Things I noticed after watching Us for a second time • The girl in the beginning playing rock paper scissors was the same actress from moonrise kingdom, who if you don't know, stabbed Lucas Hedges with a pair of lefty scissors • The noise that Abraham (tethered Gabe) was yelling at on the boat was the tethered white dad. (When he gets on his boat when fighting Gabe he then makes that same noise) • When Red was explaining the story, she says when Umbrae (tethered Zora) and Pluto (tethered Jason) ombre was born laughing (she died laughing) and Pluto was born in fire (he died in fire), it also explains why Adelaide had been upset when the tethered kids died. • Kitty (white mom) on the beach she was clearly jealous of Adelaide's natural beauty, she clearly doesn't always get along with her husband, even joking that she would murder him and even mentioned that she had plastic surgery. When the tethered Kitty showed up, she pointed at her cheekbones and then sliced her cheek and when the tethered white dad was killed, Kitty's doppleganger started laughing. • Looking back at the movie, knowing that the tethered Adelaide was the one we were following, it explains why she was willing to handcuff herself, why the og Adelaide said that the other tethered noticed were "special" ,probably explains why she looked more freaked out than her family, why she was so paranoid bc she knew the real Adelaide was always coming for her. •The tethered were originally supposed to be controlling everyone above ground, but obviously it didn't work out and the opposite happened, except Adelaide & Jason. Both Red & Pluto were able to control their original. And when Adelaide & Red switched, when she was doing ballet, Red was able to control her, so in an weird way, the experiment worked. Also. The Thriller t-shirt is not only a reference to how the music video ended, but how the film itself will end.
• It makes sense why Adelaide in white walked out of the car and was calming down Umbrae who was in the tree, because it was her daughter. • Also explains why she got so emotional when Pluto walked into the fire.
You noticed how tethered Adelaide knew exactly where to go when looking for Jason? Like the original Adelaide didn't know how to get out as a kid. But the tethered Adelaide knew exactly where to go didn't have no trouble. I'm like she knows this place pretty damn well.
Teon Quant also the thriller was the reason for the red jumpsuits. Michael wore a red jacket and red pants. The tethered wore red and also had one glove like MJ. It is also a Easter egg for Freddy kruger. Wearing red with one brown glove. Also Pluto being burned is a Easter egg for Freddy’s burnt skin. Also The wolfman mask if worn by Jason. The movie wolfman is about a man and a werewolf, two souls sharing one body. Jason wears the wolf mask so is the monster and Pluto wears the more human mask so is he the good soul. Red also call adelaides kids monsters because Adelaide is tethered and she birthed the kids where red is human and she gave birth to the real children meaning it’s the woman who ultimately carries and nurtures the fetus before it is born.
Here’s exploring some concepts: Firstly, Tethers aren’t creatures. They’re human beings bound in one soul, and without any alternate stimulus, they followed the general movements and actions. The Tethered don’t have to do exactly what the above ground versions of themselves do, BUT, they are highly prone to doing so and hadn’t known that they could defy that duality until they had an external stimulus outside of the lab. The fateful encounter between the two girls in the maze of mirrors occurs because the Adelaide above wanders the perfect direction to find the exit and meet each other. When presented with an opportunity to directly defy duality, that is when things are officially untethered between them. Red followed through with other Tethers because other tethers feel a stronger urge to follow their double, therefore she had to in order to maintain a certain degree of balance within that society. Once the other tethers are confronted with their normal versions, they are able to act further outside of their duality...all except Jason and Pluto. Pluto exclusively follows the actions of his controller only when Jason puts the mask on. It’s strongly implied that Jason is autistic throughout the story, so it’s possible that Pluto was born with a similar defect that denies him the ability to stop mimicking his other when the mask is worn. When Adelaide switches places with Red, it was a literal representation of what Tethers actually are. Red, IS a tether, she’s not a human being who was trapped in the tunnel, she was a tether due to her circumstances. All of the Tethers are monsters due to their circumstances, not because they were directly made that way. Adelaide became a relatively normal human with some lasting circumstances due to trauma, but otherwise lived normally. That’s because Tethers aren’t an other, they’re us. You and I. There is no difference physically between the two, only what they’ve experienced up to that point and how it has affected them. At the end of the story, the Adelaide that survives is the real Adelaide, because that’s the one that the world has experienced and come to grips with. Red, is the monster, the other who imposed her murderous will onto the characters. Adelaide, despite being born a tether, was the human being. This is further expressed when Adelaide shows sympathy towards hero alter’s children. This is because Adelaide fully understands that they can be rehabilitated and made to be their being just by being pulled out of that situation. The adult tethers are far too gone to be saved, but Adelaide still held onto that hope when it came to the children. In the end, the story about someone’s circumstances making them the monster, not that the monster makes their circumstances. Red was a human being forced into what Adelaide would’ve experience, and roughly became the same thing as the other Tethered. She was a tethered because of her actions, not her physical being.
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If Spill never ended, they'd be the biggest movie review site on TH-cam by FAR. Their critical analysis was just as good as the best film pundits on TH-cam today, but their humor was off the charts, especially with the animated sections. It's such a shame they were shutdown. I'd love for Korey to do more animation. Although, Robert Cargill may not have ever gotten the Doctor Strange gig if Spill kept going :(
The tethered got the jumpsuits from the government experiment. There's one line where Red says "you got birthday presents, we got cold, sharp objects" That might explain the scissors
GingerLily 2019 they also represent duality and two sides. Just like 11 or 11:11 and even twins like the other families daughter. Adelaide goes to the beach and her friends bring the two twins. Another vision of 11 for her.
And I got 5 on it, means ill pay half, someone else pays other half. I can't believe some ppl who didn't know why that was turned into the theme and score riff
Also notice how those clones in the tunnels were walking around acting like crackheads down there. And the crack epidemic exploded in the 80's. I think that's an interesting parallel.
Jason's doppelganger was fascinated with Jason and wanted them to sync up. That's the whole scene with the two in the pantry. The tethered represent our darker side and once Jason embraces it, he's able to control it and kill it.
That's because Jason's a hybrid tethered that got switched before his introduction in the movie. Many clues gave it away, such as: people pointing out he was acting weird, at a time didn't speak, and he was off beat. Tethered Adel's real Jason's face and throat got burned, so he wasn't able to speak. Unfortunately, for tethered Adel, she had to watch her Jason walk into the fire. Watch as Adel and her Jason had a moment where you notice he wouldn't hurt her, nor she him, but the tethered hybrid Jason didn't want his life destroyed, so he had his hybrid kill himself. In the end inside the ambulance, Jason cannot speak because he is the same as Adel; originally from the tethered place. It also explains why the supposed tethered Jason was looking physically stronger than the other tethered. What was messed up was the daughter being able to run fast, but her doppelganger was able to keep up with her. (Retcon maybe.)
@@tellmesomething2412 This is easily disproved and you missed the point as in Jason is like Danny from the Shinning in his weirdness. It's a deliberate misdirection to get away from Adelaides behavior So to debunk Born out of Fire, the Tethereds name is Pluto, Pluto is also known as Hades which both are Gods of the underworld also Pluto is the known to be benevolent as he reigns over harvest and prosperity (your went way off with the planet thing) Second the time line, 1 year. Your theory has holes because you are saying Red would teach ONLY Jason which is illogical, as no tethered speaks, secondly both would exhibit extreme behaviors especially since one lost his grandparent but was in this hell the other was normal brought down, so they wouldn't contrast they would both be fucked up. And on that we see that the parents if nothing else are attentive, Adelaide as a child overheard her parents talking with the therapist, the parents dialogue is a double entendre, but it's meant to let us know they realize that's NOT their daughter even the fathers uneasy reaction as he rubs her head Next the idea that hes digging is weird is to confuse the audience and show your own bias. Him digging nor his behavior is weird. His is merely reserved and pays attention, but nothing else about him is off, 2 stuck up white kids saying hes weird why do you assume their assessment is correct. Even the father saying where did you pick up that language, is more a deflection away from him likely swearing Next its confirmed 100% in the film, the tethered cant control the above the experimental failed which is why they were abandoned. Further he gives us tons of visual ques that the above control the below, start with Reds dialogue where she clearly says you open nice gifts, ours sharpe, you eat nice foods we eat rabbit, the dance Red who is an excellent dancer, learned ballet, we saw Adelaide below have awkward jerky movements same as when they fought, one was graceful in her movements the other clumsy. Third there is a long definitive montage as young Red walks through the park with her parent and young Adelaide below with hers, everything is copied in twisted ways below, that Automatically breaks any theory with Jason But further to clarify what Jason is, and the other 3 children are all HALF. One above and below parent for each. So each is more connected one can easily assume. That's why Jason and Pluto are as different as they would seem. But what we really get from Jason and his behavior is the misdirection from Adelaide. We are told who Adelaide is from the beginning, we are told even more si throughout, her speech patterns when she gets freaked out talking to her husband is odd, when they eat dinner, she eats like a rabbit, we can assume shes a vegan but no is paying attention to her eating strawberries and only fruits and vegetables. At the beach she doesnt talk shes awkward socializing, she never drinks she only consumes water, everyone focuses on Jason but hes only following his mother in the car, she is supposed to be a dancer (as she hinted at one time she was great), but she has absolutely no rythem. By the time their friends die, Jason is the used to let us know something is wrong with his mother as her Tethered nature surfaces more and more. So without Jason there is no way you WOULDNT realize that Adelaide isnt who she says she is. That's Jason's real purpose, hes the vehicle by which we the audience observe and get distracted By the end, Jason's look in the ambulance is one of, I know my mother is one of them, in fact hes the only one suspicious of her behavior. Meanwhile Jason can control his tethered because hes figured it out, (his quiet and observant behavior allows him to be the only one paying attention) So we can forever put this one to bed, I'm not sure how anyone missed those ques to imply Jason but this one isn't close. Besides the MOST important part of all of this, no one has explained why EITHER would logically be switched. Both are old enough to be aware, so why would either child form these bonds under these conditions? Your're saying that either parent/mother would willing give up their child which isnt a theme in this movie, that the children wouldn't notice or react, and that somehow this would benefit either mother in a plan. That's why this doesnt fit as a twist, is bares no weight on the story telling at all. Who would it help
@@oluave2211 And, after I've looked into homie @SingingChef I saw some inconsistencies, but I get his opinion as well. I just don't want to continue. However, in the words of J.P., "I left room for an open interpretation."
