Unfortunately, its due to the fact that we, Human Beings have the Willpower and Mental Capabilities to reach something beyond imaginable, horrifying it doesn't just mean progress in technology
Jordan Peele's and Guillermo del Toro's admiration for each other was on full display during the 2018 Oscars. In the wake of GDT's The Shape of Water, I see several parallels in Us, including: 1. The concept of respecting the needs of 'the other.' Themes of xenophobia, etc come into play 2. Giving voice to the voiceless, and taking it away from those who consciously silence others: *(SPOILER)* the Asset slicing through the voice box of Strickland near the conclusion of TSOW, and the numerous voice injuries sustained in Us (choking of Adelaide, and various scissor attacks to the necks of several characters). Other parallels include the expansion of the color red throughout both films, and the concept of altered perception of time in characters who aren't really part of the world in which they are living: TSOW protagonist Elisa was always late despite omnpresent clocks/calendars/punchclocks, and Adelaide had difficulty with rhythm when trying to snap her fingers to a song.
Is that why adelaine was freaking out when her son, she couldn't find him on the beach. She was worried/scared that his doppelganger was gonna do the same thing that she did decades ago. Woah!🙊
He already is a dobleganger. He was taken while at his grandmas house. (He probably killed her) Hes been speaking different and acting different. He was building sand tunnels on the beach. Thats why the other-mom treated the son like a dog. His rich "mom" could see it and was trying to communicate with him. To let him know she knew and would help him. Hes the only one who truly understands her. His real mom took him at the end before she was killed
@@aaliyahgibson1659 i mean. He was a completely different person. His whole family remarked about it the whole movie and every child he came across called him "weird"
@@loved1291 this theory does not hold up. the Tethered does not know how to speak english, that's why when fake adelaide took the original's place, she was not able to speak, and was diagnose as a symptom of her supposed PTSD. Jason and Zora are essentially half-breeds. While the Tethered just mimic their original's movement (and thus deemed a failed experiment, to which they were originally made to control the original), there's a theory that fake Adelaide is actually a successful one, and can control the original (which could explain why she wandered off), and that Jason inherited this gift from her mother and thus the reason why he could control Pluto.
@@thomasnewton8223 Black panther received praise too... It was even nominated lol. Nice try. US had glaring plotholes. It's a decent movie, but not even close to great. Peele made 1 great movie. That's the consensus.
I've only watched Us once and the line that stood out to me the most came from Red. Simply, "I don't understand why she couldn't take me with her..." It really hurts the more I think about it. Both girls could've lived happily on the surface but one girl took that option away. Why did she have to make someone else miserable just so she could be happy...?
TheCandymusiclover The way of life. Everyone can’t be happy one has to suffer in order for one to be happy. An ideology I’m still trying to piece together.
@@TyDaGreatest. Right. In the system of capitalism, particularly in the United States, success comes through supplying the demand for products, which are made via the labour of others. Obscene wealth in capitalism requires exploiting the people who provide that labour obscenely -- as seen with Amazon's Jeff Bezos. Your happiness literally comes at the cost of someone else's suffering. The point 'Us' makes is that this someone else who suffers in order for us to be happy is just like us -- they may as well be us.
it reminds me of the TV series “the handmaid’s tale.” one of the commanders who had a huge part in making the country of Gilead says something like how he just wanted things to be better, to be good. this obviously angers the protagonist, who is living a miserable, oppressed life, and the commander continues to say “Better never means better for everyone.” i think that’s a lot of people’s set ideas about society and inequality and a distribution of resources honestly. people think someone’s/a group of people’s comfort and lives have to be sacrificed for the general population to have it better (when that’s obviously not true imo).
@@GanDtech That theory is going around. Maybe the Tethered were phase 1 (or phase 2?) of the experiments, and that the Coagula/Sunken Place is the final phase.
