It reps a spiritual awakening (gone wrong lol). The tethered family seemed to represent their souls and they were trying to survive against their egos - Adelaide, (Dad), Zora and Jason. They initially came in peace, hand in hand, in a time of darkness (but of course our egos want to protect us and were rightfully wondering who the hell are these ppl standing outside of the house like that?! Lol) The dad approached them threatening violence 1st before the tethered started fighting back. The tethered people repped oneness and peace but weren't given the chance to flourish and got caged in early childhood, from one fearful or soul crushing experience or another and that's when they switched. They were the elements at their core - the boy was fire (and Red mentioned he had a temper), the girl was air (running/track, usually making jokes like air signs do), dad was water (initiated the beach trip and always wanted to be on the water) and mom is earth (Mother Earth/ she was running the underground area beneath the earth). I think Red seems to specifically have the power of cutting themselves free since we see the line of tethered people come from her “cage” because well her name is Red, and all of the tethered ones were in red (as were their names in the end credits). She reps The mother earth, the black woman who births all of humanity. Which is maybe why she's the only tethered one who has speaking lines. But her voice sounds like it's growing cobwebs because she wasn't able to use it...
1) Jason was definitely switched the year prior. 2) He is the lure to complete the mission. (Getting them to the beach.) 3) The toy ambulance 🚑 that he always used to prop/“leave a door open” (spiritual adage) is the same 11:11 ambulance seen at the beach.
The rabbit reference pops up many times throughout the movie. 1. All of the rabbits 2. The teen girl’s shirt while they’re looking a The craw daddy on the dock has a rabbit on it. 3. Thó on her jacket means “rabbit” in Vietnamese Etc. Rabbits are also the typical organism used in cloning experiments which is a clear connection to the doppelgängers
IDK if anyone has noticed this yet...the painting in their living room is 4 people, one of whom is dressed in red, a nod to the mom being the tethered in the regular family
There is a theory that Jasons magic trick only works in the shadow world so that’s why Plutos face is burned. Because, remember Pluto follows everything Jason does.
Yes! Or one dressed normally and the other wearing a red jumpsuit with gold scissors. And they mirror each others actions but the clone twin is clearly evil & pretends to try to kill their counterpart throughout the night lol
@@bkimballerina I found mine on Amazon. Just google red coveralls. Look at the details when picking a pair. They did not have visible trimming at the pockets and small turned down collars. You will likely need to shorten them as they were all high water fits on the legs in the movie.
fake Adelaide STOLE the real Adelaide's life,...it's basically the whole plot of the movie. in the cinema at the scene where the twist (the switch) is finally shown, I started to feel sympathetic towards the real Adelaide.
The doppelgänger were made into monster from livening in the tunnel eating rabbits then wanted to free then selfs (they kill there surface counterpart to be free) sad but still makes them dangerous
The score during the final fight scene between Red and Adelaide is titled “Pas De Deux.” A ballet term of a dance duet between two dancers, symbolising their tether.
I'm actually pretty sure that she can't talk because at the end of the movie it shows "red" getting choked and it like broke something in her neck making it hard for her to speak
Nope Red is the real mom she got choked my the fake and she doesn’t remember any of the shit because her parents thought she was weird and couldn’t talk and got her therapy but the whole time it was the underground doppelgänger
@@elliotlangley4459 i was thinking about this too after watching the movie at the cinema. - the fake Adelaide repressed the memory of the switch and convinced herself she is the REAL Adelaide. As an adult, married to Gabe, she completely forgets she is the clone because she never got the treatment. - the real child Adelaide KNEW ALL ALONG she is the real one, decided to get revenge on fake Adelaide via the rebellion...
The place where Adelaide goes into (the hall of mirrors place where she is abducted) has a sign that says "find yourself" referencing the fact that she literally finds herself in there both in the beginning and the end
The dual meaning of it is the fact that LIFE is each human’s journey to find oneself. Perhaps not an 🐣, per se, but certainly worth mentioning for the part of it that many have seemed to miss; particularly youth, who have yet it find themselves. Peele, like any great writer, loves duality.
@@pokerbuddy62 you'd be surprised how many people don't understand basic things like that. There's a narrative surrounding this movie that it's incredibly confusing. One of my friends is so stupid that she thought the final scene revealed that the tethered jumped into young adelaide's body and possessed her.
I think the biggest clue to the twist was in the beginning of the film Adelaide always had something red, but as soon as the mirror scene ended, you never see her wear red again. Then the clones all are wearing red? Nice job, Peele!
one thing i noticed was that when adelaide tells zora she can do whatever she puts her mind to, zora says she wants to drive on the trip. and she ends up doing exactly that. another thing was that zora does track and field, and gabe tells her that running on the sand will help her be a better runner. her tether gives zora a huge head start at the beginning because she’s able to run amazingly fast and catch up to her in literally no time
oh yes another reference. privileged people have a head start compared to under-priv but when they do get a chance they out run/out show the privileged with a head start.
The subtitles at the beginning certainly helped with the whole Alice in Wonderland vibe. Not to mention the actual rabbit hole--and the White Rabbits. I definitely could feel a bandersnatch or a Jabberwock waiting in the darkness of that hall of mirrors.
The tethered aren't insane by nature. They're insane because they grow up underground like rats and don't even know how to speak. The real adelaide became an actual tethered just by living in tjeir conditions while the tethered got to be mostly normal just by living in the surface. My point being thr thered aren't their own species you can make halves with
MIGHT BE A STRETCH HERE... BUT THESE ARE THE LYRICS TO THRILLER... I THINK IT MATCHES WELL WITH THE MOVIE TOO.... It's close to midnight (11:11) Something evil's lurking from the dark Under the moonlight You see a sight that almost stops your heart You try to scream But terror takes the sound before you make it You start to freeze As horror looks you right between your eyes You're paralyzed
That's a wonderful insight I was replaying that scene when the doppelgangers were standing in the driveway under the moonlight and then once the family had seen that they were identical 2 them they were completely stuck in a dazed
Yooooo. Wow. "Terror takes the sound before you make it"... When Addie is in the fun house and sees her doppelganger and starts to scream but before she does, the doppelganger chokes her out. Sheesh....... 😮
How did Jason manipulate Pluto to back into the flames then? I don't think Jason was ever switched, but the fact that his mom is technically a tethered means the boys could both be half tethered and perhaps they then share control over the one soul that dictates both bodies? Edit: I know you didn't say anything about Jason being switched, but I figured that's where you were going with it lol.
Both Jason's are half-breeds. They are both half tether and half human. So for the most part they are identical genetically. One has a tethered father and one has a human father.
Zach L as you know , the red mom was the fake one , and the “normal “ one was the real tethered one , that’s why why burnt face Jason burned in the fire , the “real” mother got really sad
When Adelaide was looking out of the window, recalling her childhood experience to her husband she could not find the words to speak. So she started to tendu`(or practice her dance positions) because her parents had connecting dance lessons to communication.
Not sure if anyone else noticed but when it was flipping between the carnival scene in the real world and the tethered world it showed 2 people playing rock paper scissors. In the normal world they played it normally; beat you fist 3 times and then pick an object. In the tethered world they played it; object, beat 3 times and then stop at a closed fist. Additionally the song the girl was whistling in the hall of mirrors was reveresed by her tetherred part. Might need to rewatch but in the carnival scene I'm pretty sure that the people eating looked like they were pulling food out of their mouths and replacing it on the plate.
I also thought that it was really interesting how Adelaide and Red were connected, and how Adelaide coincidentally decided to go into the mirror house. It’s understood that the doppelgängers below the earth copy the movements of the people from above, and I thought it was interesting how Adelaide might’ve caused the interaction with Red by prompting her to meet where the underground is connected to the world above through the mirror house. I guess that’s also why “find yourself” is outside the mirror house and that it literally means you can find your doppelgänger by leading them to a connection between both worlds. I also thought it was cool how Red always walked as if she was in a ballet recital, her feet always placed at first position and walking in perpendicular lines. Also, it was interesting how Red’s voice was practically ruined because of how she was choked when the fake Adelaide met her in the mirror house. I really love how fluid Peele’s films are as he manages to connect the plot through little Easter eggs in the film.
Why was adelaide not being controlled the entire time she was above. Like when they switched at kids the doppleganger was now free but she wasnt being controlled by the REAL adelaide. Why is that?
@@marieochoa268 Someone theorized it was because the Tethered were failures originally meant to be used as mind control. Adelaide was by chance born as the first successful Tethered that was able to control their non-cloned counterpart instead of the other way around ("We were born special.""). Because they are abandoned and unwatched, she simply switched places with the real Adelaide she was controlling because she was able to.