It seems like a lot of people are confused about what the Tethered are. The Tethered, from how I understand it, aren’t clones. They are doppelgängers that exist as human beings. Even Red states that “we are human”. Jason can’t be a hybrid because that implies that Adelaide is nonhuman, rather than one of a pair of humans that look the same and share the same soul. The connection between the Tethered individuals is more spiritual than literal, hence the inconsistency. You can say that the Tethered that live underground can see a window into the other person’s experiences without fully experiencing it themselves. At least that’s how I saw it.
I got the same take! The tethered were both physically and psychologically connected. Hence why Adelaide says they know where we are. For generations they mimicked the aboveground. The dance between the two breaks the physical connection.
You can see Adelaide is the actual clone because you remember when she went to find Jason at the end she knew exactly where to go. Unlike human child Adelaide was lost in that mirror house.
Scissor= cutting their tether, object that is the same on both sides and a weapon Glove= MJ homage with the one glove, from her Thriller shirt that was taken
Also the ending was an illusion to thriller. The same look lupita gives to the camera at then end "knowing" she is the tethered one as Michael does to the camera at the end of thriller. Plus with the shirt she won makes this waaaay more than a coincidence.
A great film overall. I loved all the hidden Easter eggs the director uses to further develop the plot. I don’t expect everything that he does to be “Get Out”, but it won’t keep his future works from being entertaining.
Clues that told me Jason was a clone the whole time. I hope you all go back and watch the movie again after you read these clues. Clue 1. The family kept speaking on how different Jason has been acting since his grandmother passed away a year ago (there was a fire at that time), which made me believe in the second viewing that he was switched a year ago. Clue 2. Jason had a new vocabulary of bad words that the family was confused about. His sister even asked him where he was learning those words from. I'm guessing he learned a few words from the real Adaline (remember, she's the only one who can speak underground). Also, I'm guessing before the switching, Jason was learning how to speak from the real Adelaide (red) since he's been living with red for a while till he was around 9. Now some of you may say "but the boy's voice wasn't strained like red. That's because he wasn't choked like his mother red. Red had a choked voice because of her being choked as a child by the clone. Clue 3. In the car, when the music came on, Jason couldn't get with the rhythm and didn't even know how to snap his fingers. Instead, he was snapping his fingers backwards. Although Adelaide couldn't get on beat either. Clue 4. Jason was making sand tunnels. He's been living in those tunnels for a while before the switching. Clue 5. Jason drew a third person picture of himself from behind looking at the homeless man. Most people who notices something that they want to draw will usually draw what they see, not a picture of themselves looking at what they're seeing(third-person point of view). Clue 6. During the invasion, Gabe tells Jason to go get his bat. If you paid attention, Gabe said it as if Jason was supposed to know the location of the bat, but Jason replies "WHAT BAT?", as if he hasn't been in this house multiple times, but the sister knew exactly where it was and found it. Clue 7. Jason kept trying to do the magic trick and couldn't do it. He mentions that he used to do the magic but couldn't remember how to do it anymore. Meanwhile, underground, Pluto would practice with the matches and would burn his face over and over again. Every time Jason fails the magic trick on ground, Pluto, underground, would do it with matches and burn his face over and over again. Clue 8. Pluto never killed anybody. Red (the real Adelaide) allowed Pluto and Jason to go and play (I need you all to think). Now, this is when Lupita knew that Jason was switched. Clue 9. (Remember CLUE 3) When the family stopped in front of their burning car, they saw Pluto standing out in front of the burning car. Adelaide gets out of the car to go and kill him. When she walked up to Pluto, the boy started snapping his fingers correctly, which let her know that he was her real son. That's why when Pluto started backing into the fire (because of Jason) Adelaide started reaching out trying to save him, telling him to not go in the fire and that's when she became sad because that was her real son. Then at this moment, that's when Red (real Adelaide) takes Jason, her real son, down to the bottom in the tunnels. I'm guessing at this point, red told Jason that she was his real mother and decided to hide him in the locker so she can finish off the fake Adelaide. That's why Jason was uncomfortable around Adelaide when she took him from the locker and probably explains the reason why he had a strange stare at her in the hospital truck. Although she was looking back at Jason with a slight smile as if she was mentally telling him "I guess we both have a secret that the other two know nothing about"
Im not sure becuz why would the real Jason not be able to talk and why walk on all fours? You said he got switched a year ago. That doesnt mean he wouldnt know how to speak or act all animalistic.
Also, how would the clone Jason even know about the magic trick? You could say becuz they are tethered but then that busts your whole "why doesn't he know where the bat it?" theory.
CommunityServesUs real Jason can’t talk because he burned his face. He acts animalistic because he has a love for animals which explains the reason why he hops around like a bunny(the bunny rabbits in the movie). But let’s go back to that question, because that pretty much exposes a lot of things we can speak on that doesn’t make sense with this movie. Adelaide gets switched but she still had the chance to escape, think about it. All these years she planned for the revolution...and somehow manages to find her way out to get back to the beach house? That means she knew where those stairs were. Although that brings up more questions. How big is this place underground? How many tunnels are there for thousands, maybe millions of clones to live in. There has to be multiple door ways to escape, they all couldn’t just have come from hat same spooky house. And if there’s multiple door ways we could guess that maybe there was another hidden door in the woods where the beach house is. I’m guessing that’s how Jason got switched during the burning last year. And with Adelaide as a child, she could’ve ran back out to find her parents. Those clones weren’t gonna do anything ‘cause they were too busy mimicking the above. Now about the magic trick. This is were you have to pay attention. In the closet, Pluto (real Jason) was actually teaching Jason how to do the magic trick. Which Jason should’ve know because based on how connected he was to the toy (never leaving it behind) he should’ve known how to do the magic trick. With the sister’s clone, it made sense. Remember, whatever your hobby is the clone will take a toll on it even if you stop doing whatever your hobby is. That’s why the clone was able be a faster runner than Zora. Zora gave up on running track while the clone kept running. We saw this with Red and Adelaide when it came to ballerina. But with Jason, that doesn’t make sense to me because the connection between him and the toy are extremely close to the point where the toy was something he would never leave behind to forget about. And now all of a sudden he forgets how to do the magic trick with the toy. That makes no sense. As far as the bat? That theory still exists. We would think he’s been to the house multiple times to know where the bat is but now he doesn’t? Gabe: Jason hasn’t been the same since he last came here with his grandmother. Red: Be careful, we don’t want to burn the house down. (Red laughs) Burning house, grandmother, multiple secret doorways. Those are all strong clues. But I think you and I can agree that Get Out is better constructed movie than US. There are still things in this movie that doesn’t make sense but that’s what happens when a studio rushes Jordan write his next film. Also, I want to say that I have a theory that US is possibly a prequel to Get Out.
I’m calling it now... *shared universe.* The knights of the Templar are involved. Remember their hunting song, “Run rabbit, run rabbit, run run run” 🤷🏾♂️
My boyfriend pointed out something interesting regarding how the little girl made it to aboveground. When the Original Adelaide was walking down to the pier and beach, the underground tethered needed to stay put for a period of time in order to stay on the escalator. OG Adelaide stayed put looking out at the beach so that was most likely when her tethered was going up the escalator and met with her. 2. I think the little girl was able to communicate with the entire country of the tethered because aboveground, Adelaide was traveling and living her life. If they follow their counterpart she had have made it to the east coast at SOME point in 20+ years. in the beginning of the movie, it mentioned all of the underground tunnels nationwide so that could make sense.
15:08 they kind of did that when the Kitty Teller characters clone put on make up. That can be seen as "I always simulated make up on myself for years and now I get to actually do it."
I actually think a lot of the film makes sense, more then you guys give it credit of You just have to really think about it, which is why I loved it. Any I think the point of the hands at the end just showed that she didn't have a plan after killing her teeter She wanted revenge but didn't know what she wanted next
I’m glad y’all didn’t believe in the son being a tether. 👌🏾 That was the one theory I was waiting on you to discuss. All the kids being hybrids was more interesting.
This is one film you gotta watch more than once to understand most of the movie. Some of the things they don't explain well like "get out". The twist I didn't like too much.
They wore similar clothes to the people above- however when they decided to rebel, it looked like they received identical uniforms (when red explained organizing the rebellion to adelaide a flashback showed them placing their uniforms on their beds)
I just figured out that the red was able to go upstairs because her above ground version went in the funhouse.she was mimicking Addy's need to escape from her parents above ground.If anybody had gone in the funhouse who's clone was in there they would meet their self too.
I don't think that Jason was a Tether at the end. He gives his mom that untrustworthy look because he knew she was a Tether afterall and she gives him that creepy smile.