"If you're privileged, and you're denying the rights of people who are unprivileged, you're denying your innate bond to the rest of your people." I literally had to pause the video for a moment because I started tearing up at that line. I've never heard that sentiment put to words so perfectly
Ashley Poenisch 85% of non-Hispanic interracial crimes feature a Black assailant and White victim. Jordan “I don’t cast White people for lead roles” Peele loves to talk about White privilege and racism but never points the finger inwards.
I haven't seen anyone talk about how Adelaide's clothing gets redder and redder as the movie progresses. Quite a bit to analyze there! Great work as usual, otherwise.
bkcpisme Everything i saw mentioned it at least in passing. But it’s an excellent visual. She’s becoming her true self again, she was hiding for all her life and no one noticed she didn’t belong but in the end she knew, i think that’s the reference they are hitting on when they discuss Adelaide’s memories come back slowly on who she truly is. She shouldn’t have had to steal a spot in a world and country she deserved.
4:11 I mean... I feel like you can tell. Adelaide turns to Jason and goes "Get in rhythm". Proceeds to click fingers off-rhythm. If you watched the trailers to see Adelaide being choked by the mirror girl, seeing *Red* as the one with the hoarse voice raises a giant flag. At the end, Adelaide goes down underneath the mirror room into the home of the tethered like she knows exactly where she is going. As she is dying, Red whistles the tune the *correct way round*, back when they were children, Adelaide sang the tune in reverse. Even without the explicit reveal at the end you can tell something is fishy! The first time I watched this, I was really upset when Red died. I thought that she would be the one to save all the untethered. What I like about this is that despite all that... Red acts like a tethered and Adelaide acts like an untethered. There is no "real" or "fake" version. They're both real. I also like how Jason's "other" wasn't inherently violent to begin with. He was a little feral, a little strange, but he never tried to harm Jason until he locked him in the cabinet. And Jason would never have locked him in, unless he was hinted to do so by Adelaide. Violence towards each other has to be taught.
that used to always bother me when she snapped off rhythm. ive written a paper about this film, seen it 5 times, & never put that together. thank you for pointing that out.
If you're on "Red's" side, it's a film where the hero loses and you know it. If you're on "Adelaide's" side, it's a film where the villain wins, and you dont know it. I cant decide which side I'm on, but figured I shouldn't.
@@RestorativeClarity agreed. Thats why I chose not to be on one side. It'd be interesting if Jordan Peele or someone else thought up the concept for both of them to "win" be it sequel or otherwise.
The fact is that both are victims. Adelaide of the system, Red of Adelaide. But they both CHOOSE to commit villainous acts. Everyone has a reason for their actions but reasons do not negate wrongdoings. So who you root for depends on how you weigh their actions. They are both victims and both villains, in someone's eyes at least.
@@luciddreams7540 Red Is the hero tbh. Even tho she started off privileged she got swapped & became disenfranchised forced to see life through their perspective Red realized the life they were living was meaningless, she got organized devised a plan and essentially became a voice for the "disenfranchised/ under privileged" struggles that were Never heard. *Literally*
Fuckbøi Mansøn It’s true Red is heroic to the Tethered. But she still ordered the genocide of every American citizen. That kind of makes her a villain to a lot of people. And it’s not even analogous to our U.S. where we’re complicit in being aware of the underprivileged. In her U.S., the people were oblivious and therefore completely innocent victims. So the only ones truly culpable were the government officials who created the Tethered. Like Killmonger from the leads’ other movie, right intention, wrong execution. She freed her people... by massacring innocents.
@@luciddreams7540 The movie is about the revolution of the disenfranchised against the franchised. Every revolution that involved the under privileged standing up always ended in blood shed so it's technically not wrong, Red & her people weren't gonna make it from down there by abiding by law enforcement would they? No
This movie was so snubbed for the Oscars. It should’ve been nominated for actress, score, direction and best picture in my opinion. Parasite has similar themes and it was nominated.
akshay satish perhaps (I don’t really agree with you) but even if you were right, weird abstract movies that don’t make sense get nominated all the time, like Birdman and that 1 even won so this masterpiece for sure should’ve been nominated.
