got switched? Not entirely sure what phase two was supposed to be after the whole holding hands thing, though. The tethered are all linked to those above ground because they share a soul. In the cloning process, apparently, you can not create a brand new soul. Not sure when exactly they were all abandoned down there, but Red says that they slowly became insane. School stuff must’ve been there in the beginning when the “project” was fully funded. In their insane state, they mindlessly recreated that which was going on above them. It seems like the tether provided that kind of spatial connection as well as some personality aspects. Okay, so dancing. The only thing I can think of for that is that this was the newly switched Adelaide’s first real emotional connection with the real world. So, since they are tethered, Red felt that in someway too below ground. It seemed like at first Red’s dancing was horrible and then it slowly became closer to real life. So instead of this mindless mimicking, she was able to make a real connection. Absolutely no explanation for the outfits. Why the red jumpsuits and how the heck were they all wearing the same clothes as their “surface” counterparts? The scissors Red references in her original speech saying something like, “the above girl got soft pretty presents, but all the below girl got were hard, sharp things that cut her hands.” Hence, gloves? They also must be symbolic of the clones severing their tether with the above people. No idea how they actually obtained this stuff though. There was certainly very strong symbolism running throughout this movie just like get out, so I can’t wait to rewatch and see what I catch.Definitely some plot holes, but this was my best shot.
I agree. The tethered are the have nots in society. Mindlessly copying what the privileged do above, until they're awoken from the Matrix by the switched girl, who leads the revolt.
Raph Reyes yes definitely haha love the matrix analogy. I think that grace has a point that all of this could have been a little better fleshed out. There are definitely unanswered questions. But, overall this movie was one hell of a ride and if you dig deep enough there are some answers to find.
I find it interesting that the movie “The Right Stuff” has been featured in two big movies recently. In “Us” the opening shot shows a shelf with a double tape VHS copy of the movie while the TV plays the hands across America commercial. And in Captain Marvel at the beginning she crash lands into a Blockbuster store and picks up a copy of the same movie and examines it for a quick second. I can see why it was chosen for Captain Marvel but any insight into why it was chosen for this movie?
I believe the reason Jasons tethered backed up into the fire was because he was sacrificing himself to trap the real Jason for Red. Jason figured it was a trap and started moving away in hopes that he would sacrifice himself to save his family. And Tethered Jason showed it was the right choice by copying him. He showed that if he keeps doing it they would both be scarified cause Tethered Jason probably knew Red was there hiding since its probably her plan. And of course i believe Tethered Jason would sacrifice cause he was completely loyal to Red and Red showed and said she didnt care about the "family" around her. She never mourned any of their deaths at all.
I thought ‘Us’ was a dope film. I’m reading the contrary down my newsfeed, though. 🤷🏿♂️ Ironically, it seems to be only coming from (wait for it)... “us”... lol. But in all seriousness, I think Jordan Peele did a great job pushing the envelope in the horror genre. I think it’s the polar opposite of “trash”. I found it to be a masterful work of art. I think creating a film that’s allegorical for duality that you can view for a second-time from a reverse angle to see an entirely different perspective and understanding (which is the concept of duality) is brilliant.
With the tethered Jason burning in the fire, I think every time real Jason would play with thing on his finger, the tethered one would start copying him. When he was in the car, he was playing with the thing until they got there, and thats why he was copying him.
Another question kinda answered (maybe): A lot of people are wondering why the tethered didn’t leave sooner and my response to this would be that I’m thinking the movie is symbolic of the biblical rapture. Jeremiah 11:11 in the Bible roughly translated is “and I shall bring upon them a terrible evil, and though they will cry out to me, I will not listen.” Which is referring to the end of times. In the Bible, the rapture occurs when God says it’s time, and it results in chosen people disappearing. This would explain why Red is adamant on the entire events of the movie being an act of God. Adelaide and Red were chosen to enact the rapture essentially, which is what makes them special. And think about it.....what would be the perfect way to make hundreds of thousands of people disappear???? By replacing them with doppelgängers. This is also represented by the escalator, the stairway to heaven. And why the tethered are mimicking everything in the sewers. “As in heaven so on earth” is essentially what that is referencing. I think this movie unlike Get Out is EXTREMELY symbolic which is why there’s so many questions in the end. Let me know what you guys think about all of this
It’s more thrilling than it is terrifying. You should be fine, there isn’t much scary imagery. The only scene that was really had me at the edge of my seat was the beginning and the end fight between the two Adelaides.
Lupita’s performance alone is worth the ticket price, she was just so good in this. And like you said Grace this is definitely her best role yet, this film allowed her to play a character that really challenged her acting range. I would love for her to get an Oscar nom but sadly they look pst horror films when it comes to Oscars
I think Red and Adelaide's relationship is special because for them I think the experiment worked. The tethered was able to control the surface dweller and bc there was no purpose to the tethered anymore, she was able to use her ability for selfish gain.
The Hands Across America, I think, is supposed to be a commentary on the film's commentary of class relations. Hands Across America was done to fight against hunger, poverty, and homelessness in America. The tethered doing it was supposed to be a protest against the way that they had been treated, or rather the way that they had to live hard lives while their surface counterparts got all they wanted (like similar class differences in the real world). The other thing that Peele might have done as a metaphor is that the line of tethered also works as a nod to the idea of redlining with a physical red line. Just my thoughts on it at least.
I thought Jason's Tethered version was mimicking him, which started early on when they were playing, so that's why Jason walked backwards until his tethered version was in the fire (and strangely stayed in the fire until he died). Another question. The intro only mentions tunnels in the United States and that alone makes you question how the Tethered could act out their normal selves spatially, but what if the normal person goes overseas? It makes no sense. Another thing that makes no sense is Gabe's irrational pleading with the Tethered in the house, like "take the wallet", "take the boat", etc. Did he really think they were after something material?
Did anyone else love the dancing scene at the end of the movie and how it was set against that very creepy, yet beautiful version of “I Got 5 On It?” That was so good.
The connection between Jason and tethered Ade makes me think that Jason has more tethered qualities than his sister does, despite both being half human. Jason was also the only one who realized his mother was not who he thought she was.
I think the sister had tethered qualities too though, the way she ruthlessly killed those twins and her other half in the car and seemed to be proud of how many kills she was gathering was very tethered like in my opinion. I think Jason figured out his mother, not because of his tethered side but because he saw her growl and become animalistic while she was killing the twin.