I honestly liked “Us” way more than “Get Out” and feel like I’m in the minority on this. “Us” had plot holes of course but so did “Get Out” that whole convenient crawl space with all the pictures of past victims that Chris just happens to find ruins the movie for me at times. Honestly feel like “Get Out” is more praised just because of the racial metaphors. To compare the two isn’t fair as they’re two completely different movies. “Us” is a more standard horror movie and does exactly what it tries to do all while looking visually amazing and telling an intriguing story. Either way Jordan Peele is doing the damn thing and is revitalizing the horror genre
Peel explains the opening of the door in the audio commentary of the movie. He still wouldn't be able to leave though, even if he didn't find the pictures.
lurkzie Convenient or not it still doesn’t make sense, and just poor writing on Peele’s part, like Rose was in on the process the whole time and through out the entire movie acted like she wasn’t until she just said “ahh fuck it” and let Chris find the photos, just because? Wouldn’t it have been easier to just not let him find it and leave him in the dark? Did she do the same thing with her other victims? Why tf does she just leave that evidence in a box in the first place? I felt like if that was left out entirely and you just find out that Rose is evil just through the whole “Give me the keys” scene it would have been a lot more satisfying
@@Chris_MKII I personally found the photos effective because it establishes that chris is just another victim of her manipulation process. because previously our only indication of their abduction method was her brother physically wrangling victims. The fact that we find this out just as he does makes the reveal even more potent because it allows us to put ourselves in his shoes. As i said before she is a psychopath so at that point she really has no reason to care or not if he finds the photos and just wants to get him in the right place for her mom and brother to corner him before she drops her cute act. This really got to me cos when he found the photos i was shocked to find that she was part of it but the way she continued to act so natural really had me confused because she was so convincing as an innocent outsider who was oblivious to what was going on and as an audience member you want to trust that she is good because up until the photo reveal you have no reason to suspect she isnt.
I think they only mimic the movements that require the use of a soul aka when they create art, dance, fall in love... when one half of the Tethered participates in something that’s very ‘human’ they have to share that and they mimic that. Example, the dancing scene / Jason and Pluto both loving fire
I will say this... Even though you can't compare US and GET OUT 'cause they're two different films, I will say that GET OUT is a better-constructed movie than US.
Remember that Addy was a little girl. She also probably went insane. The tethered don’t really have free will. So her mind functioned like a child’s would. Children don’t have the ability to dissect information the way adults do. I think the original Addy told Jason the truth.
There's a line of dialogue, She said that the scientist, gave up everything eventually. The scientist were proving necessities for the tethered until the 80's
So who was providing their necessities after the '80s? How were the rabbits being fed? How did Adelaide's Tethered become "untethered" and go replace the original? Why were the Tethered only copying people when it was convenient for the script to happen? Why would Tethered Adelaide attack the mechanical owl so furiously near the end when that was something the original Adelaide experienced when they were "probably untethered"? Where the hell did Red get a ballerina's outfit when her Tethered was off performing that routine? Did the Tethered sew their own jumpsuits? The movie's really well made but it doesn't stand up to scrutiny, and it's not allegorical enough for the lack of logic to be excusable.
@@MetaMetro3 peele went exaggerated sci fi realistic but he should have gone supernatural. But if magic or something like that was involved there would be slightly less plot holes
I think the red jumpsuits are from her other shirt.. when her clone takes the thriller shirt , you can see the original girl has on the hand across America shirt with all the figures are red . The clone has on a blank shirt. I think the hands across America is her inspiration, given the fact that it was the feather mission to do
Did anyone else notice that in the home invasion, Adelaide tells Zora to put her shoes on and no one else. Later on Red sends Zora’s tether to chase her.
Why did it take so long for the original Adelaide to escape the underground. Like it didn't look like it was hard to escape at all. And I find it crazy that human Adelaide was started the whole move to kill the humans when she's human herself and wants revenge against the clone Adelaide for taking her life. So it's crazy she would influence the clones to do the same thing her clone did to her. I know they said something about privileged and slaved.
Here’s some questions that I have: 1. If the tethered are forced to mirror the movements of the original then how did they even come above to the surface to kill their originals? That’s not a mirrored movement. They’re actively deciding for themselves to kill people. 2. If the tethered are the ones forced to mirror the original then why is the original Adelaide being forced to mirror the movements of the clone? 3. Why didn’t the original Adelaide just leave since she knew where the exit was? 4. How did the original Adelaide even know anything about the experiments since nobody down there could talk and, presumably, there was no facility that talked about the origins of the experiment? 5. The original Adelaide calls the day that they’re going to kill their originals “The Untethering,” but if they are already on the surface and can make their own choices then aren’t they already untethered? Why does anybody have to die? 6. Why did they wait so long to do the “Untethering”? Couldn’t they have done it much earlier? 7. If the whole experiment was a government operation then shouldn’t the U.S. government know exactly what is going on and know how to stop it? Was it a shadow organization? Wouldn’t they keep tabs on the operation to ensure that the clones couldn’t escape? Or just kill them all if they deemed it a failed experiment? 8. How did Jason make his clone mirror his movements? Nobody else has that ability, and if they did have that ability, then once again the tethered shouldn’t even be on the surface to kill anybody anyway. It can’t be because he’s a hybrid since Zora doesn’t show any ability to do that. It can’t be because of concentration since nobody even knew the tethered existed before the events of the film and they were still forced to mirror the actions of the originals. 9. How do they get any supplies down there? 10. How does the reproductive process work with the tethered? It’s one thing if the clones were deliberately created, but if you’re telling me that the tethered population is sustained through mirrored child births then that doesn’t make any sense. These are all of the big questions that I have after seeing this twice. It’s a good movie in terms of the craft, but once you start thinking about the plot, it all starts to break down.
I actually understood the premise from trailer (it telegraphed clearly where it was heading with the nature of the Tethered) while the twist reveal was given within the first 5 minutes of the film (one of the aspects of the film I greatly praise and do believe Peele is talented as a writer) through the attentive details given with the shirt and ultimately what the scene relates to. I still believe it is a very ambitious and commendably crafted horror thriller with very heady themes and conflicts that relate to duality of human nature and the disparage of those civilized and forgotten in a very genre-esque way. However, it doesn't quite land smoothly with its end point in providing the goal of the Tethered and how that character "twist" literally raises more questions about their nature and how they were able to recreate and reproduce exact copies throughout the film as well as the point of their conflict. That I believe lies at the heart of the criticism for the film's finale, for a writer to have such logical and precise writing in his first 2 acts, for it to kind of go over the top and fall into those overblown trappings of the horror genre in the climax, kind of was a letdown and feels a bit disconnected from the majority of the film. This is still better than most horror films on the market right now and I would be glad to see it again but I feel with another pass at the 3rd act, it could have been another classic or satisfying film overall like Get Out was.
I think y’all missed something - the Tethered were devoid of a soul, and that had something to do with the attempted control of the surface world. The sci-fi only went so far - the logic of the Tethered was more like a fairytale.
Cool discussion and dialogue about US. This movie is stuck in my head. I absolutely loved it (And definitely want to see it again)... And for some reason I just can't get that DT Merch off of my mind.
That part about the sexy sax man from The Lost Boys had me laughing hard. You guys are my favorite for movie reviews. I say that being a viewer of every one out there who is popular. But not only are you honest about films but you make me crack up every day. Every video I click on is always a real treat. You guys are the best.
I think the movie is ambitious but it really doesn't hit the mark if you don't suspend enough disbelief to let certain glaring plotholes go over. Great ideas, great metaphors to the human condition but the writing missteps are played off as ambiguity and once questioned, opens up even more inconsistencies. Not a "must-see" but a much appreciated approach to filmmaking.
I think the Hands Across America was for the shadows, not the originals. Some of the shadows underground probably rebelled against the idea of killing the originals and taking over the surface. The shadows that joined hands could've symbolized an alliance for their rebellion.
One more thing that is unexplained: If Red wanted to take her place back in the world and be with her 'real family', why didn't she come alone? She obviously didn't want to hurt the two kids. Why she wanted to hurt Gabe is still vague. But that's still a mystety for me.
Been waiting on this. 70 million the 1st weekend I’m going again today. Can’t stop thinking about this film. Just need to hear the exposition again. But the movie is brilliant. I don’t have as many questions as others just how was red and (fake Lupita) able to still dance and mirror each other if they switched out? Or does it not matter since they’re already cloned?
I think the idea is that there really isn't a difference between the people above and the people below, no biological difference at least. The only reason why the people above are in control is because of their circumstances, they haven't been driven mad by being trapped in an underground tunnel system their entire lives. I think the tether goes both ways, because honestly how many times have you done something that made no sense to yourself? And concerning the dancing scene, the dance they perform is a duet, and they each perform half of it.
I think her motivation wasn't to spread awareness to the people they were killing, but to the government for abandoning them (a metaphor for those today who feel like the government is abandoning them). I guess they wanted the government to see them line up and go "Oh shit...those guys...whoops."
I have a lot of questions about this film too, but it's really interesting to hear you guys go back and forth about it. I could watch an hour of this. Also on the TV in the 1st scene is the World Trade Center (11) Twin Towers.
Pluto’s mouth was burned shut. Look at it again, also he was building sand tunnels. Who builds tunnels at a beach. Usually it’s castles animals hell even mounds.
As soon as Adelaide's mother said, "I just want my little girl back," that combined with the "she won't talk" bit made the twist obvious to me. I kind of wish they would've obscured her mother's words a bit or cut her dialogue shorter earlier in the movie, because that would've made it less blatant. Then again, I watch a ton of horror movies, so I think I'm always ready for switches like that.
My biggest question about this film is why were there no police, military or law enforcement? Why did no one have a gun? You’re telling me clones with scissors overran the LAPD, and the National Guard?
Realistically, those groups would protect their families and I believe the doppelgängers planned to take out the police first which is why they said wait 15 minutes and then never came, they died. edit: spelling
V I still makes no sense. Also the real Adelaide said she had to cut her son out of her. How did she perform a C-Section on herself with scissors and survive?