My theory: the film is also about imposter syndrome. Finally rising from where you were at and then paranoid you dont belong or worse you’ll lose it all. Peele perhaps felt this after the success of GET OUT. Adelaide rose from The depths, got a family and is paranoid one day her past will come back to take it all away. Impostor syndrome (also known as impostor phenomenon, impostorism, fraud syndrome or the impostor experience) is a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a "fraud".
@@sleepiestboi4631 In which cast it's an incredibly reactionary and conservative film that depicts the lower classes a sub-literate murderers incapable of rational thought. A real classy message here.
Maybe dumb theory but i think Jason wears his mask everytime when he encounters/faces with Tethered. In the ending scene he wears his mask when he is looking at Adelaide (which is tethered clone)
Na, She smiles at him to cover up her suspicion, metaphorically "putting on a mask" for others. So Jason, does the same in a literal sense. Jason might know but he for sure has an off feeling about his mom
I don't think it's a dumb theory. I noticed that he wore it when he had to kill (when he went to the white family house). My interpretation was that he wore the mask when he was faced with something difficult that he didn't want to do but felt he had to. Like kill the tethers/keep his moms secret.
@@chrisguy98TM nah dude u so wrong... If it's true .. then what about red ( tethered mother) crying for pluto when he was going in the fire ? Why was she saying " stop stop " . The jason is switched . Jason is himself a clone. And the real jason died in the flames.
@@tetrazone8487 Red is not tethered, she is the real Adelaide and the tethered Jason had his face burnt so there's no way he could've been switched without us or the characters noticing.
ok literally nobody is gonna get the reference but I kept giggling when they were yelling "JASON" over and over cuz it reminded me of heavy rain when the son Jason disappeared and the father walked around for like an hour going "JASON"
Ashley Raikes Actually I broke that down and she was on beat, a lot of people get that part confused but the tempo of the song and her snapping fits with it.
It was on purpose since the Adelaide in the car was actually the tethered Adelaide who didn't know how to dance or keep a beat. Sorry if I'm not clear. There is a video on insider that talks about it.
I mean both, probably. I think Jordan used scissors to indicate cutting the tether, but also as an ironic symbol because to use scissors you need two pieces to work together to execute the action of cutting something. the same way the tethered are connected to their other yet separate. if that makes sense.
The teetered family are stereotypes of the real family. Dad super macho and strong. Black boy is an animal who needs to be controlled. Black girl is cold, strangely missing a hairline with relaxed hair , athletic and finds everything a joke.
Chatty Ashley I hate when people try to make this movie seem like more than what it was but I really like your theory. Very nice I wouldn’t have seen it that way but your definitely right with this one.
I thought the tethered family represented their souls and were trying to survive against their egos/the people we view as normal. The tethered people repped oneness and peace but weren't given the chance to flourish, and got caged in early childhood. The tethered were the elements at their core - The boy was fire, the girl was air (running/track, always jokes like air signs do), dad was water (always wanted to be on the water/go to the beach) and mom is earth (Mother Earth/ she was running the underground area beneath the earth). And the non-tethered girl had relaxed hair too tho.
Remember that when the child Adelaide was taken hostage and replaced, her intellectual growth paused there and then. She lived the rest of her life underground taking with her whatever education and knowledge she grasped of the world by 1986. Everything about her plan is inspired by the 80s, hence the hands across America commercial for the homeless. All the slasher/horror movies she pays tribute to, including MJ's one glove/Thriller, were pre-1986. I think that even Pluto acts like a dog like Disney Pluto coz child Adelaide watched cartoons. Which also reminds me of the feral child in Mad Max 2.
You forgot the Jerimiah 11:11 and 11:11. 11:11 means synchrobization or coincidence which happened a lot in the movie. Synchronization is when Jason can control his doppelganger and coincidence happens when the frisbee exactly fits to the circle and also the twins.
Did you understand why Jason was able to control his doppelgänger during the fire scene? I'm not really understanding why he could but others couldn't.
@@luckyy13 the doppelganger tend to do what their real one do. Maybe in Jason's case, his doppelganger is way too young to think and do things for himself just like the young adelaine do that's the reason why she and Red met at the hall of mirrors.
luckyyy13 - Hmmm, I was wondering the same thing. My theory is: Jason and his doppelgänger switched places at some point and maybe that’s why he’s able to control him. Toward the end of the movie, it seems to me like he realized at some point that his mother also switched bodies. She gave him a look, as in, “I know”. Does anyone else have any theories about Jason/Pluto?
Also, when Adelaide first enters the house of mirrors, it’s called Vision Quest with a Native American man on top. Later it’s changed to a white Wizard character and it’s called Merlin’s Forest. Perhaps a message about whitewashing/Native American genocide?
It seems like environment is what makes people good or bad. Red (the 'original,' I mean) starts off normal but becomes bad, whereas Adiaide(sp?) starts off (presumably) evil but comes normal/good. Red does instigate murdering millions of people after all! Maybe a theme is that we all have good and bad in us, but certain things (environment) can bring one or the other out.
I think the only reason the tethered did the hands across America thing is because when Adelaide went into the shaman hut thing on the beach and sees her doppelgänger she switches right (we figure that out in the end) so the real her is underground with the tethered and one of her last memory’s of the surface world is hands across America soooooo since she probably wanted to see it, she made all the tethered do it while getting a bit of revenge when she came out 🤰
They literally explained this in the final fight with red vs Adelaide. The real addy, referred to as red, explained that she wanted to lead them to the surface and let the work know they are here. The shirt for hands across America was inspiring enough for her to use as a statement.
Just saw Us last night. It was a weird and neat movie. It really makes you think and ask a lot of questions. There are so many themes, details and plenty of symbolism (many of which I am still processing) that can keep you watching this movie multiple times. It does take an open and mature mind to appreciate the movie, but I recommend it. ✂️🤝👫👬👭👬👭👫👬👭👫👭👫👬🐇
Remember how in the movie it played f the police. F the police coming straight from the “underground” the underground is where the tethered come from. My cousin and I thought of this.
the girl in the beginning playing rock paper scissors was the same actress from moonrise kingdom, who if you remember, stabbed Lucas Hedges with a pair of left scissors
So many references! And you don't realise it when you're watching the movie because it's so beautifully put together.... Alice in Wonderland reference (with the rabbits...) Jason (with the mask and the little kid's name being "Jason")... etc. WELL DONE.
Omg omg omg. Yes!!! I’ve always been afraid of that part lol. First: excited that Pee Wee got a ride Second: Driving on the road Third: Large Marge Screams and Hair Flies up and eyes pop out Fourth: I scream and pee myself fifth: I laugh at myself 😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹
"A tethered link across Santa Cruz, maybe across the country for all we know..." Uh.... did you not see the ending? The hands linking went wayyyyy beyond Santa Cruz.
the narrator probably.......didn't watch the movie. at the end right before the ending credits we are shown a LOT of hills and mountains NOWHERE near the beach...
Where do the Tethered go after this? Back to the underground? "But really the biggest question is: where did they get all the red outfits, gloves and scissors if they've been underground this whole time?"
As I learned from Insider, the holding hands could be symbolized to the unification of the clones as they had successfully taken over the area. When the Red family is first seen, they're holding hands while the other family isn't listening to each other; they're scattered and doing what they believe is best. The first time you see the mirror motif is also when the two dad's face off. Red dad is obedient to the mom and pushes through the door, while the other dad is the dominant one but fails to keep the door shut.
Fun fact: Every human in the Santa Cruz is dead by the end of the movie (except for the husband). The mother and children are alive but they don't qualify as human since the mom is Tethered and the children are half breads. (Half tethered half human)
that wa the point in killing the above ground doppelganger, to release the soul into the tethered host. When Red was killed you saw Adelaide take it on.
Well, that's no ordinary rabbits! That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodents you ever set eyes on! Those rabbits have got a vicious streak mile wide
I could never understand how directors even have the time to think about Easter eggs, let alone as complicated as this. Just think of filming a movie, how complicated it is... writing the script, getting the actors, shooting the scenes..... and above all - making these Easter eggs which who knows if anyone would even notice? HATS OFF!
At the end of the "Thriller" music video, Michael Jackson is actually the dopelganger. Similar to adelaid's twist ending. The shirt she was wearing as a child had a picture of the iconic music video.
1) Jason got switched so the boy at the end was the tethered Jason not the real one. Also, tethered Jason killed his Grandmother so his silence would be justified. 2) Lupita's character struggled to talk because the tethered don't speak and she hadn't been able to talk to someone in 30years. 3) Lupita's character (The evil One we thought was good) foreshadowed she was evil by constantly making that noise that the rest of them made everytime she killed someone. 4) Evil Jason was good Jason which is why he was the only one who could light the fire.
Red only struggled to talk because she had her throat choked by the original Red when she was young. Adult Red was young Adelaide switched as a child. She had her larynx damaged. The rest of the Tethered never learned language so that's why they all make vocalizations instead of words.
wow.....Ive never been this scared of photos from a movie in my life also the melanin is poppin in this movie...I like it. Gotta watch this shyt some time.