I feel like the reason why Pluto copies Jason is because Pluto is essentially feral. And when he met Jason, he wanted to try to understand him. So he copied him thinking he could be more like Jason. I agree a lot of things still didn't make sense (or just not properly understood yet) but the movie was one hell of a treat for me.
I personally thought the second half of the film was really good, especially the fight scene and the twist reveal! I suspect you didn’t like it as much because you had already figured out the twist by the beginning of the film.
One point I noticed was with the dancing scenes at the end between Lupita and Red. Both were putting in ample amount of time and effort to become skilled at something (dancing) same amount of work and dedication while only one was reaping the benefits from it (being cheered on and praised in front of a crowd) I saw it as a metaphor for impoverished people that work just as hard as privileged people but their work goes unnoticed and isn’t rewarded the same way due to their status (being “below ground” and oppressed).
the main porpose of the copies were to control the real people up above... red was controlled by her tether and her son that takes after her got the same ability
The film was meh in my opinion, way way over hyped. It was not as good as get out and the movie is overall predictable. I was massively disappointed and the film never really felt like it escalated in way that I felt tense watching it.
The conflict between public and private persona is a universal issue. The tethered is inner conflict rising to the top and could be a metaphor for code switching.
I’m so annoyed that I can’t figure out what Red was whispering to Adelaide during their fight scene when Red has the scissors held up to Adelaide. Even after watching a second time I still couldn’t pick up any of what she was whispering 😱😭
That was such a great movie to inspire so many theories. It's worth re-watching just to see more subtle clues and to empathize a little more with the tethered. I'll watch it again just to understand the Jason / Pluto connection. I believe Red planned on kidnapping Jason to replace her monstrous Pluto. Or maybe the boys already had their souls swapped around. Either way, those boys were more tethered together than the others. They played together
My question is who or what made the tethered and what allowed them to make them; like did they get DNA or something? Does somebody know, maybe I missed that in the movie
In my head, they are automatically created when you are born, like sort of this hell / other dimension. As they say in the movie : a shadow version of you.
@@deadschooled There is no need to pick on someone if they have a question or opinion on somethign. You calling him that is very disrespectful and unresponcible and I think you should leave this channel and go pick reflect on what you said
The point you missed about the dance was that they finish differently. The tethered version above leaps for the sky and the one below does a move where she caves in. The thing is that the tethered are connected to the ones above so since the real Adelaide was below she never had to mimic her tethered version above and the doppelgänger I guess grew apart or independent above. Where the tethered just mimic without thought, Red was forced to live her life based on how Adelaide lives hers because the families tethered versions would mimic their doppelgängers life. She basically Abraham raped Red because he thoughtlessly would be mimicking the above dad. I think the son was able to control his tethered version because maybe him and his doppelgänger shared half a soul and were more closely bonded. I don’t know it’s a lot to think about, but it’s all up to interpretation like Peele said. So really any theories possible.
To answer a couple of points, the scissors was symbolic to represent the 'untethering' - remember the paper was cut towards the end. The reason why the tether broke away because she 'found god', as was explained later in the movie. The other details, I believe you are overthinking it. Great movie imho.
Did you catch that the movie "The Right Stuff" is referenced in both US and Capt.Marvel and both movies twist is based off understanding that the bad guys arent the bad guys you thought they were, hmmmm 🤔
Is Jordan Peel a fan of the Junji Ito horror comics? Because the plot sounds awfully similar to something that would be born from those horror stories.
In my opinion, I don’t think Jason and Lupita’s character at the end were smiling at each other. The look he gave her was of distrust but she knows that he knows she’s actually the tethered
Sam Gutierrez Yeah, I didn’t see a smile from the son.
Sam Gutierrez that and after he realized who she was, he pulled down his mask, which he did whenever he felt afraid.
How did the son find out though?
Japple he was hiding in a locker in the room where she killed “red” and heard her laugh like tethered do and figured it out
Japple or Red told him while she was waiting for Adelaide to come find them. Or he could just tell something was off. I kinda thought he started thinking she was different when he saw her use the scissors to kill the last twin.
I’m surprised no one picked up on or talked about the whistling in the movie and how significant it is. The real Adelaide whistled when she became frightened. It was a self soothing method. She began whistling in the house of mirrors when she became scared and her doppelgänger copied her. She whistled when she came in contact with her doppelgänger after all those years in the scenes where they invaded the family’s home. The real Adelaide or “Red” tried to whistle at the end when she was dying. The whistling gave it away that the switch took place the whole time. I knew right away after that.
The itsy bitsy spider. She sees the spider on the mirrored coffee table. Then later that day, Adelaide crushed Red's head in the same mirrored coffee table the spider was on.
Hurricane Ethyl so you realized at the end?
Kris Stovall no during the home invasion when she came in whistling.
Kris Stovall the end just really solidified it.
True but my perception of the whistling in the house could have been used as intimidation by the real Adelaide or her doppelganger, as her doppelganger copied it when they were children as a way to scare her I thought. I don't think the whistling in the house gave it away at all.
Scissors are two blades tethered together, that’s probably why peele used scissors as the weapon choice. Love the video
Peele also stated that the rabbit ears are like scissors.
To answer some of your questions:
I think the point of the Hands Across America bit is the fact that the tethered are trying to prove they are just as human as those above. Hands Across America was planned to literally span across mountain ranges and rivers like the tethered did.
In reality. Hands Across America failed. But the tethered were so committed to their cause that they did what those above failed to accomplish, but because they were down below, they couldn’t have possibly known that Hands Across America failed. So to them, they’re just doing what they assume those above did.
I think this is most shown by Red’s line when they ask “Who are you?” And she responds “We’re Americans.” This film is truly about America and I think when you stop trying to think about everything on a global scale and just focus on America, some of the movie starts to make some more sense, to me at least. Especially since not EVERYONE has a tethered since it is a government experiment after all, it would only be something going on specifically in America.
romeostruedude of course! I wasn’t saying that the tethered are better than the surface people. I just meant that by performing Hands Across America, it was the tethered’s way of proving they’re better than Americans.
But just because the tethered believe they’re better, doesn’t make it true. So you’re absolutely right!