Just putting this out there, Jason can be a tethered. The scene where hes walking in the fire can actually be Pluto controlling Jason. Pluto is sacrificing himself to what he loves so that Jason can get kidnapped. "Red" was waiting for Jason to back up so she could snatch him and run, Pluto revealed his face to Adelaide to show that he was the real one and that's why she got so emotional to him walking into the fire. He was her real kid.
I really found that last shot, combined with that high note in the song the most haunting thing in the movie. I mean the fact that all those Tethers took out most of Santa Cruz was one thing, but learning right at the last minute that this has been going on throughout the whole COUNTRY?! And at the same time no less?! THAT’S TERRIFYING! And the thought of trying to figure out what would happen when the family reaches their next destination makes the thought even more frightening even with the extra questions that that last shot brings with it.
Consider this DT,maybe the Jason we were following was the tethered. Remember, Jason had been acting strange for a year, following the death of the grandmother. He couldn't figure out the magic trick,even though he had done it before. He was also locked in the closet for a while before he was found by his family. I think u can control the other once someone has taken full control of the wheel(so to speak). Also remember we see a glimpse of this bc Adelaide learned how to dance FROM Red while she was underground even though she was born above ground. This explains how Jason was able to control Pluto and walk him into the fire. Also it would explain why Jason wasnt really scared of his tethered
Us reminded me of something Junji ito (manga horror writer/artist) would do. If you think about it, it makes no real sense. but its so weird and unsettling. That you can’t stop wondering about it.
To the clothing argument. Someone above ground had to make the clothes so the tethered below made close and someone above ground sold clothes so someone underground "sold clothes" of course with the movie like this you have to take some suspension of disbelief just like Spider-Man into the spider verse makes no sense when you really think about it, its just a good story.
I thought it was interesting that Adelaide seemed concerned when the Tether versions of her children were dying more so than her own children at that time. Here it was because she was the Tether herself. Plus her parents thought she had PTSD since she wasn't talking. It was because the Tether didn't know how.
If Jason was a hybrid and that's why he could control Pluto... wouldn't that make Zora a hybrid too? Then how come she couldn't control Umbrea? Like at all? Zora's older than Jason but not by much. Honestly the movie had a lot of really cool and interesting ideas that would've been really great if fleshed out in a series like a Netflix or something like that, but instead we had more questions than answers. But I guess the movie wasn't about all that minutia and just about the weirdness.
18:54, to be fair, I really was that bitch when I was a kid, like the second my parents told me not to do something, I turned around and did it, even though I knew once my mama found out I'd be paying for that shit with my life
The tethered showed more unity and oneness than the actual humans. In the 80s, hands across America had gaps, but in the movie the tethered were definitely solid. It’s like the one thing that gave them purpose
This movie's biggest flaw was actually showing the twist instead of leaving it to our imaginations. Imagine if Childs started transforming at the end of The Thing. Sn: I’m not bashing the movie, I actually liked it a lot.
But then that would distract the audience from the message of the film. He didn't want us to get stuck thinking about that. He told us the twist, because he wanted to show if you give the lower class the same opportunities of the privileged, without anyone knowing that person is of lower class...they can still thrive and flourish.
The point is that you can’t say for sure Child’s is not the thing. There is absolutely no evidence that points that he is not, but we can assume from minor details that he is.
We could assume the mother from Us is the Original tethered by her Mannerisms... spelling it out lessened the mystery and cleared doubt. There were multiple themes in this movies, privilege, duality & consciousness being a few. The themes were realized well before the revelation & it does not take exposition to make us aware well after the fact. Other than that imo it was a great film with a good message.
I think many of these things are explained by Red leading them. There is rarely something special about Lupita's character and her tethered. This whynshenwas able to find her way out the tunnel. Once switched, shenwas able teach the tethered to break their bond and organize. We have to remember that the events we see in the movie are 30 years in the making
I hit that subscribe button immediately at the moment when you were giving hilarious commentary about "C.H.U.D". This literally reminds me of hanging out with friends and joking around and enjoying laughs together. Good Stuff!
One thing I missed because I couldn’t understand /hear what Red said to Adelaide. Did she say (tehered )adelaide telepathically lured the real adelaide to the house of mirrors and ultimately switched places with her?
Having 14 theories and one being right does not count as calling it. That's like calling a shot in pool by saying "it's going to hit one of these nine balls and maybe make it into the left pocket or the top right or this one right here."
They didn't go to that beach the year before--Adelaide hadn't been back since the incident in her childhood, and she tried not to go this time but Gabe pushed her into it.
The scissors also tie in with the rabbit imagery. The way they are held, the scissors appear to be rabbit ears. They also mirror the images from some of the movie posters.
You guys are right at the end of the movie Jason does figure out that his mother is a tethered and he pulls the mass down as sort of a shield to protect him but it's his mother so why would he even be scared it's the same mother he's always going up with his whole life and she's loved him this whole time so there's nothing really for him to worry about hopefully.
I understand that you all weren't a fan of the Hands Across America thing but you have to understand that Red had been trapped underground with no education or guidance since a very young age. One of the last things she saw on TV was the Hands Across America commercial and she saw it as a way to put an exclamation point on her revolution. She just didn't know any better
Sexy sax man was the shit! Lol. He popped up everywhere in the 80s. I cracked up every time he popped up, randomly out of nowhere in a movie scene.lmao
It's crazy how the city of Santa Cruz did not want their name in The Lost Boys movie but they allowed their name in this movie. That's why it was called Santa Clara in The Lost Boys instead of taking up the name Santa Cruz. The city was scared that it was going to scare tourism by having people believe that the place had real life vampires when now people are going to believe that the place has tethered doppelgangers.
The Tethered version of Lupita Inyongo only got to leave because Lupita just happened to take all the right steps and turns to get her Tethered up the escalator and in front of her. It was completely by chance that her Tethered mimicked her by walking in the direction she did. And to the point about the Tethered’s lack of jumpsuits, scissors, etc. I saw it as a Sci-Fi movie with supernatural elements; the soul, free will, etc. So I just assumed in the experiment the scientists just tapped into a supernatural force that created doubles of people that are born, every day clothes must pop out of that same dimension for the Tethered to wear.
Person playing with ouija board: “Are there any spirits here with us?!”
Ghost: “I got five on it!”
😂🤣
Oh hell nah hahahahaha. I gotta dip after that.
This is one of my favorite TH-cam comments now.
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Things I noticed after watching Us for a second time
• The girl in the beginning playing rock paper scissors was the same actress from moonrise kingdom, who if you don't know, stabbed Lucas Hedges with a pair of lefty scissors
• The noise that Abraham (tethered Gabe) was yelling at on the boat was the tethered white dad. (When he gets on his boat when fighting Gabe he then makes that same noise)
• When Red was explaining the story, she says when Umbrae (tethered Zora) and Pluto (tethered Jason) ombre was born laughing (she died laughing) and Pluto was born in fire (he died in fire), it also explains why Adelaide had been upset when the tethered kids died.
• Kitty (white mom) on the beach she was clearly jealous of Adelaide's natural beauty, she clearly doesn't always get along with her husband, even joking that she would murder him and even mentioned that she had plastic surgery. When the tethered Kitty showed up, she pointed at her cheekbones and then sliced her cheek and when the tethered white dad was killed, Kitty's doppleganger started laughing.
• Looking back at the movie, knowing that the tethered Adelaide was the one we were following, it explains why she was willing to handcuff herself, why the og Adelaide said that the other tethered noticed were "special" ,probably explains why she looked more freaked out than her family, why she was so paranoid bc she knew the real Adelaide was always coming for her.
•The tethered were originally supposed to be controlling everyone above ground, but obviously it didn't work out and the opposite happened, except Adelaide & Jason. Both Red & Pluto were able to control their original. And when Adelaide & Red switched, when she was doing ballet, Red was able to control her, so in an weird way, the experiment worked.
Also. The Thriller t-shirt is not only a reference to how the music video ended, but how the film itself will end.
• It makes sense why Adelaide in white walked out of the car and was calming down Umbrae who was in the tree, because it was her daughter.
• Also explains why she got so emotional when Pluto walked into the fire.
You noticed how tethered Adelaide knew exactly where to go when looking for Jason? Like the original Adelaide didn't know how to get out as a kid. But the tethered Adelaide knew exactly where to go didn't have no trouble. I'm like she knows this place pretty damn well.
Teon Quant also the thriller was the reason for the red jumpsuits. Michael wore a red jacket and red pants. The tethered wore red and also had one glove like MJ. It is also a Easter egg for Freddy kruger. Wearing red with one brown glove. Also Pluto being burned is a Easter egg for Freddy’s burnt skin. Also The wolfman mask if worn by Jason. The movie wolfman is about a man and a werewolf, two souls sharing one body. Jason wears the wolf mask so is the monster and Pluto wears the more human mask so is he the good soul. Red also call adelaides kids monsters because Adelaide is tethered and she birthed the kids where red is human and she gave birth to the real children meaning it’s the woman who ultimately carries and nurtures the fetus before it is born.
Great convo. I love this movie.
Here’s exploring some concepts:
Firstly, Tethers aren’t creatures. They’re human beings bound in one soul, and without any alternate stimulus, they followed the general movements and actions.
The Tethered don’t have to do exactly what the above ground versions of themselves do, BUT, they are highly prone to doing so and hadn’t known that they could defy that duality until they had an external stimulus outside of the lab.
The fateful encounter between the two girls in the maze of mirrors occurs because the Adelaide above wanders the perfect direction to find the exit and meet each other. When presented with an opportunity to directly defy duality, that is when things are officially untethered between them.
Red followed through with other Tethers because other tethers feel a stronger urge to follow their double, therefore she had to in order to maintain a certain degree of balance within that society.