Garden Tulipan I think we just went to see a movie. I was thinking the same thing, am I that different, not deep? I had quesrions, but these theories are serious. They saw all this.....I'm foing tonwatch it again with this in mind😁
Calm down. That's normal. But I recommend you look all details on the next time you go to a theater, the experience is much better when you get the things while watching.
Keaton Quinlan it’s no accident that Jason wears a mask like Jason, and they’re both horror movies. If you think that’s an accident, you are the biggest buzzkill in human history. This movie is full of Easter eggs referencing old movies and commercials and music. Unless you can prove it WAS an accident, then I’m a firm believer that everyone’s name was picked out intentionally with real thought behind it. Pluto, Jason’s double, is named after the dwarf planet being the furtherest from the sun, so Pluto is always in darkness. Just like the tethered people. The Daughter’s double is named Umbrae. The plural of umbra, the fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object. The names are not coincidental. Stop trying to ruin everything for people. If you aren’t here to bask in the levels of references and hidden meanings in this movie, then get out. (and yes, that was a reference to Jordan Peele’s previous hit horror movie before you act like it was a coincidence.)
I loved the bright red candy apple going from right side up to upside down on the sand right before Adelaide and Red’s experience. Really beautiful symbolism.
How do you think a candy apple is supposed to land when dropped onto sand?! Standing on the stick!? Jesus, everything is not meant to be symbolism. SMH
So did anyone else catch it at the end and realize the mom was a clone? She didn't have PTSD from getting lost she had it from being underground. That's why only the mom could talk when it came to the clones. She was born above ground
foreshadowing when the family ( and their shadows) are filmed from birds eye view as they walk on beach in a single file line to meet their friends is one thing i didnt recognize at first
Now I completely believe Jason(the son) is a clone. Let me explain... In the beginning they mention that someone died the year before(I think it was the grandma) and Gabriel(the dad) said that Jason had a hard time dealing with it. We can assume that this meant he wasn’t speaking. When the family member died, Jason’s clone took his place. Since the same thing happened with Adelaide she knew what was going on and she taught the clone how to speak and act. We don’t know exactly how long it took clone Adelaide or clone Jason to learn to speak but Jason was very smart throughout the movie so he could’ve been able to act “normally” within the year it took before they went back to Santa Cruz. We also know that Jason is portrayed as being very weird and distracted since his sister is constantly saying it. Jason says words throughout the movie which make make his family ask “where did you learn that from”. Another compelling example is when the “clones” are outside the house and Gabe says “go get the bat”. The sister runs to get the bat while Jason asks “what bat”. If the rest of his family knows that they have a bat in the house, why wouldn’t Jason.... unless he’s the clone and he had only been with them since the previous summer. “Well if Pluto “clone Jason” is actually real Jason, why can’t he talk?” We see that Pluto has burns on his face. That paired with his fascination with fire can conclude that he was in an accident that mangled his face and vocal chords. It probably had mental effects on him that caused him to act the way he does in the film.
Nope. Adelaide had herself shut off her memories of the switch. She couldn’t have taught Jason how to speak, without the dad and Sister not knowing it. They are a close knit family.
Was Pluto's face burnt because the lighter trick worked underground, Jason kept trying it near his face above ground, and Pluto had to copy all of Jason's movements? Or did Pluto just like fire?
I think it worked underground. The tethered seemed to excel whilst everyone overground shrugged off their talents. Like Zora wanted to stop track and the boy couldn't hack the magic trick.
Saw the movie and it had allot of hidden messages but I will definitely have to watch it again it was allot going on in this movie. But it all makes sense now.
My theory is that there were more clones that switched out their people because the mirror house is pretty much the center spot that is made for this too have happened. Others who went into the mirror house may have been switched which no one could know because of course they wouldn’t say anything about it just like adalades clone
you may be right.. considering......how EASY it was for clone child Adelaide to find her way out of the underground and "abduct" the real Adelaide. many people who've seen the movie theorize Jason and Pluto were also switched.
I loved this movie, especially with the whole underground mimicking premise, really reminded me of Plato's Allegory of The Cave when we learned about its relevance back in AP Lit. 10/10 recommend this movie, it's an absolute masterpiece.
just curious - why was Vietnamese written on her shirt..? oh is it because if you like literally put " RABBIT" on the shirt it's really dumb...and even a picture of a rabbit would be obvious.
I was more confused as of why the real mom just didn’t say she was the real Adelaide. Orrrrr how was the fake mom able to bear children?? Idk I was just confused when they showed her kidnapping the real mom. Which explains why she was silent for so long.. she couldn’t speak there language..
This movie IS BRILLIANT!!! If Jordan Peele paid tribute to 80’s culture, gave social message, and he is making his audience think. Future filmmaker better STEP IT up
Am I the only one who noticed when the Wilsons first meet their tethered selves, Jason is the one who says "It's us".....as if he already knew what was going on without being told? I just found that so interesting.
If it was so clear, explain something to me. So the shadow people/the tethered imitate what the real life version of them are doing, correct? So if Adeline was switched in 1986 when she was a child, why was SHE imitating what Red (the REAL tethered) was doing in the real world? When the fake Adeline was dancing up above, the real Adeline was dancing underneath. Why was she imitating her if she was the real Adeline. The shadow Adeline should have been imitating the real Adeline the entire time. Also, if the Adeline’s switched at a young age, the fake Adeline is all the kids and the husband would know their whole life. So at the end when they are driving away and we find out about the switch, why was Jason (her son) looking at her weird like that’s not his mom? That’s the same mother that he’s been with his whole life. She literally gave birth to him and raised him. Nothing is different in that respect. Why would he look at his mom like a stranger? It’s still the same her. Also also, why didn’t Adeline leave the underworld when she got out of her handcuffs? Why did she stay and drive herself crazy? This one can probably be explained, but it wasn’t explained in the movie. I know she’s a child, but if I were handcuffed in a strange place, my whole life would be dedicated to getting back to my life and family. As a child, that probably isn’t possible, but as I got older, I would eventually just go up the elevator and leave through the house of mirrors. Why in the world would she stay for 30 years? Nobody was stopping her from leaving? Also also also, who un handcuffed her? Fake Adeline just left her. Nobody there had a key, and none of them were even smart enough to un-handcuff someone. They all grew up in this blank underground place with no basic education or knowledge of language. Also also also also, why did the real Adeline act like the tethered people. Why did she ask the fake Adeline, “What did it feel like to grow up with a Sky...?” She grew up with a real sky. She was familiar with it lol just not all her life. But the whole movie, the real Adeline acted like SHE was the shadow. Even in her story that she was telling the family before they split them up, she spoke like she was just an experiment, and that she had never seen the real world. At one point, she said, “That encounter with you got me thinking. Why didn’t you take me with you?” And that question doesn’t really make much sense after knowing that she isn’t actually the fake Adeline. It would make sense if what the real story that Adeline told, happened. But it doesn’t really sound like something someone would say after being swapped. A more realistic question would be, “Why did you switch our lives? We could have lived together.” Or something. The entire time, the dialogue between Adeline and Red doesn’t seem like a dialogue between two people who were swapped. It feels like dialogue between two people who have only met each other once, and both of them went back to their normal lives like nothing happened. Also also also also also, why was Jason the only one that was able to control his double? This isn’t much of a complaint, and it definitely didn’t bother me throughout the movie, but I feel like that should have been explained or something. I don’t know why the tethered mimic their real world counterparts, except for when they are killing people? I guess I don’t understand the whole tethered part. How, why, and when did they mimic their real world counterparts? It seemed inconsistent. Between scenes AND through characters like in the case of Jason. I loved this movie, and I’m not even complaining about my dumb perspectives of these “plot holes,” but these are all questions I had when I found out about the switch. TBH, I guessed that they were switched when they were at the therapist, and her mom said, “We just want our daughter back...” that was the moment I guessed that they were switched. But then Adeline told her husband the story of what happened, and she visibly seemed shaken up about it, so I assumed that they weren’t switched. And all of these minute and subtle details made me believe that the switch never happened. Especially the dialogue between the two. Then, when they reveal the switch, it made me think back to all those little details, and it made the switch seem odd to me. It just didn’t make sense, and it raised more questions than it did explaining things. But I don’t know. Maybe I’m nuts lol
@@PtylerBeats Nope, you're not nuts. The movie made no sense whatsoever. It was a great concept that just wasn't thoroughly thoughtout. I really don't get why people like it so much, it was one of the dumbest movies i've seen in a long time, and that's saying a lot...
@@PtylerBeats I think some of your questions are really interesting. On other hand, some of them can be responded if you think a little more. For example, Jason didnt look at his mother in a strange way because he thinks she's not his mother. Actually, he looked his mother in a strange way because he knows she switched with the real Adelaide. Jason was acting just like the audience while watching the movie. I think it was a way that Peele found to show us that her secret wasn't totally safe.