That’s what I was thinking. Especially (I was thinking), look at the title of the movie. Us (U.S. = United States)
Danny’s Disaster what makes the Hands Across America moment great, is how it’s tied to the Lupita reveal at the end. So yes, symbolically it has all these deep meanings. It’s also just a plan from a young girl who saw it as a possible defining moment in her childhood. That’s when her development stopped, and she latched onto the memories of the topside world that she had.
Danny’s Disaster that’s is a great break down, this movie is also is about the conscious (the Tethered) vs subconscious of the mind, and the Tethered also a representation of the family personal insecurities. It’s like people do a lot of great things and at the same time we spend too much time and energy on things that doesn’t make sense.
It is even more simple than that. On the TV the hands cross America promo was the last thing the real Adeline saw before she went out and was kidnapped and replaced, so planning her revenge, that resonated with her to recreate when she was free.
Also, Winston Duke was too damn big for that bed LMAO that was the funniest part about him getting in that bed
😂😂😂
D. Foxx Mannnnnnnn I died laughing cus I thought I was the only one that felt that way!
Cory Drummond lmao as soon as he started climbing in the bed I was like he too big for this shit! 😂😂😂 That was probably a queen size bed and he made it look like a twin size
😂😂😂
The audience I saw it with started laughing at that part
so disturbing to think the reason the tethered version of the young boy had a scarred face
was because of the amount of successful times the thumb trick worked in the underground and burned his face against his own will.
That never occurred to me! Thanks for sharing
I also figured this out. I told my cousin as soon as we finish the movie that possibility.
Do you think the movie should have shown that?
but i don't see how since the originals were the ones who controlled the tethered. how was it [possible?
Vangundy they control them, but not the things they interact with. It’s like the child birth. One had a c section, operated by professional doctors. The other did it alone. Cutting into herself.
One used a lighter that didn’t always spark. The other used a matchstick that could always burn.
The Hands Across America was because the "Tethered" had fulfilled their purpose, and there was no point in moving around anymore, because the "Tethered" are mimicking their counterparts. They were uniting together as one. I think Jordan Peele was trying to symbolize that the "Us" is their own enemy, because all we do is fight with each other rather than working together as a country. Just my interpretation.
kinda corny :(
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Doesn't make it any less valid a theory though.
it's about more than that
wath peeles notes on it
@@jeang3258 not really. It's definitely different though
@@ussishkingang7194 this sentence you just wrote is not coherent and makes no sense.
I guess I’m the only one who didn’t guess it, I didn’t guess it as all💀I thought the opening scene was to show why the main character was so paranoid, and I thought it was because she had trauma from her past experience with the tethered. I honestly never thought they were switched until they showed it.
Base Benthem same haha dont feel bad 😂
Same- everyone thinks they're so clever but it's easy to say you knew it all along AFTER you've seen it...
I figured it out because I'm a huge Twilight Zone fan, and I knew how the episode that this movie was based on ended. The trailer suggested to me that there might be a similar twist ending. Had I not watched the Twilight Zone episode I probably wouldn't have known either.
Same, don't worry about it.
Same, and I thought Red led the uprising because she was the only one who knew about the surface dwellers due to the opening scene
it was super creepy that Lupita Nyongo's doppelganger has this super deep and husky voice in the trailer, now i know why...
Billy Billy I just read your review without watching the rest of this and I think I know the twist
Probably . I think I suspect the same . Just by watching the trailers .
Jake Quinn what do you think the twist is? I’m curious and I won’t tell you if you are right.
She got the same voice coach as Eddy Redmayne in Jupiter Ascending.
That’s the real atilade not the doppelgänger
I love that Elisabeth Moss's double had cuts on her face to mirror that she had work done
the reason their jumpsuits were red and had one glove was because ‘thriller’ was her most recent memory with that shirt and the iconic red suit and one glove
I think Red sounded that way because she she was choked so hard by her doppelganger
Wendell Kimbrough She also didn’t use her voice in 30+ years.
She crushed her vocal chords AND she only had the developed vocabulary of a child
Crushed windpipe
The reason why Jason could control his tether is because it's a representation of how children are more impressionable then adults and I'm more inclined to mimic because they don't have a set identity yet
I think it’s the sort of film that doesn’t make complete logical sense as it is one giant allegory for class, privilege and our perception of ‘otherness’. You essentially have two of the same person but one thrives above because of the privileges she’s afforded and one suffers because she is not afforded the same opportunities. Really telling that in the end the “bad” cloned one thrives above because she’s given the privilege of education and money and societal structure and becomes a good, loving person (Though she forcibly takes this for herself) and the “good” human one is forced to suffer as the lowest of the low class wise through no doing of her own (she was forced) and becomes vengeful and murderous. Kind of like, no one is born “good” or “bad” but how the surroundings we grow up in make us who we are.
How come this comment doesn't have more likes?
Spice _ Sprinkles wow no shit sherlock
I think she was crazy and none of this happend. It was all in her head and she is in a straight jacket in some mental hospital. Yea, that makes more sense.
"I want my little girl back" was the line that gave it away for me
I didn't get the twist.
I love that when the family watched the news, Lupita's character says "They don't even know these are clones yet. That's the worst part."
ooooo good catch
Explain this to me.
@@EviEhvee She was referring to the news anchor not being fully aware of the situation because they had no clue the attackers were clones. Turns out that her statement was quite ironic since she didn't realize she was a clone.
Edin Ibranović ohhhhh the irony. Ok I get it lol.
I do have an answer about Hands Across America and other stuff. The first thing you see in the film is a commercial of a movement called Hands Across America back in the 80s. This impacted the real child Adelaide before she was switched. She then used this movement as a basis for her revenge plan on her copy that took her place that she worked on for so long but made it super simple bc the tethered are basically brain dead. All the tethered then followed her as explained by Red because they knew she was different. She could speak unlike them and had intellect because she was a real person even though they didn't know. As for the clothing and scissors, Red (Real Adelaide) explained that her plan needed to be perfect so she can get revenge and everyone from below and surface to the top. Everyone wearing all red, a glove, and a small but affective tool for anything in there way was just a way to get everyone to be on sync bc it was a basic plan.
Another reason she chose Hands Across America fro her plan is when her doppelgänger took her thriller shirt and went back up to the surface she was left only with her Hands Across America T-shirt on and I'm guessing it left a lasting impression on her.