Never be disgusted. Just walk upright and be on your best behavior and try not to harm others. That will show your beauty. I love you and don't even know you. Peace.
I like to imagine that the main guy from Get Out exist in this universe and right after he has gone through a traumatic experience with people trying to take over his body he has to deal with his clone. Just not being able to catch a break.
Jorden did say there are 4 more other movies to come. Maybe we will see all of them come together like Split and Glass. How Glass they all were in one.
The music playing during the ballet scene also reminds me of Swan Lake (also by Tchaikovsky). Depicting the good, innocent ‘White Swan’ Odette, and her evil doppelgänger Odelle the ‘Black Swan’
Adelaide having sympathy for the tethered dying kids is like a person growing up in the hood or trailer park then becoming successful but being sympathetic and angry of in justice shown on the news of lower class people. It's rare for anyone in higher class to sympathize and care about the 1 percent, Me Too movements, Black Lives Matter, etc... Adelaide knows that the tethered kids aren't monsters just victims of circumstances unlike most people.
ClassySaia wow I love your simile of the main character and it just so true for the rest of the world how we act. I could have never made an Analysis like that.
The French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, the October Revolution, even all the way back to the Roman Conflict of Orders and the birth of Athenian Democracy, it all goes back to how the poor and destitute have a limit and when the upper classes cross that line, it almost always ends in violence, and it's fair to say that we're getting closer and closer to that conflict right now. It's no secret that a certain segment of the population is making more money than ever while the rest of us are seeing a empirical decline in quality of living, and climate change is only going to make that worse.
Then explain those in our society who have experienced being homeless and are now in the top 1%. This isnt an issue of people not wanting to be poor as in most countries you can easily change that, this is an issue much like in the french revolution itself of wanting what others have because you feel entitled. In the time of the french revolution yes it was difficult if not completely impossible to go from under class to upper class so at least those who killed others for their wealth had an excuse even if what they did was horribly wrong. Today however we live in a world where how much you are willing to work determines how much you receive and we have hundreds of examples of this. This belief that we are on the verge of a crisis or that people are having a decline in quality of living as a whole throughout the world is just nonsense. People have never had more options or more freedoms, and all of this is an excuse to be angry at those who worked for what they have.
@@Browncoatful no one who's homeless is now the 1%. That's the thing. Moreover, the point isn't that poor people can become rich, but that the divide between rich and poor is getting wider and deeper that something's going to give. The French Revolution started because people were literally starving in the streets because of the aristocracy's expensive wars and luxurious lifestyles that they felt they were entitled to. There was no social mobility because you were born into an elite class; that's how nobility works. This comment is why RUclips needs laugh reactions. You have no idea on how the Ancien Regim worked, or why the revolution happened.
@@ginkiba3 Really? I would suggest you actually look up some of the top 1% which btw includes certain celebrities who have experienced homelessness and worked to get what they have. As an example, look at the movie "Pursuit of Happyness" which has this exact situation. Also the French revolution was a different time, where you couldnt come from nothing and rise up. You were either born to a wealthy home or poor, so comparing that to today doesn't work as now you absolutely can. Also dont presume people dont know something because they disagree with you. If anything i encourage you to look at the time of the french revolution and how they didnt have the opportunities we have today. So though their actions arent justified it is at least understandable why they were upset whereas with people today it is neither justified or understandable as you can make your own way. Which is why movies like this that play to these false facts come across as snobby and underwhelming. Frankly, people are sick of working hard for what they have and being told they dont deserve it but others do cause they didnt work.
@@Browncoatful again, you're missing the point. The problem isn't that social mobility doesn't exist (even though most people are seeing a decline in quality of life, especially in the USA, France, and the UK) but that there's a growing divide between haves and have-nots. At some point, the have-nots won't take it anymore and will try to take back their lives, usually by force, and they will win.