Tyler Grant I heard the people on top control the people on the bottom, even if the (fake) is one top. That’s why the (real) one told the (fake) if it wasn’t for her she wouldn’t have learned how to dance, so I guess it’s true. She asked “what did it feel to grow up with a sky?” Bc she stole her live and technically didn’t grow up with a sky her whole life. At the end Jason it’s looking at his mother weird because the (real)one told him the truth. That they switched as kids and his mother is the (fake).
I think the biggest message is that we're our own worst enemy. That's why when Adelaide was trying to attack Red, she was the one that kept getting hurt.
Wasn’t confusing the one switch in the movie just made everybody question everything vs the switch it self like what sane parent would let their youngest play with lighters .. why she was reading a book with no words in it ..if she was scared about goin to the beach .. why not insist of flying somewhere else .. why husband the only one who was friends with the white couple n how distant Adelaide n the kids were to them ..how she locked her self to the leg of the table but couldn’t lift the table to get loose
Clubber Lang What?! Lol your saying it’s not confusing but your asking questions? That doesn’t make any sense😒and those questions you just listed wasn’t what made me confused.not even close lol
Smoking The Galaxy jus speaking in general ppl didn’t focus on the primary character n her actions after the switch .. they started questioning T-shirt’s burns etc
Seeing these comments for my first time 2yrs later because someone puts the alphabet wow lol well thank you all for the opinions. I barely even remember the movie now lol
Jordan Peele has definitely become my hero to the horror genre. From start to finish, the movie is loaded with surprises, hidden gems, religious allegory n another creepy but hella original, opening theme, lol. I thought Sikiliza Kwa Wahenga was eerie enough but M. Abels KILLED it with Anthem. Eerie but something to nod ur head to - Bananas, lol!! Fantastic sophomore film n I anxiously look forward to future projects from Mr. Peele indeed
If I'm remembering correctly, when "Mom" got out of the car to finish off the tethered daughter and found her hanging from the tree, the daughter reached out her hand to her, like she knew she was her true mother. And "Mom"s reaction of sympathy and pain clearly connoted that. I remember thinking that was strange as I watched it.
She was not her true Mother. She got switched as a little girl and she didn’t give birth to this girl. The Daughter sensed that this woman is also a tether, one who resembles her Mother.
What's the best little detail you caught that we didn't mention?
Dez nuts
A K I hate you !😂😂💀
It reps a spiritual awakening (gone wrong lol). The tethered family seemed to represent their souls and they were trying to survive against their egos - Adelaide, (Dad), Zora and Jason. They initially came in peace, hand in hand, in a time of darkness (but of course our egos want to protect us and were rightfully wondering who the hell are these ppl standing outside of the house like that?! Lol) The dad approached them threatening violence 1st before the tethered started fighting back.
The tethered people repped oneness and peace but weren't given the chance to flourish and got caged in early childhood, from one fearful or soul crushing experience or another and that's when they switched. They were the elements at their core - the boy was fire (and Red mentioned he had a temper), the girl was air (running/track, usually making jokes like air signs do), dad was water (initiated the beach trip and always wanted to be on the water) and mom is earth (Mother Earth/ she was running the underground area beneath the earth). I think Red seems to specifically have the power of cutting themselves free since we see the line of tethered people come from her “cage” because well her name is Red, and all of the tethered ones were in red (as were their names in the end credits). She reps The mother earth, the black woman who births all of humanity. Which is maybe why she's the only tethered one who has speaking lines. But her voice sounds like it's growing cobwebs because she wasn't able to use it...
1) Jason was definitely switched the year prior.
2) He is the lure to complete the mission. (Getting them to the beach.)
3) The toy ambulance 🚑 that he always used to prop/“leave a door open” (spiritual adage) is the same 11:11 ambulance seen at the beach.
The rabbit reference pops up many times throughout the movie.
1. All of the rabbits
2. The teen girl’s shirt while they’re looking a The craw daddy on the dock has a rabbit on it.
3. Thó on her jacket means “rabbit” in Vietnamese
Etc.
Rabbits are also the typical organism used in cloning experiments which is a clear connection to the doppelgängers
IDK if anyone has noticed this yet...the painting in their living room is 4 people, one of whom is dressed in red, a nod to the mom being the tethered in the regular family
Cannon Sports good eyes🤘🏻
No shit huh
There is a theory that Jasons magic trick only works in the shadow world so that’s why Plutos face is burned. Because, remember Pluto follows everything Jason does.
nice theory
It’s a fact
Yeah but Jason’s magic trick is to start a fire and he did that twice in the movie
I seen that's because the kids r half tethered
Nice theory.
And 2019's #1 Halloween costume will be red jumpsuits and scissors.
People might forget about this movie tho
@@TechGodI-AM-THE-GREATEST no way, the movie is a hit and Jordan is one of the most talked about directors
I hope twins dress up as this
@@FireyCurls22 Or you mean, one of the twins dresses up?
Suwoooo
Wishful thinking : It will be cool to see twins wearing the doppelgänger costumes during Halloween 🎃
Yes! Or one dressed normally and the other wearing a red jumpsuit with gold scissors. And they mirror each others actions but the clone twin is clearly evil & pretends to try to kill their counterpart throughout the night lol
Don’t get these kids beat tf up I’m not about to play wit y’all lol
Not a twin, but I ordered tan driving gloves and a red work suit already.
HistoricLife where did you order the work suit from? I’ve been looking. A group of my friends are going as the tethered for Halloween.
@@bkimballerina I found mine on Amazon. Just google red coveralls. Look at the details when picking a pair. They did not have visible trimming at the pockets and small turned down collars. You will likely need to shorten them as they were all high water fits on the legs in the movie.
I actually felt bad for her doppelgänger, which is surprising since she was the only one that made me scared for the movie initially
fake Adelaide STOLE the real Adelaide's life,...it's basically the whole plot of the movie.
in the cinema at the scene where the twist (the switch) is finally shown, I started to feel sympathetic towards the real Adelaide.
Reckoning No, the tethered were also humans.
The doppelgänger were made into monster from livening in the tunnel eating rabbits then wanted to free then selfs (they kill there surface counterpart to be free) sad but still makes them dangerous
The score during the final fight scene between Red and Adelaide is titled “Pas De Deux.” A ballet term of a dance duet between two dancers, symbolising their tether.
on the beach she says she has a hard time speaking...because she had to learn how to speak
Scott Jay I was thinking that right after the movie, thank you
I'm actually pretty sure that she can't talk because at the end of the movie it shows "red" getting choked and it like broke something in her neck making it hard for her to speak
Nope Red is the real mom she got choked my the fake and she doesn’t remember any of the shit because her parents thought she was weird and couldn’t talk and got her therapy but the whole time it was the underground doppelgänger
@@elliotlangley4459 The ending totally made the movie and I loved the part when Red did that little smile and bam.. it all makes sense.
@@elliotlangley4459 i was thinking about this too after watching the movie at the cinema.
- the fake Adelaide repressed the memory of the switch and convinced herself she is the REAL Adelaide. As an adult, married to Gabe, she completely forgets she is the clone because she never got the treatment.
- the real child Adelaide KNEW ALL ALONG she is the real one, decided to get revenge on fake Adelaide via the rebellion...
The place where Adelaide goes into (the hall of mirrors place where she is abducted) has a sign that says "find yourself" referencing the fact that she literally finds herself in there both in the beginning and the end
Moto Moto this was too obvious to be considered an Easter egg or small detail. I think everyone that watched the movie realized thag
The dual meaning of it is the fact that LIFE is each human’s journey to find oneself.
Perhaps not an 🐣, per se, but certainly worth mentioning for the part of it that many have seemed to miss; particularly youth, who have yet it find themselves. Peele, like any great writer, loves duality.
@@pokerbuddy62 you'd be surprised how many people don't understand basic things like that. There's a narrative surrounding this movie that it's incredibly confusing. One of my friends is so stupid that she thought the final scene revealed that the tethered jumped into young adelaide's body and possessed her.
No shit
Moto Moto woah really. Is that what is was referencing?!
I think the biggest clue to the twist was in the beginning of the film Adelaide always had something red, but as soon as the mirror scene ended, you never see her wear red again. Then the clones all are wearing red? Nice job, Peele!
Grayson’sMyName They’re not clones, just copies
Everything Adelaide hates red loves and everything she enjoys red hates
They're doing T-pose to show utter dominance lol.
Anh Tiên oof
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I thought that the whole time
bruh fr when that dude was just standing there when the blood was dripping down his finger i was like go and t-pose with him godammit
Omg that's what I thought watching the movie 😂
one thing i noticed was that when adelaide tells zora she can do whatever she puts her mind to, zora says she wants to drive on the trip. and she ends up doing exactly that.
another thing was that zora does track and field, and gabe tells her that running on the sand will help her be a better runner. her tether gives zora a huge head start at the beginning because she’s able to run amazingly fast and catch up to her in literally no time
oh yes another reference. privileged people have a head start compared to under-priv but when they do get a chance they out run/out show the privileged with a head start.