Once the other tethers are confronted with their normal versions, they are able to act further outside of their duality...all except Jason and Pluto. Pluto exclusively follows the actions of his controller only when Jason puts the mask on. It’s strongly implied that Jason is autistic throughout the story, so it’s possible that Pluto was born with a similar defect that denies him the ability to stop mimicking his other when the mask is worn.
When Adelaide switches places with Red, it was a literal representation of what Tethers actually are. Red, IS a tether, she’s not a human being who was trapped in the tunnel, she was a tether due to her circumstances. All of the Tethers are monsters due to their circumstances, not because they were directly made that way. Adelaide became a relatively normal human with some lasting circumstances due to trauma, but otherwise lived normally. That’s because Tethers aren’t an other, they’re us. You and I. There is no difference physically between the two, only what they’ve experienced up to that point and how it has affected them.
At the end of the story, the Adelaide that survives is the real Adelaide, because that’s the one that the world has experienced and come to grips with. Red, is the monster, the other who imposed her murderous will onto the characters. Adelaide, despite being born a tether, was the human being.
This is further expressed when Adelaide shows sympathy towards hero alter’s children. This is because Adelaide fully understands that they can be rehabilitated and made to be their being just by being pulled out of that situation. The adult tethers are far too gone to be saved, but Adelaide still held onto that hope when it came to the children.
In the end, the story about someone’s circumstances making them the monster, not that the monster makes their circumstances. Red was a human being forced into what Adelaide would’ve experience, and roughly became the same thing as the other Tethered. She was a tethered because of her actions, not her physical being.
Really well said.
The original herself calls out this idea with the line "why didn't you take me with you"
That really makes sense with hand across america for homeless
Ik it’s said all the time but this channel really does deserve more subscribers. This channel is very entertaining and I am glad to see it keep going strong. Stay toasty people.
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If Spill never ended, they'd be the biggest movie review site on TH-cam by FAR. Their critical analysis was just as good as the best film pundits on TH-cam today, but their humor was off the charts, especially with the animated sections. It's such a shame they were shutdown. I'd love for Korey to do more animation.
Although, Robert Cargill may not have ever gotten the Doctor Strange gig if Spill kept going :(
Yeah, it's entertaining, but they talk a whole lot of sheet! 😂
@@JMoviesMedia that's what makes it better lol
The tethered got the jumpsuits from the government experiment. There's one line where Red says "you got birthday presents, we got cold, sharp objects" That might explain the scissors
Why dafuk would they all be given scissors!? Peele needs to release a prequel graphic novel or something lol
Maybe open the rabbits to eat them?
Notice that the scissors are designed as two heads back to back
GingerLily 2019 they also represent duality and two sides. Just like 11 or 11:11 and even twins like the other families daughter. Adelaide goes to the beach and her friends bring the two twins. Another vision of 11 for her.
@@jihadsmith762 Great observation.... I kept thinking to myself what are the significance of the scissors?✂️
And those in the movie look a bit like a goat's head. "As above so below."
and also bunny ears
And I got 5 on it, means ill pay half, someone else pays other half. I can't believe some ppl who didn't know why that was turned into the theme and score riff
Also notice how those clones in the tunnels were walking around acting like crackheads down there. And the crack epidemic exploded in the 80's. I think that's an interesting parallel.
Wow
Hmmm interesting
Jason's doppelganger was fascinated with Jason and wanted them to sync up. That's the whole scene with the two in the pantry. The tethered represent our darker side and once Jason embraces it, he's able to control it and kill it.
That's because Jason's a hybrid tethered that got switched before his introduction in the movie. Many clues gave it away, such as: people pointing out he was acting weird, at a time didn't speak, and he was off beat. Tethered Adel's real Jason's face and throat got burned, so he wasn't able to speak. Unfortunately, for tethered Adel, she had to watch her Jason walk into the fire. Watch as Adel and her Jason had a moment where you notice he wouldn't hurt her, nor she him, but the tethered hybrid Jason didn't want his life destroyed, so he had his hybrid kill himself. In the end inside the ambulance, Jason cannot speak because he is the same as Adel; originally from the tethered place. It also explains why the supposed tethered Jason was looking physically stronger than the other tethered.
What was messed up was the daughter being able to run fast, but her doppelganger was able to keep up with her. (Retcon maybe.)
@@tellmesomething2412 you know this theory is floating but is perfectly illogical that hes switched based on what's directly in the film
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This is easily disproved and you missed the point as in Jason is like Danny from the Shinning in his weirdness. It's a deliberate misdirection to get away from Adelaides behavior
So to debunk
Born out of Fire, the Tethereds name is Pluto, Pluto is also known as Hades which both are Gods of the underworld also Pluto is the known to be benevolent as he reigns over harvest and prosperity (your went way off with the planet thing)
Second the time line, 1 year. Your theory has holes because you are saying Red would teach ONLY Jason which is illogical, as no tethered speaks, secondly both would exhibit extreme behaviors especially since one lost his grandparent but was in this hell the other was normal brought down, so they wouldn't contrast they would both be fucked up. And on that we see that the parents if nothing else are attentive, Adelaide as a child overheard her parents talking with the therapist, the parents dialogue is a double entendre, but it's meant to let us know they realize that's NOT their daughter even the fathers uneasy reaction as he rubs her head
Next the idea that hes digging is weird is to confuse the audience and show your own bias. Him digging nor his behavior is weird. His is merely reserved and pays attention, but nothing else about him is off, 2 stuck up white kids saying hes weird why do you assume their assessment is correct. Even the father saying where did you pick up that language, is more a deflection away from him likely swearing
Next its confirmed 100% in the film, the tethered cant control the above the experimental failed which is why they were abandoned. Further he gives us tons of visual ques that the above control the below, start with Reds dialogue where she clearly says you open nice gifts, ours sharpe, you eat nice foods we eat rabbit, the dance Red who is an excellent dancer, learned ballet, we saw Adelaide below have awkward jerky movements same as when they fought, one was graceful in her movements the other clumsy. Third there is a long definitive montage as young Red walks through the park with her parent and young Adelaide below with hers, everything is copied in twisted ways below, that Automatically breaks any theory with Jason
But further to clarify what Jason is, and the other 3 children are all HALF. One above and below parent for each. So each is more connected one can easily assume. That's why Jason and Pluto are as different as they would seem. But what we really get from Jason and his behavior is the misdirection from Adelaide. We are told who Adelaide is from the beginning, we are told even more si throughout, her speech patterns when she gets freaked out talking to her husband is odd, when they eat dinner, she eats like a rabbit, we can assume shes a vegan but no is paying attention to her eating strawberries and only fruits and vegetables. At the beach she doesnt talk shes awkward socializing, she never drinks she only consumes water, everyone focuses on Jason but hes only following his mother in the car, she is supposed to be a dancer (as she hinted at one time she was great), but she has absolutely no rythem. By the time their friends die, Jason is the used to let us know something is wrong with his mother as her Tethered nature surfaces more and more.
So without Jason there is no way you WOULDNT realize that Adelaide isnt who she says she is.
That's Jason's real purpose, hes the vehicle by which we the audience observe and get distracted
By the end, Jason's look in the ambulance is one of, I know my mother is one of them, in fact hes the only one suspicious of her behavior. Meanwhile Jason can control his tethered because hes figured it out, (his quiet and observant behavior allows him to be the only one paying attention)
So we can forever put this one to bed, I'm not sure how anyone missed those ques to imply Jason but this one isn't close.
Besides the MOST important part of all of this, no one has explained why EITHER would logically be switched. Both are old enough to be aware, so why would either child form these bonds under these conditions? Your're saying that either parent/mother would willing give up their child which isnt a theme in this movie, that the children wouldn't notice or react, and that somehow this would benefit either mother in a plan.
That's why this doesnt fit as a twist, is bares no weight on the story telling at all. Who would it help
@@tellmesomething2412 Also, the part about the "3 fingers point back at you" was very weird for him to say
@@oluave2211 And, after I've looked into homie @SingingChef I saw some inconsistencies, but I get his opinion as well. I just don't want to continue. However, in the words of J.P., "I left room for an open interpretation."
Saw it Saturday, Matinee. They were having a special and it was only $5 instead of $8. What can I say...…..I got 5 on it!
As the great Lord Bison said: “For me... It was Tuesday.”
It seems like a lot of people are confused about what the Tethered are. The Tethered, from how I understand it, aren’t clones. They are doppelgängers that exist as human beings. Even Red states that “we are human”. Jason can’t be a hybrid because that implies that Adelaide is nonhuman, rather than one of a pair of humans that look the same and share the same soul. The connection between the Tethered individuals is more spiritual than literal, hence the inconsistency. You can say that the Tethered that live underground can see a window into the other person’s experiences without fully experiencing it themselves. At least that’s how I saw it.
Yes! It's all about the metaphors.
Thanks for this.
I got the same take! The tethered were both physically and psychologically connected. Hence why Adelaide says they know where we are. For generations they mimicked the aboveground. The dance between the two breaks the physical connection.
You can see Adelaide is the actual clone because you remember when she went to find Jason at the end she knew exactly where to go. Unlike human child Adelaide was lost in that mirror house.
Or she just went back to the last spot she remembered in the house of mirrors...
@@RobertDGordon watch the film again and you'll get what I'm saying.
The tethered sound like Doodle Bob from spongebob squarepsnts
BIGBDABO$$ lmao jesus
You tethered! Me Spongebob!
Classic
You sayin Spongebob predicted Us?
Exactly!
The “I Got 5 On It” song worked best when they played it during the battle w Red vs Adelaide at the end. I was on the edge of my seat.
I listen to the song daily.