But where did they get all those items? Amazon? Lol jk seriously tho did Red resurface n go but them all matching rompers and gloves and scissors? Did they have a store they could shop at down there? I can help but wonder I loved the movie btw but definitely left with a bunch of questions I’m gonna go watch it again.
and you see that with tethered adelaide cuz she acts normal 90% of the time cuz she was above 90% of her life
1. I caught the twist when you first see them together. The difference between her and her Tethered and the way the rest of them act is too different. She's the only one who can verbalize, she's the only one who seems to have a grudge against her other half.
2. This did play out like a large extended Twilight Zone movie. And thus, I don't think we as an audience NEED all the answers. The Hands Across America, the everyone having their own "Tethered"- I don't think the movie NEEDS to answer these questions. If a Twilight Zone episode shows all it's cards, it loses it's mystery and eeriness.
3. Lupita deserves the Oscar. Honestly I genuinely forgot that they were played by the same person and then remembered and was in complete awe at how transformative it was. Lord, the physical tics, the voice shift, the face acting. Just jarringly good.
I felt disappointed and unsatisfied about the whole "they clone people underground to control you" angle -- a more mysterious cause would've suited the movie much better. Some shadowy people are able to exactly clone everyone, even cross generationally (?), and mimic everything the others are doing to control them -- but the clones are forced to mimic the originals in actuality? If it's more effective as an allegory, don't verbalize a disappointing cause in the movie, let it stand on its own on imagery and symbols!
I felt that it was about socioeconomic inequality. Very often throughout history, the rise of the lower class comes from someone in a higher class leading the revolt.
Raph Reyes a higher class person leading the revolt? Examples?
@@Eserr7856 A lot of them in Latin America and all over the world in general, but the main one I can think of right now is the Mexican Revolution lol. It's mostly high-class intellectuals who are the ones who question society and then pave the way for the oppressed groups.
@@Eserr7856 Fidel Castro was from a rich family
I thought it was a commentary on American capitalism and our culture of success. True Adelaide said “you could’ve took me with you”. I took this as saying our view of success is usually tied with the failure of someone else. The me > them mentality.
Wait, now that I think about it, how does that line work considering the twist?
@@Thewhitequeen0 The Tethered one became civilized, learned to speak and generally her life improved. But she never once went back to her roots to try and help her brothers and sisters come up too, even though she knew how fucked up their lives are.
Most important quote in the entire movie!!!! Instead of helping each other out, we would rather see you killed
@@kadarabdullahi but I mean literally. The real Adelaide is the one who said that line, even though she was the one who was knocked out and chained down there by the other. It makes no sense.
@@Thewhitequeen0 exactly. That's where the concept fell apart for me too. When "Red" is giving the backstory, she makes it clear that she hates Adelaide for getting to live a normal life and that she could have come back for her....why would the normal, untethered human have said that? Why would she expect this obviously demented, evil girl to come back for her? That one line made the twist stop working for me. Still enjoyed the movie tho.
She knew where the leave a key was because that was her grandmas house when she was younger in normal society before the swap
As a white person I can confirm the leave a key stereotype
Emily Weber 😆
LOL
As a black persons stereotype, we dont use that crap and lock the door, i will break in ur home
I’m white and I don’t know any white people with keys outside their houses haha!
@@ertfgghhhh 👀
I liked that they hinted at the twist in the fight scene.
Through out the film they show you that the tethered people have a higher tolerance for pain. And, when they were fighting other tethers, the film showed you had to use excessive force to kill them.
Her swinging the fire poker into Tim tethered characters head which would take any human down, but he laughs it off and keeps going.
The daughter back being broken and she keeps laughing.
Her getting sliced up through out the fight and stab directly in the abdomen, but she keeps going. Now, before the twist you think it's just a mother's determination to get her child back.
But, it only takes one stab to the surface lupita and she's down right away.
I might not be in love with this ending. But, Peele did a great job leaving clues just with the visual storytelling.
That's very clever! Thanks!
The only reason why I was able to figure out the this was because of the trailer. In the first trailer, they show the tethered version of Lupita's young character choking the real version of her. When Jordan cut the choking scene in the opening scene, I knew something was up!0
Omg true!!!!!
I'm calling it: when it comes to awards nominations, Lupita Nyong'o is next year's Toni Collette.
she is going to get snubbed?
@@2284-l6x snubbed and overlooked specifically for a performance in a horror movie
Nah she'll get nominated because she's black
@@yippykiyay893 Or because she's talented, but whatever suits your racism
Everyone says this shit like Toni was the first genre snub. Everyone forgets Essie Davis in The Babadook. That performance deserved an Oscar.
The tethered were doing a protest, they Learned from young Lupita that hands across America was about bringing awareness to the oppressed and they really wanted to do the same.
Also Grace, I think Jason was able to "control" his doppelganger because they were connected. They were the only two that didn't really have an antagonistic relationship, there was something deeper between them. And I think now I get it, because Jason was took after his mother who was the original tethered.
Actually I think it might be a clever misdirect. The initial encounter is described as a trap with pluto setting the trail of oil to the car forcing everyone to get out. Jason then as you see puts arms up and walks backward. So pluto mimics this and walks backwards into the fire revealing that Jason can control his tethered. However I believe this entire scene is the real trap and the oil lined up to the car is a smoke screen for the real trap. We as the viewer like the family believe that Jason can "control" his Tethered. Yet as Jason walks further backwards he is actually walking closer to Red who is hiding and waiting. This is the real trap, Red has executed a plan that involves Pluto sacrificing himself in order to give the family/ Jason the illusion of control when in actuality the tethered/Red are in control. Its a nice paradigm shift showing the tethered are now in control not their counterparts
I just thought the kid simply still wanted to play.
Remember that this plan was created by a child 🤷🏾♀️
For hands across America: I took it as the original charity was for unprivileged people, and the shadow versions felt underprivileged. Only connection I could find
I think it was to do with showing a divided america and tying it into the real world today.
Brandon Marvel Unus Mundus = Hands Across America. Synchronicity!
Ah, that makes sense.
I was thinking it had to do with the tethered being homeless
The scene in the car where the true tethered lupita has to teach her son how to listen to the beat of the music also shows their tethered roots
Seth Tan how so?
Shes snapping off beat! Good catch! Also she eats strawberries because she knows the tethered eat raw rabbit and he barely eats his food. He keeps getting up from the table.