Another masterpiece...Peele's here to stay!
you can tell the main character's twin was switched from the first time she spoke cause she was the only one who knew how to speak English
But her english was broken and really bad, so I assumed they all spoke english a little, just really badly like her.
But you never once heard any other tethered speak English periodt
Cameron Perez Periodt no tampon 🥵
omfg thats true!!! wow how didnt i peep that none of the others talk
her english was broken due to the fake adelaide choking her when she was a child
When Adelaide went down the tunnels I was just thinking of her going down the rabbit hole
The subtitles at the beginning certainly helped with the whole Alice in Wonderland vibe.
Not to mention the actual rabbit hole--and the White Rabbits.
I definitely could feel a bandersnatch or a Jabberwock waiting in the darkness of that hall of mirrors.
@@setibamrahk Definitely, and we all know Alice in Wonderland is full of dual meanings and mirrored concepts/images
Red also said "we're all mad here" !!
Me too
Same. There should be a whole conspiracy theory based on that alone
How'd they get all the scissors and jumpsuits, Red just call Amazon?
Probably yes
The tethered aren't insane by nature. They're insane because they grow up underground like rats and don't even know how to speak. The real adelaide became an actual tethered just by living in tjeir conditions while the tethered got to be mostly normal just by living in the surface. My point being thr thered aren't their own species you can make halves with
They were left by the sciencists that used to work there and also the rabbits
Pretty much
Tethamazon
MIGHT BE A STRETCH HERE... BUT THESE ARE THE LYRICS TO THRILLER... I THINK IT MATCHES WELL WITH THE MOVIE TOO....
It's close to midnight (11:11)
Something evil's lurking from the dark
Under the moonlight
You see a sight that almost stops your heart
You try to scream
But terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze
As horror looks you right between your eyes
You're paralyzed
That's a wonderful insight I was replaying that scene when the doppelgangers were standing in the driveway under the moonlight and then once the family had seen that they were identical 2 them they were completely stuck in a dazed
I thought 11.11 was a bible verse where god wanted to destroy humans in Babylon
Yooooo. Wow. "Terror takes the sound before you make it"... When Addie is in the fun house and sees her doppelganger and starts to scream but before she does, the doppelganger chokes her out. Sheesh....... 😮
Tay Oh...Dude, I totally missed that....awesome catch!
Tay Oh this is amazing. I was trying to find the connection between thriller & the tethered in the movie
Lupita was off beat with Jason in the car. But the copy Jason was on beat before he caught fire.
How can you tell if he was on beat if there was no music
Hacienda Leifi normal jason had no rhythm but burnt face jason did
How did Jason manipulate Pluto to back into the flames then? I don't think Jason was ever switched, but the fact that his mom is technically a tethered means the boys could both be half tethered and perhaps they then share control over the one soul that dictates both bodies? Edit: I know you didn't say anything about Jason being switched, but I figured that's where you were going with it lol.
Both Jason's are half-breeds. They are both half tether and half human. So for the most part they are identical genetically. One has a tethered father and one has a human father.
Zach L as you know , the red mom was the fake one , and the “normal “ one was the real tethered one , that’s why why burnt face Jason burned in the fire , the “real” mother got really sad
When Adelaide was looking out of the window, recalling her childhood experience to her husband she could not find the words to speak. So she started to tendu`(or practice her dance positions) because her parents had connecting dance lessons to communication.
Hands across America was a reference? It was literally the plot of the film
Jordan peel a legit genius.
In the beginning at the beach when the twins asked Jason what he is building(with the sand) he said tunnel....
Jason was swapped
A little detail a lot of people might have missed is the reference in the song “I got 5 on it”
It is foreshadowing putting half down....!
Nice, Matthews Enterprises! 👌🏿
nah I think u thought too deep into that lol
@@wanda01141 the whole point of this movie is to dig too deep, fym
I was waiting for someone to explain that
Forgot when Jason ate the fruitloops the same as Rose in Get Out
???
When was this?
When they were in the house
Oh ya!!! Good catch👍🏽
Wait... weren't they MnMs? :/
Not sure if anyone else noticed but when it was flipping between the carnival scene in the real world and the tethered world it showed 2 people playing rock paper scissors.
In the normal world they played it normally; beat you fist 3 times and then pick an object. In the tethered world they played it; object, beat 3 times and then stop at a closed fist.
Additionally the song the girl was whistling in the hall of mirrors was reveresed by her tetherred part.
Might need to rewatch but in the carnival scene I'm pretty sure that the people eating looked like they were pulling food out of their mouths and replacing it on the plate.
That might even be another philosophical reference. "As above so below"
@@lj9759 good catch!!
I’ve probably watched 25 videos and NOBODY is going to mention or explain why Jason’s doppelgänger “Pluto” acted like a dog? 🤷🏾♀️
Macgirl84 yep. I’ve been waiting on that one as well
At first I thought he was mimicking a dog, yet there were no other references to a dog. Then I thought maybe he was mimicking a rabbit. Idk
Pluto is the name of the Disney dog
Pluto is also the Roman god of the underworld
Likely bc the mask the “real” Jason wore was animalistic.
I also thought that it was really interesting how Adelaide and Red were connected, and how Adelaide coincidentally decided to go into the mirror house. It’s understood that the doppelgängers below the earth copy the movements of the people from above, and I thought it was interesting how Adelaide might’ve caused the interaction with Red by prompting her to meet where the underground is connected to the world above through the mirror house. I guess that’s also why “find yourself” is outside the mirror house and that it literally means you can find your doppelgänger by leading them to a connection between both worlds. I also thought it was cool how Red always walked as if she was in a ballet recital, her feet always placed at first position and walking in perpendicular lines. Also, it was interesting how Red’s voice was practically ruined because of how she was choked when the fake Adelaide met her in the mirror house. I really love how fluid Peele’s films are as he manages to connect the plot through little Easter eggs in the film.
Why was adelaide not being controlled the entire time she was above. Like when they switched at kids the doppleganger was now free but she wasnt being controlled by the REAL adelaide. Why is that?
@@marieochoa268 Someone theorized it was because the Tethered were failures originally meant to be used as mind control. Adelaide was by chance born as the first successful Tethered that was able to control their non-cloned counterpart instead of the other way around ("We were born special."").
Because they are abandoned and unwatched, she simply switched places with the real Adelaide she was controlling because she was able to.
This got me scared of my shadow 😭
HiCity Jay You bussy.
Naw wassup
My theory: the film is also about imposter syndrome. Finally rising from where you were at and then paranoid you dont belong or worse you’ll lose it all. Peele perhaps felt this after the success of GET OUT.
Adelaide rose from
The depths, got a family and is paranoid one day her past will come back to take it all away.
Impostor syndrome (also known as impostor phenomenon, impostorism, fraud syndrome or the impostor experience) is a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a "fraud".
Reaching. Its about classism, how the upper class wants to keep the lower class down
water melon I think that this movie involves all these meanings.
@@sleepiestboi4631 In which cast it's an incredibly reactionary and conservative film that depicts the lower classes a sub-literate murderers incapable of rational thought. A real classy message here.
The boys name is Jason (Friday 13th) and wears a white mask (Michale Myers) And has a burnt face (Freddy Kruger).
Maybe dumb theory but i think Jason wears his mask everytime when he encounters/faces with Tethered. In the ending scene he wears his mask when he is looking at Adelaide (which is tethered clone)
Na, She smiles at him to cover up her suspicion, metaphorically "putting on a mask" for others. So Jason, does the same in a literal sense. Jason might know but he for sure has an off feeling about his mom
I don't think it's a dumb theory. I noticed that he wore it when he had to kill (when he went to the white family house). My interpretation was that he wore the mask when he was faced with something difficult that he didn't want to do but felt he had to. Like kill the tethers/keep his moms secret.
Definitely not a dumb theory I completely agree
@@chrisguy98TM nah dude u so wrong...
If it's true .. then what about red ( tethered mother) crying for pluto when he was going in the fire ? Why was she saying " stop stop " . The jason is switched . Jason is himself a clone. And the real jason died in the flames.
@@tetrazone8487 Red is not tethered, she is the real Adelaide and the tethered Jason had his face burnt so there's no way he could've been switched without us or the characters noticing.
ok literally nobody is gonna get the reference but I kept giggling when they were yelling "JASON" over and over cuz it reminded me of heavy rain when the son Jason disappeared and the father walked around for like an hour going "JASON"
press x to jason!
Same!! That’s all I could think of when they yelled Jason 😂
wasn't it Shawn tho ?