I loved that part. The music... the fighting.... so brutal.
I can watch that scene endlessly!!!
It was SOOOOOO EPIC!!!
Why did it work best for you?
I’m a simple man I see Jordan peele
I go see movie
I dont think Jason was controllin his tethered i think they were “playing” like in the closet. His clone was emulating him like it was a game
I think he was and that's more evidence towards the Jason/Pluto switch theory
That's how I saw it too
Scissor= cutting their tether, object that is the same on both sides and a weapon
Glove= MJ homage with the one glove, from her Thriller shirt that was taken
Also the ending was an illusion to thriller. The same look lupita gives to the camera at then end "knowing" she is the tethered one as Michael does to the camera at the end of thriller. Plus with the shirt she won makes this waaaay more than a coincidence.
A great film overall. I loved all the hidden Easter eggs the director uses to further develop the plot. I don’t expect everything that he does to be “Get Out”, but it won’t keep his future works from being entertaining.
Clues that told me Jason was a clone the whole time. I hope you all go back and watch the movie again after you read these clues.
Clue 1. The family kept speaking on how different Jason has been acting since his grandmother passed away a year ago (there was a fire at that time), which made me believe in the second viewing that he was switched a year ago.
Clue 2. Jason had a new vocabulary of bad words that the family was confused about. His sister even asked him where he was learning those words from. I'm guessing he learned a few words from the real Adaline (remember, she's the only one who can speak underground). Also, I'm guessing before the switching, Jason was learning how to speak from the real Adelaide (red) since he's been living with red for a while till he was around 9.
Now some of you may say "but the boy's voice wasn't strained like red. That's because he wasn't choked like his mother red. Red had a choked voice because of her being choked as a child by the clone.
Clue 3. In the car, when the music came on, Jason couldn't get with the rhythm and didn't even know how to snap his fingers. Instead, he was snapping his fingers backwards. Although Adelaide couldn't get on beat either.
Clue 4. Jason was making sand tunnels. He's been living in those tunnels for a while before the switching.
Clue 5. Jason drew a third person picture of himself from behind looking at the homeless man. Most people who notices something that they want to draw will usually draw what they see, not a picture of themselves looking at what they're seeing(third-person point of view).
Clue 6. During the invasion, Gabe tells Jason to go get his bat. If you paid attention, Gabe said it as if Jason was supposed to know the location of the bat, but Jason replies "WHAT BAT?", as if he hasn't been in this house multiple times, but the sister knew exactly where it was and found it.
Clue 7. Jason kept trying to do the magic trick and couldn't do it. He mentions that he used to do the magic but couldn't remember how to do it anymore. Meanwhile, underground, Pluto would practice with the matches and would burn his face over and over again. Every time Jason fails the magic trick on ground, Pluto, underground, would do it with matches and burn his face over and over again.
Clue 8. Pluto never killed anybody. Red (the real Adelaide) allowed Pluto and Jason to go and play (I need you all to think).
Now, this is when Lupita knew that Jason was switched.
Clue 9. (Remember CLUE 3) When the family stopped in front of their burning car, they saw Pluto standing out in front of the burning car. Adelaide gets out of the car to go and kill him. When she walked up to Pluto, the boy started snapping his fingers correctly, which let her know that he was her real son. That's why when Pluto started backing into the fire (because of Jason) Adelaide started reaching out trying to save him, telling him to not go in the fire and that's when she became sad because that was her real son. Then at this moment, that's when Red (real Adelaide) takes Jason, her real son, down to the bottom in the tunnels. I'm guessing at this point, red told Jason that she was his real mother and decided to hide him in the locker so she can finish off the fake Adelaide.
That's why Jason was uncomfortable around Adelaide when she took him from the locker and probably explains the reason why he had a strange stare at her in the hospital truck. Although she was looking back at Jason with a slight smile as if she was mentally telling him "I guess we both have a secret that the other two know nothing about"
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Im not sure becuz why would the real Jason not be able to talk and why walk on all fours? You said he got switched a year ago. That doesnt mean he wouldnt know how to speak or act all animalistic.
Also, how would the clone Jason even know about the magic trick? You could say becuz they are tethered but then that busts your whole "why doesn't he know where the bat it?" theory.
CommunityServesUs real Jason can’t talk because he burned his face. He acts animalistic because he has a love for animals which explains the reason why he hops around like a bunny(the bunny rabbits in the movie). But let’s go back to that question, because that pretty much exposes a lot of things we can speak on that doesn’t make sense with this movie. Adelaide gets switched but she still had the chance to escape, think about it. All these years she planned for the revolution...and somehow manages to find her way out to get back to the beach house? That means she knew where those stairs were. Although that brings up more questions. How big is this place underground? How many tunnels are there for thousands, maybe millions of clones to live in. There has to be multiple door ways to escape, they all couldn’t just have come from hat same spooky house. And if there’s multiple door ways we could guess that maybe there was another hidden door in the woods where the beach house is. I’m guessing that’s how Jason got switched during the burning last year.
And with Adelaide as a child, she could’ve ran back out to find her parents. Those clones weren’t gonna do anything ‘cause they were too busy mimicking the above.
Now about the magic trick. This is were you have to pay attention. In the closet, Pluto (real Jason) was actually teaching Jason how to do the magic trick. Which Jason should’ve know because based on how connected he was to the toy (never leaving it behind) he should’ve known how to do the magic trick.
With the sister’s clone, it made sense. Remember, whatever your hobby is the clone will take a toll on it even if you stop doing whatever your hobby is. That’s why the clone was able be a faster runner than Zora. Zora gave up on running track while the clone kept running. We saw this with Red and Adelaide when it came to ballerina. But with Jason, that doesn’t make sense to me because the connection between him and the toy are extremely close to the point where the toy was something he would never leave behind to forget about. And now all of a sudden he forgets how to do the magic trick with the toy. That makes no sense.
As far as the bat? That theory still exists. We would think he’s been to the house multiple times to know where the bat is but now he doesn’t?
Gabe: Jason hasn’t been the same since he last came here with his grandmother.
Red: Be careful, we don’t want to burn the house down.
(Red laughs)
Burning house, grandmother, multiple secret doorways. Those are all strong clues.
But I think you and I can agree that Get Out is better constructed movie than US. There are still things in this movie that doesn’t make sense but that’s what happens when a studio rushes Jordan write his next film.
Also, I want to say that I have a theory that US is possibly a prequel to Get Out.
I’m calling it now... *shared universe.* The knights of the Templar are involved. Remember their hunting song, “Run rabbit, run rabbit, run run run” 🤷🏾♂️
No bc they would all be dead
Haha. Knights of the Templar.
My boyfriend pointed out something interesting regarding how the little girl made it to aboveground. When the Original Adelaide was walking down to the pier and beach, the underground tethered needed to stay put for a period of time in order to stay on the escalator. OG Adelaide stayed put looking out at the beach so that was most likely when her tethered was going up the escalator and met with her.
2. I think the little girl was able to communicate with the entire country of the tethered because aboveground, Adelaide was traveling and living her life. If they follow their counterpart she had have made it to the east coast at SOME point in 20+ years. in the beginning of the movie, it mentioned all of the underground tunnels nationwide so that could make sense.
15:08 they kind of did that when the Kitty Teller characters clone put on make up. That can be seen as "I always simulated make up on myself for years and now I get to actually do it."
It would have been much simpler if the clones wore the red jumpsuits their whole lives. The clothes thing raised way too many questions
Good point. It would have been even better if they were supernaturally made.
Martin: Some of it doesn't make sense.
*ominous music begins*
I actually think a lot of the film makes sense, more then you guys give it credit of
You just have to really think about it, which is why I loved it.
Any I think the point of the hands at the end just showed that she didn't have a plan after killing her teeter
She wanted revenge but didn't know what she wanted next
I’m glad y’all didn’t believe in the son being a tether. 👌🏾 That was the one theory I was waiting on you to discuss. All the kids being hybrids was more interesting.
"We're Americans"= the tethered are all of us. We all have a dark side, a shadow.
Honestly that part made me laugh so hard, I couldn't take that line seriously and it didn't help that Red sounds like she's got a sore throat.
U.S. = United States
I think it means they were made in the US
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This is one film you gotta watch more than once to understand most of the movie. Some of the things they don't explain well like "get out". The twist I didn't like too much.
They wore similar clothes to the people above- however when they decided to rebel, it looked like they received identical uniforms (when red explained organizing the rebellion to adelaide a flashback showed them placing their uniforms on their beds)
To be honest I still want to go see it a second time to catch any bits I missed
I saw that twist coming because of the Simpsons lol
Genius!
If H.G Wells' The Time Machine and Invasion of the Body Snatchers had a baby it would look like US.
I just figured out that the red was able to go upstairs because her above ground version went in the funhouse.she was mimicking Addy's need to escape from her parents above ground.If anybody had gone in the funhouse who's clone was in there they would meet their self too.
Jason was building tunnels on the beach and the end look he gives the mom at the end is making people believe he’s a tether.
He wasn’t
That, and some weird conversation he and the mom has at the beginning. I don’t believe he’s a tether tho.
He's a hybrid. All the children are hybrids.
I don't think that Jason was a Tether at the end. He gives his mom that untrustworthy look because he knew she was a Tether afterall and she gives him that creepy smile.
Feline Fatale and that’s what made the end good to me it wasn’t a happy ending but he knew the truth after all
I honestly liked “Us” way more than “Get Out” and feel like I’m in the minority on this. “Us” had plot holes of course but so did “Get Out” that whole convenient crawl space with all the pictures of past victims that Chris just happens to find ruins the movie for me at times. Honestly feel like “Get Out” is more praised just because of the racial metaphors. To compare the two isn’t fair as they’re two completely different movies. “Us” is a more standard horror movie and does exactly what it tries to do all while looking visually amazing and telling an intriguing story. Either way Jordan Peele is doing the damn thing and is revitalizing the horror genre
Peel explains the opening of the door in the audio commentary of the movie. He still wouldn't be able to leave though, even if he didn't find the pictures.