Wow you pointed out a lot of other dualities that I missed, particularly the Hands Across America thing and how it's both unity and division. Great video
@techCUISINE yep that scene with F police also can be a gag at all the times white people have called the police on blacks its like saying "the police can't save you now"
I'm not sure who the content creator is here but this is literally straight from an article about the film. I'm surprised the video didn't get a copywrite strike
This is the part that's been bugging me, is how could she not realize and basically be acting like she has PTSD (like that shrink or whoever said to her parents in the flashbacks) and was the victim the whole time?
RocknCorruptrepublic She wasn’t acting like she had PTSD, she just didn’t speak English from having been underground her whole life. She was just learning the ways of the above ground counterparts. Later, she acted like the victim bc she actually FELT like the victim. She was actually fighting for her life and family, as well as her ‘right’ to be above ground. It’s really conflicting 😅 She’s still the villain if you ask me
I think she might have realized, I would have to watch it again- she did referance the "mirror girl" in the begining of the movie, like she couldn't actually explain to her husband she was the doppelganger but was still afraid of red coming back for her. It's still hard to have a strait villain in the movie, who could blame the tethered for wanting to not have to live the messed up underground zombie life?
@@wildhearses yeah, I need to watch it again, because in my mind she was acting like she was traumatized about "mirror girl" coming back for her the entire movie... haha. And her fear and confusion at the real Adelaide seemed genuine, when they all came into the house and she kept asking "what do you want?" I believe there was a point it was just the 2 of them and she still was asking that... so it wasn't like she was saying that to pretend to be clueless.
@@Rita1984 Its somewhere between 'wayne' and 'ween' with a 'ng' sound at the beginning. I dated a guy with the same last name, its kind of hard to pronounce!
And it's an easter egg that connects to Get Out; when a guy was kidnapped at the beginning of the film, the song "Run, Rabbit, Run" was playing. ...And there were plenty of rabbits in Us.
I like that it's open to interpretation as for what it means. Like it was advertised with a rorshach test; you get out of it what you put into it. What's inside you.
The ending had me shook. I knew something was up with Adelaide when she killed the twin again, when she was grunting and growling. But I just thought it was the idea of how she had to become the red version of herself to kill someone, because that's what the tethered did, they killed people
Red's voice wasn't "hoarse from disuse"... He voice box was damaged when her Tether choked her in the fun house... When baby Red was handcuffed to the bed at the end of the movie, you can see that she touches her throat and grimaces in pain. That's why red sounds the way she does when she talks.
The real key is not looking too deeply into it. In the way of “how did they all get such perfect red jumpsuits for EVERYONE? Where did they get the scissors? How did the rabbits not shit everywhere down there? How does the whole giving birth thing work?” Don’t think about it.
@@ertfgghhhh Wut, if you ask those questions you are doing exactly the opposite because you don't just stop at what the movie gives you. You're thinking further for yourself and explore the ideas the movie presents, and while i liked the movie you won't get far with exploring the concept because it really doesn't make much sense imo
@@filmaurice5983 i disagree. This movie mos def Kubrick-esque.EVERY costume and word of dialogue and most of setting was for a reason and multiple reasons at that. I guess we are agreeing to disagree. But we do agree with liking this movie
@@ertfgghhhh Hm, I also think that it was a very purposeful movie, but the concept of an underground-doppelganger world as portrayed in this movie doesn't make much sense. Certainly not a big flaw, but still a flaw in my opinion
I originally thought the son got suspicious a the end because after Red was killed the soul she shared with Adelaide was gone. This is the first review that even mentioned the ideal the clones didn't have souls, very neon genesis evangelion.
Just you having an easier life means someone else, sometimes someone you'll never know, is forced into a harder life, whether you meant it to happen or not.
I thought the ending cemented this movie as a masterpiece, imo. Yes, it may be a bit predictable for some, but I was caught off guard when it decided to go that route, only making the whole endeavor much deeper than I expected...
I'm still stuck wondering how Red developed her vocabulary over the years to even learn a word like "tethered". Shouldn't she be speaking in much simpler terms if she stopped learning at such a young age?