@@laituefeodale jason in the beginning, shawn in the end
Yes!! That's exactly what I thought and started laughing. My friend didnt get it.
she also wasn’t on beat snapping to I got 5 on it😬i was questioning that in the movies😂
Ashley Raikes Actually I broke that down and she was on beat, a lot of people get that part confused but the tempo of the song and her snapping fits with it.
It was on purpose since the Adelaide in the car was actually the tethered Adelaide who didn't know how to dance or keep a beat. Sorry if I'm not clear. There is a video on insider that talks about it.
Bella Wilson She learned how to dance. She was the one one stage in a Tutu
I thought the scissors were meant that they are cutting there tether to the real person
I mean both, probably. I think Jordan used scissors to indicate cutting the tether, but also as an ironic symbol because to use scissors you need two pieces to work together to execute the action of cutting something. the same way the tethered are connected to their other yet separate. if that makes sense.
The teetered family are stereotypes of the real family. Dad super macho and strong. Black boy is an animal who needs to be controlled. Black girl is cold, strangely missing a hairline with relaxed hair , athletic and finds everything a joke.
Chatty Ashley yes! i was trying to explain that earlier to my friend!
Chatty Ashley I hate when people try to make this movie seem like more than what it was but I really like your theory. Very nice I wouldn’t have seen it that way but your definitely right with this one.
Their names are Jason and zora
Sailor MoonStone why do you hate it? It’s not even that serious lol
I thought the tethered family represented their souls and were trying to survive against their egos/the people we view as normal. The tethered people repped oneness and peace but weren't given the chance to flourish, and got caged in early childhood. The tethered were the elements at their core - The boy was fire, the girl was air (running/track, always jokes like air signs do), dad was water (always wanted to be on the water/go to the beach) and mom is earth (Mother Earth/ she was running the underground area beneath the earth). And the non-tethered girl had relaxed hair too tho.
Doesn't that mean the kids are half tethered/genuine?...
Yeah, which would explain Jason's "strangeness"
They have the same DNA it's just the tethered lacked a soul and a mind
It's not that big if a difference between the two
No. The tethered are human
Which explains why the daughter can’t run fast and the son can’t create fire but the tethered kids excel in those things
@@TruBeauty15 BUT, Red is bad at dancing and Adelaide is good at dancing. So real sucks and tethered is good ?
Remember that when the child Adelaide was taken hostage and replaced, her intellectual growth paused there and then. She lived the rest of her life underground taking with her whatever education and knowledge she grasped of the world by 1986. Everything about her plan is inspired by the 80s, hence the hands across America commercial for the homeless.
All the slasher/horror movies she pays tribute to, including MJ's one glove/Thriller, were pre-1986. I think that even Pluto acts like a dog like Disney Pluto coz child Adelaide watched cartoons. Which also reminds me of the feral child in Mad Max 2.
Damn, I love that little Goonies Easter egg. Adored that movie since I was a kid, so glad it got a little nod in Us.
Lost boys reference there too
Watched it tonight, good film! :)
Same!
6/10
@@ceaser8999 10/10 ending was a 6/10
Solveig Elisabeth Henne I just woke up from a nightmare and watched this it looks so freaky
I called the twists 15 min in
Am I the only one that thinks the guy holding the sign was the first to be switched ... anyone?
Yup
His other self was on the beach holding out his hands for the other teathers to join
Not switched, but killed
He was the first person to be killed by a theathe.
He was the first one, sure.
You forgot the Jerimiah 11:11 and 11:11. 11:11 means synchrobization or coincidence which happened a lot in the movie. Synchronization is when Jason can control his doppelganger and coincidence happens when the frisbee exactly fits to the circle and also the twins.
Did you understand why Jason was able to control his doppelgänger during the fire scene? I'm not really understanding why he could but others couldn't.
Or coincidence like many directors can only have one great film, his second attempt was pretty mediocre
@@luckyy13 the doppelganger tend to do what their real one do. Maybe in Jason's case, his doppelganger is way too young to think and do things for himself just like the young adelaine do that's the reason why she and Red met at the hall of mirrors.
@@2dannnyboy i dont think so maybe its just your opinion and ill respect it.
luckyyy13 - Hmmm, I was wondering the same thing. My theory is: Jason and his doppelgänger switched places at some point and maybe that’s why he’s able to control him. Toward the end of the movie, it seems to me like he realized at some point that his mother also switched bodies. She gave him a look, as in, “I know”.
Does anyone else have any theories about Jason/Pluto?
*Black Panther turn to dust
M’Baku to Nakia on bed: Heyyyyyy
THIS
Also, when Adelaide first enters the house of mirrors, it’s called Vision Quest with a Native American man on top. Later it’s changed to a white Wizard character and it’s called Merlin’s Forest. Perhaps a message about whitewashing/Native American genocide?
The man with two brains is literally the plot for "Get Out".
🙋🏽Errrrr excuse me @Looper! @2:40 Red is not evil! She is actually the victim in all this!
Cannon Ball in a sense. She still led a mass genocide 🤷🏽♀️
It seems like environment is what makes people good or bad. Red (the 'original,' I mean) starts off normal but becomes bad, whereas Adiaide(sp?) starts off (presumably) evil but comes normal/good. Red does instigate murdering millions of people after all!
Maybe a theme is that we all have good and bad in us, but certain things (environment) can bring one or the other out.
I think the only reason the tethered did the hands across America thing is because when Adelaide went into the shaman hut thing on the beach and sees her doppelgänger she switches right (we figure that out in the end) so the real her is underground with the tethered and one of her last memory’s of the surface world is hands across America soooooo since she probably wanted to see it, she made all the tethered do it while getting a bit of revenge when she came out 🤰
Dorian Colpitts !!! Yessss
Cool...but what’s with the pregnant emoji
Tomatohead it’s my trademark ™️
Okay, but...why?
They literally explained this in the final fight with red vs Adelaide. The real addy, referred to as red, explained that she wanted to lead them to the surface and let the work know they are here. The shirt for hands across America was inspiring enough for her to use as a statement.
Just saw Us last night. It was a weird and neat movie. It really makes you think and ask a lot of questions. There are so many themes, details and plenty of symbolism (many of which I am still processing) that can keep you watching this movie multiple times. It does take an open and mature mind to appreciate the movie, but I recommend it. ✂️🤝👫👬👭👬👭👫👬👭👫👭👫👬🐇
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I loved this movie, you have to watch it twice to understand it good, I love how tricky and confusing is until you get it makes sense
Remember how in the movie it played f the police. F the police coming straight from the “underground” the underground is where the tethered come from. My cousin and I thought of this.
Quite intriguing why Peele chose that song out of millions.
the girl in the beginning playing rock paper scissors was the same actress from moonrise kingdom, who if you remember, stabbed Lucas Hedges with a pair of left scissors
Teon Quant omg i just realized that they were playing rock paper SCISSORS and they kept both throwing up scissors while they were playing 🤦🏻♀️
@@GigiMroz when were they playing rock paper scissors? i'm not able to remember!!
Rehant Singh when adelaide first wanders off in the cold open
Oh damn, that was Kara Hayward! Her characters' names are listed as Nancy/Syd
So many references! And you don't realise it when you're watching the movie because it's so beautifully put together.... Alice in Wonderland reference (with the rabbits...) Jason (with the mask and the little kid's name being "Jason")... etc. WELL DONE.
The greatest jump scene of all time was in Pee Wees Great Adventure in the truck with Large Marge.
Dr. DewSumn agree!!
Omg omg omg. Yes!!! I’ve always been afraid of that part lol. First: excited that Pee Wee got a ride Second: Driving on the road Third: Large Marge Screams and Hair Flies up and eyes pop out Fourth: I scream and pee myself fifth: I laugh at myself 😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹
Does anyone know what Red was mumbling to Adelaide after she slapped her, threw her in the desk and stabbed her in the final fight?
Vidlord I’ve also noticed that and I’m curious too lol
Idk but hopefully we can listen again when the clips come out
Video was made 53 minutes ago awesome. The movie was crazy + intense
The announcer in the mirror house. That must be Peele.
"A tethered link across Santa Cruz, maybe across the country for all we know..." Uh.... did you not see the ending? The hands linking went wayyyyy beyond Santa Cruz.
the narrator probably.......didn't watch the movie.
at the end right before the ending credits we are shown a LOT of hills and mountains NOWHERE near the beach...
Where do the Tethered go after this? Back to the underground?
"But really the biggest question is: where did they get all the red outfits, gloves and scissors if they've been underground this whole time?"
Cebuana7 red placed an order on amazon cause she got amazon prime lol
Tasha Monique hhhhhhhhhh
Their in a cloning facility.
The equipment and clothing were left by researchers and doctors from the previous experiment that failed.
@@royaldestiny that's a dumb theory.