Well clearly rose isn't right in the head so she probably left it there deliberately to mess with him....nothing convinient about it
lurkzie Convenient or not it still doesn’t make sense, and just poor writing on Peele’s part, like Rose was in on the process the whole time and through out the entire movie acted like she wasn’t until she just said “ahh fuck it” and let Chris find the photos, just because? Wouldn’t it have been easier to just not let him find it and leave him in the dark? Did she do the same thing with her other victims? Why tf does she just leave that evidence in a box in the first place? I felt like if that was left out entirely and you just find out that Rose is evil just through the whole “Give me the keys” scene it would have been a lot more satisfying
@@Chris_MKII I personally found the photos effective because it establishes that chris is just another victim of her manipulation process. because previously our only indication of their abduction method was her brother physically wrangling victims.
The fact that we find this out just as he does makes the reveal even more potent because it allows us to put ourselves in his shoes.
As i said before she is a psychopath so at that point she really has no reason to care or not if he finds the photos and just wants to get him in the right place for her mom and brother to corner him before she drops her cute act.
This really got to me cos when he found the photos i was shocked to find that she was part of it but the way she continued to act so natural really had me confused because she was so convincing as an innocent outsider who was oblivious to what was going on and as an audience member you want to trust that she is good because up until the photo reveal you have no reason to suspect she isnt.
lurkzie I can understand why you thought that, but to me it just felt unnecessary and forced, to each their own I guess
I think they only mimic the movements that require the use of a soul aka when they create art, dance, fall in love... when one half of the Tethered participates in something that’s very ‘human’ they have to share that and they mimic that. Example, the dancing scene / Jason and Pluto both loving fire
I will say this... Even though you can't compare US and GET OUT 'cause they're two different films, I will say that GET OUT is a better-constructed movie than US.
Remember that Addy was a little girl. She also probably went insane. The tethered don’t really have free will. So her mind functioned like a child’s would. Children don’t have the ability to dissect information the way adults do. I think the original Addy told Jason the truth.
There's a line of dialogue, She said that the scientist, gave up everything eventually. The scientist were proving necessities for the tethered until the 80's
So who was providing their necessities after the '80s? How were the rabbits being fed? How did Adelaide's Tethered become "untethered" and go replace the original? Why were the Tethered only copying people when it was convenient for the script to happen? Why would Tethered Adelaide attack the mechanical owl so furiously near the end when that was something the original Adelaide experienced when they were "probably untethered"? Where the hell did Red get a ballerina's outfit when her Tethered was off performing that routine? Did the Tethered sew their own jumpsuits? The movie's really well made but it doesn't stand up to scrutiny, and it's not allegorical enough for the lack of logic to be excusable.
@@MetaMetro3 peele went exaggerated sci fi realistic but he should have gone supernatural. But if magic or something like that was involved there would be slightly less plot holes
As far as the mask goes, Were wolves are duel entities too
25:28 I think the red suits and the gloves were references to Michael Jackson
Milo Milo yooo it makes sense now. Since that was on her shirt.
I think the red jumpsuits are from her other shirt.. when her clone takes the thriller shirt , you can see the original girl has on the hand across America shirt with all the figures are red . The clone has on a blank shirt. I think the hands across America is her inspiration, given the fact that it was the feather mission to do
These guys are reading Into the film too literally looking for explanations. Its pretty obvious things are left open and confusing for a reason
Right lmaoo it’s like sci-fi why would shit have to make that much sense
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renegade4288 Yea it’s a homage to the twilight zone, the point was the journey and the message the explanations or realism wasn’t a priority
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Did anyone else notice that in the home invasion, Adelaide tells Zora to put her shoes on and no one else. Later on Red sends Zora’s tether to chase her.
Why did it take so long for the original Adelaide to escape the underground. Like it didn't look like it was hard to escape at all. And I find it crazy that human Adelaide was started the whole move to kill the humans when she's human herself and wants revenge against the clone Adelaide for taking her life. So it's crazy she would influence the clones to do the same thing her clone did to her. I know they said something about privileged and slaved.
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Here’s some questions that I have:
1. If the tethered are forced to mirror the movements of the original then how did they even come above to the surface to kill their originals? That’s not a mirrored movement. They’re actively deciding for themselves to kill people.
2. If the tethered are the ones forced to mirror the original then why is the original Adelaide being forced to mirror the movements of the clone?
3. Why didn’t the original Adelaide just leave since she knew where the exit was?
4. How did the original Adelaide even know anything about the experiments since nobody down there could talk and, presumably, there was no facility that talked about the origins of the experiment?
5. The original Adelaide calls the day that they’re going to kill their originals “The Untethering,” but if they are already on the surface and can make their own choices then aren’t they already untethered? Why does anybody have to die?
6. Why did they wait so long to do the “Untethering”? Couldn’t they have done it much earlier?
7. If the whole experiment was a government operation then shouldn’t the U.S. government know exactly what is going on and know how to stop it? Was it a shadow organization? Wouldn’t they keep tabs on the operation to ensure that the clones couldn’t escape? Or just kill them all if they deemed it a failed experiment?
8. How did Jason make his clone mirror his movements? Nobody else has that ability, and if they did have that ability, then once again the tethered shouldn’t even be on the surface to kill anybody anyway. It can’t be because he’s a hybrid since Zora doesn’t show any ability to do that. It can’t be because of concentration since nobody even knew the tethered existed before the events of the film and they were still forced to mirror the actions of the originals.
9. How do they get any supplies down there?
10. How does the reproductive process work with the tethered? It’s one thing if the clones were deliberately created, but if you’re telling me that the tethered population is sustained through mirrored child births then that doesn’t make any sense.
These are all of the big questions that I have after seeing this twice. It’s a good movie in terms of the craft, but once you start thinking about the plot, it all starts to break down.
I actually understood the premise from trailer (it telegraphed clearly where it was heading with the nature of the Tethered) while the twist reveal was given within the first 5 minutes of the film (one of the aspects of the film I greatly praise and do believe Peele is talented as a writer) through the attentive details given with the shirt and ultimately what the scene relates to. I still believe it is a very ambitious and commendably crafted horror thriller with very heady themes and conflicts that relate to duality of human nature and the disparage of those civilized and forgotten in a very genre-esque way. However, it doesn't quite land smoothly with its end point in providing the goal of the Tethered and how that character "twist" literally raises more questions about their nature and how they were able to recreate and reproduce exact copies throughout the film as well as the point of their conflict. That I believe lies at the heart of the criticism for the film's finale, for a writer to have such logical and precise writing in his first 2 acts, for it to kind of go over the top and fall into those overblown trappings of the horror genre in the climax, kind of was a letdown and feels a bit disconnected from the majority of the film. This is still better than most horror films on the market right now and I would be glad to see it again but I feel with another pass at the 3rd act, it could have been another classic or satisfying film overall like Get Out was.
I think y’all missed something - the Tethered were devoid of a soul, and that had something to do with the attempted control of the surface world. The sci-fi only went so far - the logic of the Tethered was more like a fairytale.
Cool discussion and dialogue about US. This movie is stuck in my head. I absolutely loved it (And definitely want to see it again)... And for some reason I just can't get that DT Merch off of my mind.
apparently the holding hands in a line while wearing red represents red lining...
There's too many plot holes and questions in this movie for it to truly be enjoyed.
That accidental “I Got 5 On It” remix sting at 9:40 cracked my shit up!
That part about the sexy sax man from The Lost Boys had me laughing hard. You guys are my favorite for movie reviews. I say that being a viewer of every one out there who is popular. But not only are you honest about films but you make me crack up every day. Every video I click on is always a real treat. You guys are the best.
I think the movie is ambitious but it really doesn't hit the mark if you don't suspend enough disbelief to let certain glaring plotholes go over. Great ideas, great metaphors to the human condition but the writing missteps are played off as ambiguity and once questioned, opens up even more inconsistencies. Not a "must-see" but a much appreciated approach to filmmaking.
Thankyou someone finally said...if you think this is a masterpiece you need to sit your ass down...its a great vision but still very flawed
THIS. Brilliant puzzle pieces but they are all jumbled up with too many missing.
Agreed.
Midnight Broker most people are getting caught up on jumpsuits and scissors. That doesn’t bother me.
I like how it's eluded that Jason caused his tether to be burned by him playing with fire. At least that's what I got.
You're right...it was foreshadowing. His trick with the lighter
I think the Hands Across America was for the shadows, not the originals. Some of the shadows underground probably rebelled against the idea of killing the originals and taking over the surface. The shadows that joined hands could've symbolized an alliance for their rebellion.
One more thing that is unexplained:
If Red wanted to take her place back in the world and be with her 'real family', why didn't she come alone? She obviously didn't want to hurt the two kids. Why she wanted to hurt Gabe is still vague. But that's still a mystety for me.
Been waiting on this. 70 million the 1st weekend I’m going again today. Can’t stop thinking about this film. Just need to hear the exposition again. But the movie is brilliant. I don’t have as many questions as others just how was red and (fake Lupita) able to still dance and mirror each other if they switched out? Or does it not matter since they’re already cloned?
I think the idea is that there really isn't a difference between the people above and the people below, no biological difference at least. The only reason why the people above are in control is because of their circumstances, they haven't been driven mad by being trapped in an underground tunnel system their entire lives. I think the tether goes both ways, because honestly how many times have you done something that made no sense to yourself?