People are saying the thethered weren't used to a different type of air so they had trouble making noises up here like when we see the reflection of that white dopleganger screaming and laughing but She wasn't making any sounds. Also Addy could speak but had much trouble doing it
Because once the tether was broken by the scientist abandoning the experiment which created the upper and lower level tethered, the connection slowly faded and glitches like laughter with no sound eventually became wandering bodys who were never taught speach because they were test subjects not people but mindless,speechless, clones, but "Red"was born on the upper level and she had memories of a past life that was taken away , she could learn again and I'm pretty sure there was something left behind, discarded in a tunnel with the word tether, experiment, etc
the original... (red) sees the commercial of hands across america, and in the commercial they use the word "tethered" to explain the people coming together, she picked up that vocal from the commercial in the beginning.
This film really makes you think about the hidden truths within society that are so true. Money, greed, self worth, playing the victim. It's endless. It's scary to think about, because the message within this movie is so true. We as society are so quick to blame one another instead of realizing our own faults and helping one another. So many people are blind to see the true meaning of life and the things we take for granted, just like the characters in this film. We are our own villains and don't even realize it. Bravo to this amazing video Ms. Grace.
Your likening of this movie to H.G. Wells' time machine blew my mind wide open. Holy moly. I always think you do great work but your analysis of this movie might be some of you guys' best. Well done.
This look at the themes of Us was definitely the most interesting! I myself see the Tethered as our past, specifically the sins of ancestors and how eventually they'll resurface...
I’m giving it another rewatch and I’m FLOORED by how heavy-handed the symbolism is. It’s so dynamic, and layered, and honest. I love seeing all the ways Peele made nearly every relationship dynamic pretty in the outside, and empty on the inside, to mirror the nice shell of America built upon a rotting interior.
This is honestly the best explanation for this film, I've spent ages since it came out trying to understand what the film was about. This makes so much sense
@@Nocturnalux Nope. Without Ye Olde Switcheroo, there would be pursuit from their captors. They would have prolly been in full force when Red/Adie was still young. All she knew was being Adelaide anyway. Matter 'o Fact, why weren't there even more survivors among the Government captors?
As much as I really enjoy the symbolism in this movie, I feel like the actual plot wasn't very well tied up. It's as if they wanted to leave it open so that you'd focus on the overall meaning but included just a bit too much information to let your brain suspend its disbelief. For instance, how did Red or Adie even know about these government captors existing or how the underground came to be if they were both inducted into that world without anyone physically being capable of telling them that, and we never saw a single captor? It might have made more sense (and more of a direct allegory for American society) if the tethered didn't understand why they were there, but were able to watch the news or reflections of the society above and thus developed a hatred for their good fortune rather than knowing all along it was government actors that put them there but choosing to attack the common people not in their predicament who had no idea about it. The mirroring movements were also frustrating since there didn't seem to be hard or fast rules as to how they worked (ie it works randomly with Pluto and Jason sometimes but nobody else above ground, sometimes below ground everyone is bound to it, other times no one is, etc). Ultimately, Red dragging down Adie is a reflection of class division and "us vs them" mentality that the movie centers around, so this is meant to parallel why the poor or downtrodden in our society might behave violently or in an "uncivilized" fashion, so for that simple reason I can understand why she wouldn't just run away. However, I really don't understand at all why Adie, originally from above ground, wouldn't just escape by herself and instead plans to murder everyone above ground when she is apart of that world and should be able to have empathy for both worlds. Guess it wouldn't have been a good enough twist.
I want to understand why people love this movie so much people say that you just don’t get it if you don’t like it but there are massive plot holes that make the movie so unenjoyable
Both Red and Adelaide are villains, as far as I've seen. A handful of scientist sickos experimented with clones and now everyone is to blame (whether or not they knew what was happening). Just because Adelaide was born where she was, her actions are still 1.) Knocking a little girl out 2.) Replacing her in her life, and can't be brushed away. Likewise, just because Red was knocked out and switched, she still 1.) Raised an army against unsuspecting innocent people 2.) Vengefully psychologically tormented people and killed people. A lack of consideration and love on both parts is a contributed to what has happened, but I think the lack of knowledge of what's been going on below is the biggest obstacle. If the Surface people were told, I doubt the population of clones would have continued to stay down there. Most likely there'd be a movement to bring them up and incorporate them into society and humanity. Sure, you'll have your jerks who want bad things, that's always the case throughout history. The point is to go for the good despite that.