As I learned from Insider, the holding hands could be symbolized to the unification of the clones as they had successfully taken over the area. When the Red family is first seen, they're holding hands while the other family isn't listening to each other; they're scattered and doing what they believe is best. The first time you see the mirror motif is also when the two dad's face off. Red dad is obedient to the mom and pushes through the door, while the other dad is the dominant one but fails to keep the door shut.
Fun Easter egg: Zora’s hoodie spelled Thỏ which means “rabbit” in Vietnamese
she also wears rabbit t-shirt
Fun fact: Every human in the Santa Cruz is dead by the end of the movie (except for the husband). The mother and children are alive but they don't qualify as human since the mom is Tethered and the children are half breads. (Half tethered half human)
Juggy isnt the whole point that the tethered are also human, just living in such a shitty situation that they lost their minds
@@benschmitt7035 no, they also don't have a "real" soul because it was only possible to clone the body
@@Cebuana7 I think the point of the soul talk wasn't to say the tethered are soul-less, but they mimic the normal people because of their shared soul
that wa the point in killing the above ground doppelganger, to release the soul into the tethered host. When Red was killed you saw Adelaide take it on.
It was said that every pair is 2 bodies 1 soul.
Also, the ending of the Thriller music video has the same ending as the movie.
*Plot twist: they all get eaten by rabbits.*
Well, that's no ordinary rabbits! That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodents you ever set eyes on!
Those rabbits have got a vicious streak mile wide
All of the tethered start banging like rabbits
I was shocked when that happened.
Lmao
Giant rabbits
So many theories with no clear resolution is what makes this movie so great
No that makes it worse.
anybody could construct a mysterious plot if he doesnt have to give explanations for anything..lol
Frank N. Stein yeah 👌🏿 keep hating
That's because the movie isn't great. It's a bunch of stupid nonsense thrown together and everyone thinks they're a genius for figuring it out.
@@Danycuraj literally, I agree with you so much
Why did it take me so long to figure out that Pluto's face got burned from Jason's magic trick (in the Tethered world?)
Red wasn't evil. She had her life stolen. She was understandably vengeful.
Frrr
I could never understand how directors even have the time to think about Easter eggs, let alone as complicated as this.
Just think of filming a movie, how complicated it is... writing the script, getting the actors, shooting the scenes..... and above all - making these Easter eggs which who knows if anyone would even notice? HATS OFF!
this plot and twist ending is the result of when a genius has crazy shower thoughts
At the end of the "Thriller" music video, Michael Jackson is actually the dopelganger. Similar to adelaid's twist ending. The shirt she was wearing as a child had a picture of the iconic music video.
US is a metaphor for the U.S. It's even in the title.
ThaSkully this is a reach lol
@@MadMaddiii how? The movie is literally a metaphor about the upper and lower class America as referenced in several scenes...
@@Skully interesting... could you elaborate?
Have and have nots
Fernanda Montano is not 😂 literally everyone knows this
The girl was as fast as a rabid and the shadow boy hopped like one 🤯🤯
1) Jason got switched so the boy at the end was the tethered Jason not the real one. Also, tethered Jason killed his Grandmother so his silence would be justified.
2) Lupita's character struggled to talk because the tethered don't speak and she hadn't been able to talk to someone in 30years.
3) Lupita's character (The evil One we thought was good) foreshadowed she was evil by constantly making that noise that the rest of them made everytime she killed someone.
4) Evil Jason was good Jason which is why he was the only one who could light the fire.
jason wouldn't be able to speak English so perfect if he had been switched
Red only struggled to talk because she had her throat choked by the original Red when she was young. Adult Red was young Adelaide switched as a child. She had her larynx damaged. The rest of the Tethered never learned language so that's why they all make vocalizations instead of words.
@@justintucker331 exactly so they wouldnt learn perfect english in a year
Nope. Real Jason was the one who could control Pluto and he made him walk into the fire. No switch for Jason.
This is another reason as to why the mother was crying when the red Jason walked back into the fire because she knew that was her real son.
wow.....Ive never been this scared of photos from a movie in my life
also the melanin is poppin in this movie...I like it. Gotta watch this shyt some time.
I feel like Jordan Peele is making fun of Hands Across America. He has a great sense of humor.
was i brainwashed during the movie? WHY COULDN´T I SEE THOSE HIDDEN MESSAGES GOD DAMN
😂🤣😂🤣
Garden Tulipan I think we just went to see a movie. I was thinking the same thing, am I that different, not deep? I had quesrions, but these theories are serious. They saw all this.....I'm foing tonwatch it again with this in mind😁
There are so many things that can be analyzed in this movie that you'd have to watch it a second time to fully grasp it.
Exactly 😭😂
Calm down. That's normal. But I recommend you look all details on the next time you go to a theater, the experience is much better when you get the things while watching.
Wait, Jason wears a mask
Like Jason
Jason Vorhees
Freddy
That's not a reference lmao
Keaton Quinlan it’s no accident that Jason wears a mask like Jason, and they’re both horror movies. If you think that’s an accident, you are the biggest buzzkill in human history. This movie is full of Easter eggs referencing old movies and commercials and music. Unless you can prove it WAS an accident, then I’m a firm believer that everyone’s name was picked out intentionally with real thought behind it. Pluto, Jason’s double, is named after the dwarf planet being the furtherest from the sun, so Pluto is always in darkness. Just like the tethered people. The Daughter’s double is named Umbrae. The plural of umbra, the fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object. The names are not coincidental. Stop trying to ruin everything for people. If you aren’t here to bask in the levels of references and hidden meanings in this movie, then get out. (and yes, that was a reference to Jordan Peele’s previous hit horror movie before you act like it was a coincidence.)
That’s good logic
I loved the bright red candy apple going from right side up to upside down on the sand right before Adelaide and Red’s experience. Really beautiful symbolism.
And it was RED one of the reddish apples I ever seen in my life
How do you think a candy apple is supposed to land when dropped onto sand?! Standing on the stick!? Jesus, everything is not meant to be symbolism. SMH
Crap now that I think about it, why did she drop it? Lmao. Damn you Peele!
I thought the candy apple ,represent her heart/soul...she dropped it before she entered.
@@JohnSmith-qj6bj lmao
So did anyone else catch it at the end and realize the mom was a clone? She didn't have PTSD from getting lost she had it from being underground. That's why only the mom could talk when it came to the clones. She was born above ground
IAmMeMyra we all caught that 😂😂
no youre literally the only one
@@ninasimone7197 I was excited when I worked it out... all you guys are bullies lmfao
foreshadowing when the family ( and their shadows) are filmed from birds eye view as they walk on beach in a single file line to meet their friends is one thing i didnt recognize at first
Now I completely believe Jason(the son) is a clone. Let me explain...
In the beginning they mention that someone died the year before(I think it was the grandma) and Gabriel(the dad) said that Jason had a hard time dealing with it. We can assume that this meant he wasn’t speaking. When the family member died, Jason’s clone took his place. Since the same thing happened with Adelaide she knew what was going on and she taught the clone how to speak and act. We don’t know exactly how long it took clone Adelaide or clone Jason to learn to speak but Jason was very smart throughout the movie so he could’ve been able to act “normally” within the year it took before they went back to Santa Cruz. We also know that Jason is portrayed as being very weird and distracted since his sister is constantly saying it. Jason says words throughout the movie which make make his family ask “where did you learn that from”. Another compelling example is when the “clones” are outside the house and Gabe says “go get the bat”. The sister runs to get the bat while Jason asks “what bat”. If the rest of his family knows that they have a bat in the house, why wouldn’t Jason.... unless he’s the clone and he had only been with them since the previous summer.
“Well if Pluto “clone Jason” is actually real Jason, why can’t he talk?”
We see that Pluto has burns on his face. That paired with his fascination with fire can conclude that he was in an accident that mangled his face and vocal chords. It probably had mental effects on him that caused him to act the way he does in the film.
Nope. Adelaide had herself shut off her memories of the switch. She couldn’t have taught Jason how to speak, without the dad and Sister not knowing it. They are a close knit family.
Was Pluto's face burnt because the lighter trick worked underground, Jason kept trying it near his face above ground, and Pluto had to copy all of Jason's movements? Or did Pluto just like fire?
I think it worked underground. The tethered seemed to excel whilst everyone overground shrugged off their talents. Like Zora wanted to stop track and the boy couldn't hack the magic trick.
ladymusiclover Righttttttt that’s why underground Zora was super fast and gave real Zora a head start 🤯
Saw the movie and it had allot of hidden messages but I will definitely have to watch it again it was allot going on in this movie. But it all makes sense now.
This is how you spell a lot. A... Lot... Lol
I don't know, but Jordan Peele is kinda banging on these Horror movies. they are all epic and have this deep story.