And concerning the dancing scene, the dance they perform is a duet, and they each perform half of it.
I think her motivation wasn't to spread awareness to the people they were killing, but to the government for abandoning them (a metaphor for those today who feel like the government is abandoning them). I guess they wanted the government to see them line up and go "Oh shit...those guys...whoops."
I have a lot of questions about this film too, but it's really interesting to hear you guys go back and forth about it. I could watch an hour of this. Also on the TV in the 1st scene is the World Trade Center (11) Twin Towers.
The clone snuck out of the site because the real girl snuck away from her parents , so the clone did the same
But why was it so easy to leave the tunnels or whatever? Did the so called government not lock the doors?
gj9352 it wasn’t easy. There was a lot of door and steps and escalators to get too the underground tunnel.
@@avonbarksdale91 and none of it locked.... I mean even a little girl clone found her way out
Pluto’s mouth was burned shut. Look at it again, also he was building sand tunnels. Who builds tunnels at a beach. Usually it’s castles animals hell even mounds.
As soon as Adelaide's mother said, "I just want my little girl back," that combined with the "she won't talk" bit made the twist obvious to me. I kind of wish they would've obscured her mother's words a bit or cut her dialogue shorter earlier in the movie, because that would've made it less blatant. Then again, I watch a ton of horror movies, so I think I'm always ready for switches like that.
My biggest question about this film is why were there no police, military or law enforcement? Why did no one have a gun? You’re telling me clones with scissors overran the LAPD, and the National Guard?
nuffsaidNY I think they were killed by their Tethered clones
Realistically, those groups would protect their families and I believe the doppelgängers planned to take out the police first which is why they said wait 15 minutes and then never came, they died.
edit: spelling
Trebor X with SCISSORS? those clones weren’t bulletproof.
Fuck the police
V I still makes no sense. Also the real Adelaide said she had to cut her son out of her. How did she perform a C-Section on herself with scissors and survive?
Just putting this out there, Jason can be a tethered. The scene where hes walking in the fire can actually be Pluto controlling Jason. Pluto is sacrificing himself to what he loves so that Jason can get kidnapped. "Red" was waiting for Jason to back up so she could snatch him and run, Pluto revealed his face to Adelaide to show that he was the real one and that's why she got so emotional to him walking into the fire. He was her real kid.
Interesting
I really found that last shot, combined with that high note in the song the most haunting thing in the movie. I mean the fact that all those Tethers took out most of Santa Cruz was one thing, but learning right at the last minute that this has been going on throughout the whole COUNTRY?! And at the same time no less?! THAT’S TERRIFYING! And the thought of trying to figure out what would happen when the family reaches their next destination makes the thought even more frightening even with the extra questions that that last shot brings with it.
Consider this DT,maybe the Jason we were following was the tethered. Remember, Jason had been acting strange for a year, following the death of the grandmother. He couldn't figure out the magic trick,even though he had done it before. He was also locked in the closet for a while before he was found by his family. I think u can control the other once someone has taken full control of the wheel(so to speak). Also remember we see a glimpse of this bc Adelaide learned how to dance FROM Red while she was underground even though she was born above ground. This explains how Jason was able to control Pluto and walk him into the fire. Also it would explain why Jason wasnt really scared of his tethered
Us reminded me of something Junji ito (manga horror writer/artist) would do. If you think about it, it makes no real sense. but its so weird and unsettling. That you can’t stop wondering about it.
The ending of Us reminds me of a Simpsons treehouse of horror episode.
You mean the one where we found out that Bart had a twin brother named Hugo?
@@christinalittleton2242 yes
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As soon as I saw the "Thriller" Shirt I already knew the twist
DeAnna - Flat Earth and More and people left the movie and still didn’t get the twist. Everybody’s different.
You also can't have an underground facility that deep so close to the shore. It would be flooded.
To the clothing argument. Someone above ground had to make the clothes so the tethered below made close and someone above ground sold clothes so someone underground "sold clothes" of course with the movie like this you have to take some suspension of disbelief just like Spider-Man into the spider verse makes no sense when you really think about it, its just a good story.
I thought it was interesting that Adelaide seemed concerned when the Tether versions of her children were dying more so than her own children at that time. Here it was because she was the Tether herself. Plus her parents thought she had PTSD since she wasn't talking. It was because the Tether didn't know how.
If Jason was a hybrid and that's why he could control Pluto... wouldn't that make Zora a hybrid too? Then how come she couldn't control Umbrea? Like at all? Zora's older than Jason but not by much.
Honestly the movie had a lot of really cool and interesting ideas that would've been really great if fleshed out in a series like a Netflix or something like that, but instead we had more questions than answers. But I guess the movie wasn't about all that minutia and just about the weirdness.
18:54, to be fair, I really was that bitch when I was a kid, like the second my parents told me not to do something, I turned around and did it, even though I knew once my mama found out I'd be paying for that shit with my life
Funny how you guys made the Rorschach connection from Watchmen and the poster for 'Us' is a Rorschach blot.
The Hands Across America thing was *freaking dumb* to me, and I was like, "Uh...okay."
The tethered showed more unity and oneness than the actual humans. In the 80s, hands across America had gaps, but in the movie the tethered were definitely solid. It’s like the one thing that gave them purpose
This movie's biggest flaw was actually showing the twist instead of leaving it to our imaginations. Imagine if Childs started transforming at the end of The Thing.
Sn: I’m not bashing the movie, I actually liked it a lot.
But then that would distract the audience from the message of the film. He didn't want us to get stuck thinking about that.
He told us the twist, because he wanted to show if you give the lower class the same opportunities of the privileged, without anyone knowing that person is of lower class...they can still thrive and flourish.
Childs was not the thing.
The point is that you can’t say for sure Child’s is not the thing. There is absolutely no evidence that points that he is not, but we can assume from minor details that he is.
We could assume the mother from Us is the Original tethered by her Mannerisms... spelling it out lessened the mystery and cleared doubt. There were multiple themes in this movies, privilege, duality & consciousness being a few. The themes were realized well before the revelation & it does not take exposition to make us aware well after the fact. Other than that imo it was a great film with a good message.
Turtle Biscuits there was a ton of people who left the movie confused as to the addy reveal. Everybody won’t get everything the first time.
I think many of these things are explained by Red leading them. There is rarely something special about Lupita's character and her tethered. This whynshenwas able to find her way out the tunnel. Once switched, shenwas able teach the tethered to break their bond and organize. We have to remember that the events we see in the movie are 30 years in the making
No one gets attacked by Dopplegangers if they were wearing a shirt from DTMerch.com
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One thing I missed because I couldn’t understand /hear what Red said to Adelaide. Did she say (tehered )adelaide telepathically lured the real adelaide to the house of mirrors and ultimately switched places with her?
I think she said god brought them together.
Having 14 theories and one being right does not count as calling it. That's like calling a shot in pool by saying "it's going to hit one of these nine balls and maybe make it into the left pocket or the top right or this one right here."
They didn't go to that beach the year before--Adelaide hadn't been back since the incident in her childhood, and she tried not to go this time but Gabe pushed her into it.
Yea this isnt a movie where logic should be nitpicked...more like a vehicle for abstract and metaphoric ideas
I thought it was a Chewbacca mask, too.
0:51 I FEEL PERSONALLY ATTACKED 😂 I loved that movie.
The scissors also tie in with the rabbit imagery. The way they are held, the scissors appear to be rabbit ears. They also mirror the images from some of the movie posters.
Who cares about the Jumpsuits or Scissors? Now how does she wear the tutu at the end I’ll give you that.
You guys are right at the end of the movie Jason does figure out that his mother is a tethered and he pulls the mass down as sort of a shield to protect him but it's his mother so why would he even be scared it's the same mother he's always going up with his whole life and she's loved him this whole time so there's nothing really for him to worry about hopefully.
The "Sax Man" is Tim Capello. I'm pretty sure he actually did sing that song. It's on the movie soundtrack and his name is on it.
I understand that you all weren't a fan of the Hands Across America thing but you have to understand that Red had been trapped underground with no education or guidance since a very young age. One of the last things she saw on TV was the Hands Across America commercial and she saw it as a way to put an exclamation point on her revolution. She just didn't know any better
Sexy sax man was the shit! Lol. He popped up everywhere in the 80s. I cracked up every time he popped up, randomly out of nowhere in a movie scene.lmao
Been talking about this all weekend. Didn't make a lick of sense.
The government created clones and then abandoned them. They they had a uprise... what doesn’t make sense 😭😂😭😂
Think harder
avonbarksdale91 they abandoned them with an escalator and an unlocked door.
Ruvieb Ok? Lol obviously the government doesn’t give a fuck about them.
It's crazy how the city of Santa Cruz did not want their name in The Lost Boys movie but they allowed their name in this movie. That's why it was called Santa Clara in The Lost Boys instead of taking up the name Santa Cruz. The city was scared that it was going to scare tourism by having people believe that the place had real life vampires when now people are going to believe that the place has tethered doppelgangers.
The Tethered version of Lupita Inyongo only got to leave because Lupita just happened to take all the right steps and turns to get her Tethered up the escalator and in front of her. It was completely by chance that her Tethered mimicked her by walking in the direction she did. And to the point about the Tethered’s lack of jumpsuits, scissors, etc. I saw it as a Sci-Fi movie with supernatural elements; the soul, free will, etc. So I just assumed in the experiment the scientists just tapped into a supernatural force that created doubles of people that are born, every day clothes must pop out of that same dimension for the Tethered to wear.
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Thought the point was the tethered were about controlling the people on the surface
19:42 my thoughts exactly. the "twist" was so obvious i wish they'd just been upfront about it, and it would have been way more compelling.
Yeah Twilight Zone should have revealed the twist at the beginning of each episode.