Rum Coke omgosh so the movie is actually about false consciousness. The Tethered and the above ground people blame and attack each other when they should be blaming the scientists, just like how the middle class are led to blame the lower class or immigrants or blacks when really they should blame the elites (upper class who don't pay their fair share of taxes, use their status and wealth to cheat their way into high institutions like universities and Congress, give themselves raises and tax cuts, blames immigrants for unemployment, accuses poor people for gaming the system, etc.).
@@allPodd That's one way to interpret it. Although, with that example, I see it going more like: The Tunnelers assume all Surfacers are to blame, so the Tunnelers attack and kill everyone above, when they should AT LEAST have gone after the Scientists. Since the Surfacers are being attacked, and all they know is that they were having a lunch at a park when suddenly some random dopplegangers are out to kill them, they defend themselves-- as anyone would, if they saw themselves in a red jumpsuit coming at them with scissors in hand and murder glinting in their eyes. The Tunnelers were told (by Red-Adelaide) that they have reason to be upset by Surfacers, and that they should rise up, attack and kill, and replace them all-- and like sheeple they went along with her, bc her skill list is full of "how to organize mass murder, sewing red jumpsuits, acquiring identical scissors somehow" and "teaching them to read/talk, call for help, make a new life without bloodshed" wasn't on the agenda that day-- just like how the Tunneler did it to her. (Although, not sure if Red SAID she was a Surfacer beforehand. That could have potentially pegged her as someone to kill in the eyes of the Tunnelers, why does she get a pass? With what mindset they seem to have been taught, I think the Tunnelers should congratulate the Former-Tunneler-Addy for succeeding in replacing her Surface-Dweller-Addy, then kill Red-Addy, and then do it to their own counterparts on the surface.). If I were to compare this to our 'modern' times, I'd say that would be hard. There are more variables than simply "They say this/Did that/Blamed that person". I'd have to keep in mind some things: Red and Adelaide are both WRONG. Both are villains. No one chose to listen, to sit, to talk, to find a path to unity, to offer or give forgiveness (from the Scientists, and also, an apology to poor 11 yr old Former-Surface-Addy who was knocked out!) . If I were to truly try to compare it our current times, to fit our day and age in what I see happening in the movie so far, I'd say first: everyone is the villain. Elite class, middle class, poor class, all ethnicities-- all of them are the bad guy (at least in the eyes of whoever is considered the "Tunnelers"). And apparently the only answer one side (specifically the "Tunneler") sees as the solution is to battle it out until we've got bodies strewn across America. We don't get to know what solution the Surfacers would have preferred, bc they were not asked or talked with. All the Surfacers find out is "OH CRAP, MY GRAMMA IS TRYING TO SHANK MY GRAMMA WITH SCISSORS!!" I do think awareness is a big factor, but second to that is compassion, mercy, forgiveness, and bring Justice to the actual perpetrators, and not assuming "Surface= Bad guys; kill them all."
Another Thriller reference in there: At the end, the smile that Adelaide gives her suspicious son in the ambulance, mirrors the one MJ does when, after reassuring his gf that all is good, he turns to the camera, with the yellow monster eyes and the final chilling laugh.
The influences of the films shown in the beginning is so clever, as they’re dated in that time period and will have been viewed by a young Adelaide in her childhood(as well as hand across America). I love your idea of having everything v having nothing, so the short period of having everything in her childhood is what she based her entire plan on to resurface and take back the above ground world, it was her only point of reference in life. It’s not only a film reference to things that inspired the movie, but Jordan Peele also manages to work into the actual logic of the film itself. Great analysis!!