My theory is that there were more clones that switched out their people because the mirror house is pretty much the center spot that is made for this too have happened. Others who went into the mirror house may have been switched which no one could know because of course they wouldn’t say anything about it just like adalades clone
you may be right..
considering......how EASY it was for clone child Adelaide to find her way out of the underground and "abduct" the real Adelaide.
many people who've seen the movie theorize Jason and Pluto were also switched.
Things You Missed: College men from HOWARD are not physically tuff! 💪🏾 lol..Jk
He had the highest kill count though🤷🏾♂️
DJ 123 he also didn’t know how a flare gun works
@@callmejay05 At least he knew how to swim. lol
@@FlasRoose same thought! He and Abraham are great swimmers 😆
I.think his size.handicaps him
another thing: The Howard shirt from the Dad is a nod to his Black Panther lead frd - Chadwick Boseman, who’s graduated from Howard University
Scofield Lok it’s a nod to Howard University and HBCU’s in general
I loved this movie, especially with the whole underground mimicking premise, really reminded me of Plato's Allegory of The Cave when we learned about its relevance back in AP Lit. 10/10 recommend this movie, it's an absolute masterpiece.
There is one more easter egg I notice: the word printed on the daughter's green shirt - THỎ - literally means RABBIT in Vietnamese.
just curious - why was Vietnamese written on her shirt..?
oh is it because if you like literally put " RABBIT" on the shirt it's really dumb...and even a picture of a rabbit would be obvious.
I was more confused as of why the real mom just didn’t say she was the real Adelaide. Orrrrr how was the fake mom able to bear children?? Idk I was just confused when they showed her kidnapping the real mom. Which explains why she was silent for so long.. she couldn’t speak there language..
This movie IS BRILLIANT!!! If Jordan Peele paid tribute to 80’s culture, gave social message, and he is making his audience think. Future filmmaker better STEP IT up
Am I the only one who noticed when the Wilsons first meet their tethered selves, Jason is the one who says "It's us".....as if he already knew what was going on without being told? I just found that so interesting.
I think the rabbit imagery connects to going through a rabbit hole, connecting to wonderland
The movie was clear and got me thinking and that's all I need 8/10
If it was so clear, explain something to me. So the shadow people/the tethered imitate what the real life version of them are doing, correct? So if Adeline was switched in 1986 when she was a child, why was SHE imitating what Red (the REAL tethered) was doing in the real world? When the fake Adeline was dancing up above, the real Adeline was dancing underneath. Why was she imitating her if she was the real Adeline. The shadow Adeline should have been imitating the real Adeline the entire time. Also, if the Adeline’s switched at a young age, the fake Adeline is all the kids and the husband would know their whole life. So at the end when they are driving away and we find out about the switch, why was Jason (her son) looking at her weird like that’s not his mom? That’s the same mother that he’s been with his whole life. She literally gave birth to him and raised him. Nothing is different in that respect. Why would he look at his mom like a stranger? It’s still the same her. Also also, why didn’t Adeline leave the underworld when she got out of her handcuffs? Why did she stay and drive herself crazy? This one can probably be explained, but it wasn’t explained in the movie. I know she’s a child, but if I were handcuffed in a strange place, my whole life would be dedicated to getting back to my life and family. As a child, that probably isn’t possible, but as I got older, I would eventually just go up the elevator and leave through the house of mirrors. Why in the world would she stay for 30 years? Nobody was stopping her from leaving? Also also also, who un handcuffed her? Fake Adeline just left her. Nobody there had a key, and none of them were even smart enough to un-handcuff someone. They all grew up in this blank underground place with no basic education or knowledge of language. Also also also also, why did the real Adeline act like the tethered people. Why did she ask the fake Adeline, “What did it feel like to grow up with a Sky...?” She grew up with a real sky. She was familiar with it lol just not all her life. But the whole movie, the real Adeline acted like SHE was the shadow. Even in her story that she was telling the family before they split them up, she spoke like she was just an experiment, and that she had never seen the real world. At one point, she said, “That encounter with you got me thinking. Why didn’t you take me with you?” And that question doesn’t really make much sense after knowing that she isn’t actually the fake Adeline. It would make sense if what the real story that Adeline told, happened. But it doesn’t really sound like something someone would say after being swapped. A more realistic question would be, “Why did you switch our lives? We could have lived together.” Or something. The entire time, the dialogue between Adeline and Red doesn’t seem like a dialogue between two people who were swapped. It feels like dialogue between two people who have only met each other once, and both of them went back to their normal lives like nothing happened. Also also also also also, why was Jason the only one that was able to control his double? This isn’t much of a complaint, and it definitely didn’t bother me throughout the movie, but I feel like that should have been explained or something. I don’t know why the tethered mimic their real world counterparts, except for when they are killing people? I guess I don’t understand the whole tethered part. How, why, and when did they mimic their real world counterparts? It seemed inconsistent. Between scenes AND through characters like in the case of Jason.
I loved this movie, and I’m not even complaining about my dumb perspectives of these “plot holes,” but these are all questions I had when I found out about the switch. TBH, I guessed that they were switched when they were at the therapist, and her mom said, “We just want our daughter back...” that was the moment I guessed that they were switched. But then Adeline told her husband the story of what happened, and she visibly seemed shaken up about it, so I assumed that they weren’t switched. And all of these minute and subtle details made me believe that the switch never happened. Especially the dialogue between the two. Then, when they reveal the switch, it made me think back to all those little details, and it made the switch seem odd to me. It just didn’t make sense, and it raised more questions than it did explaining things. But I don’t know. Maybe I’m nuts lol
@@PtylerBeats Nope, you're not nuts. The movie made no sense whatsoever. It was a great concept that just wasn't thoroughly thoughtout. I really don't get why people like it so much, it was one of the dumbest movies i've seen in a long time, and that's saying a lot...
@@PtylerBeats I think some of your questions are really interesting. On other hand, some of them can be responded if you think a little more. For example, Jason didnt look at his mother in a strange way because he thinks she's not his mother. Actually, he looked his mother in a strange way because he knows she switched with the real Adelaide. Jason was acting just like the audience while watching the movie. I think it was a way that Peele found to show us that her secret wasn't totally safe.
Tyler Grant I heard the people on top control the people on the bottom, even if the (fake) is one top. That’s why the (real) one told the (fake) if it wasn’t for her she wouldn’t have learned how to dance, so I guess it’s true.
She asked “what did it feel to grow up with a sky?” Bc she stole her live and technically didn’t grow up with a sky her whole life.
At the end Jason it’s looking at his mother weird because the (real)one told him the truth. That they switched as kids and his mother is the (fake).
I thought the Jaws shirt was there because Peele loved that movie. I didn’t think there was any deep meaning to it, like mentioned in the video
I think the biggest message is that we're our own worst enemy. That's why when Adelaide was trying to attack Red, she was the one that kept getting hurt.
Oh wow!... I love the movie Lost Boys
Good movie.A little confusing.Very conspiracy inspired in my opinion.But definitely worth the watch
Wasn’t confusing the one switch in the movie just made everybody question everything vs the switch it self like what sane parent would let their youngest play with lighters .. why she was reading a book with no words in it ..if she was scared about goin to the beach .. why not insist of flying somewhere else .. why husband the only one who was friends with the white couple n how distant Adelaide n the kids were to them ..how she locked her self to the leg of the table but couldn’t lift the table to get loose
Clubber Lang What?! Lol your saying it’s not confusing but your asking questions? That doesn’t make any sense😒and those questions you just listed wasn’t what made me confused.not even close lol
Smoking The Galaxy jus speaking in general ppl didn’t focus on the primary character n her actions after the switch .. they started questioning T-shirt’s burns etc
Seeing these comments for my first time 2yrs later because someone puts the alphabet wow lol well thank you all for the opinions. I barely even remember the movie now lol
Jordan Peele has definitely become my hero to the horror genre. From start to finish, the movie is loaded with surprises, hidden gems, religious allegory n another creepy but hella original, opening theme, lol. I thought Sikiliza Kwa Wahenga was eerie enough but M. Abels KILLED it with Anthem. Eerie but something to nod ur head to - Bananas, lol!! Fantastic sophomore film n I anxiously look forward to future projects from Mr. Peele indeed
The same scissors used in the surgery scene in GET OUT is the one from US
when the boys are in the closet, there are some board games behind them and one is called “MAGIC” it is also the only box placed upside-down. 🔮✂️🔥🤔
If I'm remembering correctly, when "Mom" got out of the car to finish off the tethered daughter and found her hanging from the tree, the daughter reached out her hand to her, like she knew she was her true mother. And "Mom"s reaction of sympathy and pain clearly connoted that. I remember thinking that was strange as I watched it.
She was not her true Mother. She got switched as a little girl and she didn’t give birth to this girl. The Daughter sensed that this woman is also a tether, one who resembles her Mother.
@@kodhaivaradarajan2154 ok...that's precisely what I meant lol. They are bound as the true tethered mother-daughter counterparts.