@@bambeeyejoy She wasn't snapping offbeat, she was just snapping on the upbeat instead of the usual downbeat - but still very revealing, as I thought that too when watching
She was very off beat
@@bambeeyejoy and she only drinks water.
They are connected because it is 2 bodies with 1 soul so that is why they are tethered. It says that in the film
Halal Quinn Maybe because he was young. I think the government programmed them to do what the person they were tethered to, to do with Psychological manipulation, and red was able to break them from that because she was from another world. Kids are more susceptible to it because their young and their brains aren’t fully developed yet, that’s my guess.
@Halal Quinn there is a theory that Jason probably had a relationship with his tethered when they travelled to lake house. I think his tethered switched spots with him. Notice how Lupita's character tells Jason to stop walking towards the fire. When they are at the beach, Jason is digging a tunnel. Jason is also not playing on the beach, he goes directly to the same place where Lupita's tethered switch her. But that's just a theory.
Funniest Scene: "am driving, I have the highest kill count......" To decide who gets to drive🤣🤣 A great movie in general.!!!
Peter Mukiibi another funny part was “what kind of white people shit?” 😂😂😂
@@kaleyjoplinRAWRR yaaa for sure.. funny bits amongst all the slasher stuff.. the acting was top notch.. :)
kaleyjoplinRAWRR That was the funniest to me. Made me laugh out loud 😆
Some things I just noticed on my first watch, may edit after a second:
- Jason’s older sister (I forget her name) ran track for a while but hated it, that’s why her tethered is such a good runner because they’re opposites
- Jason could barely start a fire, yet his tethered was some type of fire expert, also being his opposite
ShiftsLive they’re not opposites goofball
ShiftsLive they’re not supposed to be opposites they’re a failed experiment that was to simulate the lives of everyday people but they failed to have the same soul
Matthias Harris Actually they failed to have different souls. They share the same soul and that’s how they’re connected. I’m already aware of all of that Matthias, so thank you for your astute observation. However I was pointing out that the tethered have traits and little details about themselves that are opposite to traits that their real life counterparts have.
Matthias Harris hush queen
Mykee Wattz lol your a clown be gone lol buddy
I hate this new theory of Jason was switch with his tethered. When in fact that's not true at all. Because Red explained in her story of the princess and her shadow of how her children where born. Plus did any one else catch how Reds children were born they died the same way. Like the tethered daughter was born laughing and when she died, she was laughing. And Jason was born from fire, and he died in fire. Did anyone else see the Easter egg of "Get Out" when Jason was eating fruitloops with out milk. Genius!
What I don't understand is how he could have switched when his tethered double has a very visible scar. It's not like he could have wandered off at the beach, swapped with his double and had the scar heal ready for that night.
And I guess theoretically he could have switched at some other time, maybe in a previous summer, but it'd be bad storytelling not to set up something so important.
Give Lupita her things! She was totally committed as Red! 🙌🏾
Yes...second Oscar. Let me see who tops her this year. I don't think so.
The Hands Across America was a statement. It was to show “We are Here; We Exist”
To me, Lupita's acting in both roles saved this movie. If that storyline wasn't so good then the movie would be almost completely hollow. I also thought it was bit odd how good everyone was at killing the doppelgängers. The Dad sold it because he seemed very normal but the kids almost seemed happy to kill, especially the daughter.
That is what I have been saying from the beginning!! Its not just the Son the daughter really does take after her mother.
Kill or be killed
Because she son and the daughter were half tethered so they had violent tendencies and were less sensitive to killing.
Lupita will no doubt get her second Oscar nomination (wouldn't be surprised if it become her second win)
She was fun but to watch but isnt even close to what shes capable of.
Hell no. Your emotions are getting the best of you.
@@daniellove162 can't relate red was a role that was ouce in a life time and not basic
Yes....I agree. She is so good. I saw the movie twice...one reason because I wanted to see her performance. I like it but it is also sad. Her harsh life caused her to be unsettled, to say the least.
Lupita gave me "The Exorcist" vibes with her first appearance as "Red". Powerful performance.
how she creepily moved MAN
i couldnt look away from the screen when she was talking. amazing performance
I thought of her as both Dr. Lecter & Clarice Starling at the same time...
Yes, very powerful. I loved her look when she was going down the escalator. She was like, where is my child! Loved it.
When Adelaids father was showing his doppelgänger version at the amusement part that was the creepiest part to me 🥴
Yes!!! That part!!! I felt chills, but I also felt so bad for them at the same time. Also that scene when she walks into the house of mirrors for the first time.
The dancing scene was important because that was the first time the doppelgänger took control over the real Adelaide
Oh my gosh....the dancing/fight scene was awesome.
I think there is something in how the tethered originally could only imitate their original counterparts in a disjointed, jerky way (their recriation of the carnival), but since she was the real Addy, she eventually managed to "feel they dance" and actually perform it, leading the others to ser her as something more "evolved"
I knew they swapped placed when I saw Red stand in front of Lupita's mothers painting and put her head down as if she was mourning her death
Well Grace, I didn’t see the twist end coming 😂. I did think something happened that was so traumatic that caused her to stop speaking. There was the mention of PTSD at one point. I did think at one point that the mother was morphing into one of the tethered, but your explanation makes sense.
I really loved the film. I didn’t think it was as good as Get Out, but the cast lifted up this movie for me
Exactly how I felt! I thought she was morphing into her tethered version and her tethered version was morphing into her. I thought at the end they’d switch places or the movie would try to leave it open ended who was who kinda like Annihilation. But I like the ending we got after some thought.
I agreed and thought about the morph as a possibility too.
The hands across America shows the tethered are more united than the Americans today, at least that what I got out of it
Much of the movie was about class to me. The tethered are the underclass revolting against the privledged. Mimicks the class issues we have in America.
Also the tethered have always been here but they are seen as other. Commentary on immigration? Stuck out to me when Red says "We're Americans."
Jason seeming change in how he sees his mothermay be representative of the younger generations seeing through the BS of the oldergenerations and the system they've created.
Hands across America happened under Regan when America was in a cops war with Russia. Representative of the facade America tries to put on to cover up is problems with happy imagery. The tethered gruesome acts juxtaposed to what Hands Across America's facade of American unity.
Little Jason controls his doppelganger because they're the same person. Do u remember when everyone in the basement was mimicking everything the ppl were doing up top? Ppl eating fries, at the basement ppl eating rabbits. So they do exactly wat the original ppl do
Why would Adelaide just go along with being kept below? She knows better, and there isn't any supervision, so why wouldn't she just go back up, and say, 'hey, it's really me' or 'help me!' to some cop/authority figure, and given that SHE can talk, and her doppelganger can't, she has a pretty strong case.
Because that’s too logical and then the movie wouldn’t happen!
Thank you!! I literally said those things coming out of the movie theater. Like, clearly you can talk and everyone at the bottom was basically “brain dead”, she could’ve easily gotten out and left the bottom and went up the escalator.
WedgeOfSpite I know she passed out when she was choked and dragged down so she wouldn’t know the exact root to the surface and who knows how long she was handcuffed to the bed. I doubt she had any help getting out since all the tethered are basically feral.
@@Dreamer101ization Yes. Handcuffing the mother character in retaliation os the very first thing Red does before setting her "family" on them.
I would think that hints Red might have remained handcuffed for quite some time.
I think Jason was able to control him because he wasn’t scared of him anymore.
Jason couldn't control his tether. He just tricked him into playing along because the tether is young and more naive.
The Scissors are both a symbol to cut the tether between the other version with the utility and physical means to do so. "I've got no strings on me.". The jumpsuit is a symbol of a uniform as well being a prisoner. The rabbits are a symbol Wonderland you know down the rabbit hole we're all mad here. And what a food source. As to where they got all that stuff I have no idea.
I’m fine with handwaving away a lot of the plot holes with the tethered just existing underground, but where do they get the identical material goods?? Why did they have an exact thriller T-shirt down there?
I don’t get the Hands Across America thing BUT I think I understand why Jason was able to “control” his double.
You said yourself that Lupita (forget the characters name) was able to have that connection with Jason because he took after her, in that they were both kind of like the tethered.
By that logic, since Red is actually from the surface, then her son would also be a little bit like her in that sense, meaning they both would be a little like the people on the surface.
So that’s why Jason could connect with his double. They were BOTH part surface and part tethered. But I think that Jason was able to control the double rather than vice versa because Jason was still “more” surface and was able to control the more primal version.
That or maybe since Jason was able to control the fire (with his ring) then he was able to therefore control Jason?
Hmm, maybe I’m not as sure as I thought.
Hands Across America was all over the news during her childhood. She took it with her and used it to band together the tethered.
Could it also be because they were created to be mere shadows of people in the surface? We saw their life just be an imitation of whatever the surface people did. Maybe it could be that the bottom version was returning to his roots for a brief moment. Just throwing another idea out there.
Brandon Perkins I was thinking this:
Any of them could have controlled their tether if they tried. Or at least influenced them. But she said his tether was always weird and animalistic, so he was simply more coachable. But the human got in some kind of rhythm with him or something. He entranced the tether with his trick and then controlled him. But he didn't really control him. To me it looked more like the tether was deliberately copying the boy. So with the car on fire he just got his attention and got the tether to copy him again. Like playing a mime game with a child.
Also we know Red Lupita was trying to get to Jason as bate so a safe bet would be to asume bottom Jason was helping her get to him without getting caught by the other family members.
Abraham is also controled by the father's quirk of touching história classes and Jair, which Abraham imitated
Just FYI but the name Diop is actually pronounced Jope. It's a weird French spelling of a Wolof name.
I didn't know that. Thanks for letting us know!
Liked the movie but legit caught the twist so early on
I didnt.. now I get to watch it again in a different way.. it explains some dialogue and some of the lapita nyong'o's choices.. but because there was no jump-scare at the beginning I didn't see the switch
E-MAN that’s awesome! And mmm interesting
U got the twist with the son 2? And how he was switched as well?
Connor there was another twist.
Vinny Darnell the son couldn’t have been switched because those burns healed too well
Can we just get Anna Diop as Storm in the MCU
Myth She WOULD KILL IT!!! Granted, she’s already Starfire in the DCU, but we can pretend we don’t know lol.
@@yourlittlebrotherGabrielReview Shes, not Starfire in the DCEU she's only Starfire for their dc tv universe which means she could still play Storm for the MCU movie universe.
I love Anna but Kiki Layne is the perfect Storm.
@@myth7296 no way will marvel have her,they have standards
@@gds481300 Well is they had standards they wouldn't rehire James Gunn and It's would be smart to hire Anna if they wanted to prove that DC is wasting their talent potential
Spoiler Talk Below:
I think the part about hands across America was based around her childhood. when she was watching tv before her trip she saw the commercial, and later we see that when the tethered version switched with her, they switched shirts as well and hers was a hands across America shirt. They thought that, that made them americans, like when she said in the invasion scene, “We’re Americans.” anyone else have any ideas?
Jason was a Tethered. Pluto was human. They give so many clues. They tell you at the beginning that Jason has been different since the last time they went there
It’s a very interpretable movie.
I think it’s very purposely vague and what you bring to it.
Okay, I just saw this movie so I didn’t have the full time to think about this, but here’s my shot at some of your questions. I thought one of the main messages of this movie was that so much of life is purely about how you are born, not your innate capabilities. The original clone of Adelaide was easily able to assume her life above ground and be successful. The clone’s themselves seemed to be a metaphor for the poorest of people. Hand Across America was Red’s first and only encounter with helping the poor. I think the child’s logic argument here definitely sticks- she was what six or seven when they got switched? Not entirely sure what phase two was supposed to be after the whole holding hands thing, though.
The tethered are all linked to those above ground because they share a soul. In the cloning process, apparently, you can not create a brand new soul. Not sure when exactly they were all abandoned down there, but Red says that they slowly became insane. School stuff must’ve been there in the beginning when the “project” was fully funded. In their insane state, they mindlessly recreated that which was going on above them. It seems like the tether provided that kind of spatial connection as well as some personality aspects.
Okay, so dancing. The only thing I can think of for that is that this was the newly switched Adelaide’s first real emotional connection with the real world. So, since they are tethered, Red felt that in someway too below ground. It seemed like at first Red’s dancing was horrible and then it slowly became closer to real life. So instead of this mindless mimicking, she was able to make a real connection.
Absolutely no explanation for the outfits. Why the red jumpsuits and how the heck were they all wearing the same clothes as their “surface” counterparts? The scissors Red references in her original speech saying something like, “the above girl got soft pretty presents, but all the below girl got were hard, sharp things that cut her hands.” Hence, gloves? They also must be symbolic of the clones severing their tether with the above people. No idea how they actually obtained this stuff though.
There was certainly very strong symbolism running throughout this movie just like get out, so I can’t wait to rewatch and see what I catch.Definitely some plot holes, but this was my best shot.
Hopefully some of this at least partially answers your questions haha
Kate Belanger love this!
I agree. The tethered are the have nots in society. Mindlessly copying what the privileged do above, until they're awoken from the Matrix by the switched girl, who leads the revolt.
Raph Reyes yes definitely haha love the matrix analogy. I think that grace has a point that all of this could have been a little better fleshed out. There are definitely unanswered questions. But, overall this movie was one hell of a ride and if you dig deep enough there are some answers to find.
I find it interesting that the movie “The Right Stuff” has been featured in two big movies recently. In “Us” the opening shot shows a shelf with a double tape VHS copy of the movie while the TV plays the hands across America commercial. And in Captain Marvel at the beginning she crash lands into a Blockbuster store and picks up a copy of the same movie and examines it for a quick second. I can see why it was chosen for Captain Marvel but any insight into why it was chosen for this movie?
Just came back from seeing the movie and this is the first video I watched when I came home
Same
Me too!
Same
I saw it at a Matinee and they were having a $5 special, so I can literally say about this movie: I got $5 on it.
Haha! Same.
I believe the reason Jasons tethered backed up into the fire was because he was sacrificing himself to trap the real Jason for Red. Jason figured it was a trap and started moving away in hopes that he would sacrifice himself to save his family. And Tethered Jason showed it was the right choice by copying him. He showed that if he keeps doing it they would both be scarified cause Tethered Jason probably knew Red was there hiding since its probably her plan.
And of course i believe Tethered Jason would sacrifice cause he was completely loyal to Red and Red showed and said she didnt care about the "family" around her. She never mourned any of their deaths at all.
There were so many metaphors and so much symbolism in this movie. I have to watch it again to catch all of it, but all of the answers are there.
Did anyone also notice the significance of the police never showing up for black people in the hood 😂
Nah its just that the police clones killed them lol thats why they never arrived
Lol just a joke guys
Slater Girl riiiight lol
Same thing happened in Get Out. Also the white family's dependency on technology and luxury adds more socioeconomic commentary.
Amber Lou and for once trying to call the police for help didn’t help them
I thought ‘Us’ was a dope film. I’m reading the contrary down my newsfeed, though. 🤷🏿♂️ Ironically, it seems to be only coming from (wait for it)... “us”... lol.
But in all seriousness, I think Jordan Peele did a great job pushing the envelope in the horror genre. I think it’s the polar opposite of “trash”. I found it to be a masterful work of art. I think creating a film that’s allegorical for duality that you can view for a second-time from a reverse angle to see an entirely different perspective and understanding (which is the concept of duality) is brilliant.
Don’t you remember the twins were doing cartwheels at the beach?
With the tethered Jason burning in the fire, I think every time real Jason would play with thing on his finger, the tethered one would start copying him. When he was in the car, he was playing with the thing until they got there, and thats why he was copying him.
Another question kinda answered (maybe):
A lot of people are wondering why the tethered didn’t leave sooner and my response to this would be that I’m thinking the movie is symbolic of the biblical rapture.
Jeremiah 11:11 in the Bible roughly translated is “and I shall bring upon them a terrible evil, and though they will cry out to me, I will not listen.” Which is referring to the end of times. In the Bible, the rapture occurs when God says it’s time, and it results in chosen people disappearing.
This would explain why Red is adamant on the entire events of the movie being an act of God. Adelaide and Red were chosen to enact the rapture essentially, which is what makes them special. And think about it.....what would be the perfect way to make hundreds of thousands of people disappear???? By replacing them with doppelgängers.
This is also represented by the escalator, the stairway to heaven. And why the tethered are mimicking everything in the sewers. “As in heaven so on earth” is essentially what that is referencing.
I think this movie unlike Get Out is EXTREMELY symbolic which is why there’s so many questions in the end.
Let me know what you guys think about all of this
I've been watching spoiler reviews. It sounds freaky deaky. I want to watch it, but the imagery is freaking me out.
Blackbeard Premium its not that scary , I think you’ll be fine.
Very twisted chillin movie twilight zone feel ending was messed up
I bet the reveal of the tehtered boy's burned face was a great scene.
@@JSustain One of the best. Everyone in my theatre gasped. Also, Lupita as Red is the most terrifying part of the movie.
It’s more thrilling than it is terrifying. You should be fine, there isn’t much scary imagery. The only scene that was really had me at the edge of my seat was the beginning and the end fight between the two Adelaides.
Lupita’s performance alone is worth the ticket price, she was just so good in this. And like you said Grace this is definitely her best role yet, this film allowed her to play a character that really challenged her acting range. I would love for her to get an Oscar nom but sadly they look pst horror films when it comes to Oscars
Get out got something at least
Arnez Juggins yea but not for acting
I wish they didnt make the father/husband so goofy. Great actor tho. Lupita definitely owes alot to Peele, he gave her the best role of her career
Lupita was great in 12 years a slave!
Hopefully, she will get more good roles.
How did a tether control the original human ungrounded to dance? How was the original mimicking the dance?
I think Red and Adelaide's relationship is special because for them I think the experiment worked. The tethered was able to control the surface dweller and bc there was no purpose to the tethered anymore, she was able to use her ability for selfish gain.
I think it's because they shared a soul
YESSSS GRACE when she was against the car and out of focus and stood up gave me chills!!!!
If Daniel Kaluuya can get nominated for Get Out, Lupita for sure should get Oscar nominated for US !!!
Only a Grace spoiler video can pull me away from the NCAA tournament. Oh boy. I can’t wait! 😀👍
Wrestling or basketball
I read "oh boy. I cant wait " in graces voice
That's the f@990tiest shit I've ever heard
i'm pretty sure that the reason everyone had a doppelgänger was to show us that we are our own worst enemy.
Just saw the movie and came straight to this video. Love your videos!
The Hands Across America, I think, is supposed to be a commentary on the film's commentary of class relations. Hands Across America was done to fight against hunger, poverty, and homelessness in America. The tethered doing it was supposed to be a protest against the way that they had been treated, or rather the way that they had to live hard lives while their surface counterparts got all they wanted (like similar class differences in the real world). The other thing that Peele might have done as a metaphor is that the line of tethered also works as a nod to the idea of redlining with a physical red line. Just my thoughts on it at least.
I was really disappointed by this movie. The second half completely lost me and I never got back on. The twist was pretty obvious.
Jonathan Espinoza I feel the same... I hate finishing a movie saying WHAA
I had high expectations. I love Jordan Peele, he is definitely a creative person. I was disappointed.
You don’t understand the film that’s why you hated it
@@paulwillard81 Lol your trolling doesn't work on me.
I thought Jason's Tethered version was mimicking him, which started early on when they were playing, so that's why Jason walked backwards until his tethered version was in the fire (and strangely stayed in the fire until he died).
Another question. The intro only mentions tunnels in the United States and that alone makes you question how the Tethered could act out their normal selves spatially, but what if the normal person goes overseas? It makes no sense.
Another thing that makes no sense is Gabe's irrational pleading with the Tethered in the house, like "take the wallet", "take the boat", etc. Did he really think they were after something material?
I love being so oblivious, made that ending twist so much better when all the dots started connecting
The Hands Across America was to make a statement for the tethered.
Did anyone else love the dancing scene at the end of the movie and how it was set against that very creepy, yet beautiful version of “I Got 5 On It?” That was so good.
Yes, I loved this!!!!! Oh my gosh.....awesome. So unique. Awesome!!!
The connection between Jason and tethered Ade makes me think that Jason has more tethered qualities than his sister does, despite both being half human. Jason was also the only one who realized his mother was not who he thought she was.
I think the sister had tethered qualities too though, the way she ruthlessly killed those twins and her other half in the car and seemed to be proud of how many kills she was gathering was very tethered like in my opinion. I think Jason figured out his mother, not because of his tethered side but because he saw her growl and become animalistic while she was killing the twin.
I feel like the reason why Pluto copies Jason is because Pluto is essentially feral. And when he met Jason, he wanted to try to understand him. So he copied him thinking he could be more like Jason. I agree a lot of things still didn't make sense (or just not properly understood yet) but the movie was one hell of a treat for me.
I personally thought the second half of the film was really good, especially the fight scene and the twist reveal! I suspect you didn’t like it as much because you had already figured out the twist by the beginning of the film.
One point I noticed was with the dancing scenes at the end between Lupita and Red. Both were putting in ample amount of time and effort to become skilled at something (dancing) same amount of work and dedication while only one was reaping the benefits from it (being cheered on and praised in front of a crowd) I saw it as a metaphor for impoverished people that work just as hard as privileged people but their work goes unnoticed and isn’t rewarded the same way due to their status (being “below ground” and oppressed).
Lupita acting was superb. It's more comedy than horror which lightens the thrill.
the main porpose of the copies were to control the real people up above... red was controlled by her tether and her son that takes after her got the same ability
The film was meh in my opinion, way way over hyped. It was not as good as get out and the movie is overall predictable. I was massively disappointed and the film never really felt like it escalated in way that I felt tense watching it.
The conflict between public and private persona is a universal issue. The tethered is inner conflict rising to the top and could be a metaphor for code switching.
That's what it meant to me. Grace wouldn't even understand that.
I’m so annoyed that I can’t figure out what Red was whispering to Adelaide during their fight scene when Red has the scissors held up to Adelaide. Even after watching a second time I still couldn’t pick up any of what she was whispering 😱😭
That was such a great movie to inspire so many theories. It's worth re-watching just to see more subtle clues and to empathize a little more with the tethered. I'll watch it again just to understand the Jason / Pluto connection. I believe Red planned on kidnapping Jason to replace her monstrous Pluto. Or maybe the boys already had their souls swapped around. Either way, those boys were more tethered together than the others. They played together
I saw it twice. I am thinking about seeing it again on Sunday...My third time.
@@teeahtate yes! I'm hoping that Peele does a prequel, a sequel, and a miniseries.
My question is who or what made the tethered and what allowed them to make them; like did they get DNA or something? Does somebody know, maybe I missed that in the movie
Idk Maybe we dont need answers to everything.
In my head, they are automatically created when you are born, like sort of this hell / other dimension. As they say in the movie : a shadow version of you.
Cedric Mathew Hudson ahh interesting, thanks!
@@deadschooled There is no need to pick on someone if they have a question or opinion on somethign. You calling him that is very disrespectful and unresponcible and I think you should leave this channel and go pick reflect on what you said
They're clones created by the government.
It’s always so hard to not watch these before I see the movie, but this time I did! What great movie! Love the reviews Grace, keep em coming!
The point you missed about the dance was that they finish differently. The tethered version above leaps for the sky and the one below does a move where she caves in. The thing is that the tethered are connected to the ones above so since the real Adelaide was below she never had to mimic her tethered version above and the doppelgänger I guess grew apart or independent above. Where the tethered just mimic without thought, Red was forced to live her life based on how Adelaide lives hers because the families tethered versions would mimic their doppelgängers life. She basically Abraham raped Red because he thoughtlessly would be mimicking the above dad.
I think the son was able to control his tethered version because maybe him and his doppelgänger shared half a soul and were more closely bonded.
I don’t know it’s a lot to think about, but it’s all up to interpretation like Peele said. So really any theories possible.
To answer a couple of points, the scissors was symbolic to represent the 'untethering' - remember the paper was cut towards the end. The reason why the tether broke away because she 'found god', as was explained later in the movie. The other details, I believe you are overthinking it. Great movie imho.
I knew it was Anna Diop when I first saw her. You say "transformative," I say "it's her without her weave." (But I'm not hating. I'm still a fan.)
That was her real hair. ...
I don’t get it ? Please elaborate? Weave?
@@damien1781 TH-cam it
Did you catch that the movie "The Right Stuff" is referenced in both US and Capt.Marvel and both movies twist is based off understanding that the bad guys arent the bad guys you thought they were, hmmmm 🤔
Is Jordan Peel a fan of the Junji Ito horror comics? Because the plot sounds awfully similar to something that would be born from those horror stories.
Kelby Rock I thought that too.
Also there's elements of 'The Double' here (which starred Jesse Eisenberg).