When Red stops developing in the underground world, it’s not unexpected. She’s been denied the life she once had and the company she once had. Not to mention that the world above kept changing with time. Changes in environment can have psychological effects on a person, and that left Red stunted.
The house of mirrors is used as a portal to the underground. I found that to be interesting. I got lost in one of those as a 4 y o and all I remember is panicking and I kept running into the glass over and over every where I turned, I couldn’t walk in a straight line but I saw my mother and brother across the room and couldn’t get to them. Luckily my aunts band came from nowhere and she snatched me back in line. I was hysterical (also dealing with the realization that my mother didn’t realize I was lost, but my aunt did, lol). Needless to say, that scene freaked me out, and made me wonder how many other toddlers have experienced that?
Man i love you guys. It feels like im in college qgain and leaning about a class when i watch these vids because i think about it and i want to talk and learn some ones eles take on it. Thank you for the lessons and the teaching that i wanna cone bavk and learn more
Even if she was an imposter, what were her options? To do what she did or to live her all life in the underground? One could hate her from some simplified black or white morality standpoint, but considering the despair of her life, maybe not so much?
I loved this episode of Ending Explained! You know, I was just talking to my boyfriend about how I honestly love Us, the film. It's a film I think went over a lot of people's heads, for a myriad of reasons. But I believe, once we actually take the time to try and understand, and once we put all the puzzle pieces together, this is a film worthy of accolades and praise, because as you guys said, it causes us to think, and to question ourselves. Thank you guys for such a great in-depth look at this film.
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This is one of my top 3 favorite channels on RUclips. I still, personally, wish it was called Screen Prism. I watched the video on why it was changed, so I understand...but I don't understand XD
A good foreshadow of the twist is the fact when Adelaide teaches Jason to follow the song snapping their fingers. If you pay attention, she's NOT following the musics tempo. This shows that the under people are not musical, because they were never exposed to it.
marilucs the Tethered lacked soul . No rhythm. They were too slow. ( snap on beat scene ) Which also proves that Jason is switched also . Pluto can light a lighter/Matches and Jason can’t .... when it should be the other way around . :) Also Jason keeps talking about a magic trick that he learned last summer but don’t even know what it does ???? . It was never a magic trick . He just too slow to light a lighter lol
Great video, but her voice is not hoarse from disuse. She has Spasmodic Dysphonia after a trauma to her throat. Lupita explains this in several interviews. It even sparked controversy among people with the same disorder for being portrayed as monsters.
Best analysis I've heard so far. Well done! Great movie. It's not without it's flaws, but I felt the overall tone of the movies creepiness and message deeply.
Wow, I didn’t get the switch until it showed it bu5 I got little inklings, I guessed the connection between hands across America because of the red jumpsuits, aka the trailer
@@MaRyaYTOfficial I just figured bc it was a doppelganger, they could swap places. It didnt show their interaction, so I assumed but i was pleased with the ending. I cant wait for Peele's next film. Hopefully it's more horror.
Same, I was disappointed at the end because I thought the twist was pretty apparent. But the film is doing much more than just trying to surprise you on the initial viewing, so I can’t fault it for that.
Academy Award Winner Jordan Peele: BUNNIES AREN'T JUST CUTE LIKE EVERYBODY SUPPOSES! THEY'VE GOT THEIR HOPPY LEGS AND TWITCHY LITTLE NOSES! AND WHAT'S WITH ALL THE CARROTS??? WHAT DO THEY NEED SUCH GOOD EYESIGHT FOR ANYWAY???????? BUNNIES! BUNNIES! IT MUST BE BUNNIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I really hope that someone sees this. Anywho, it was explained that those from the underground were failed test experiments from the government (supposedly) created to control the ones above ground. When it was explained that it failed, they were left down there. However, when Red and Adelaide switched, “Adelaide” (the tethered) took up ballet, and Red learned it from her. Adelaide was the actual tethered, and she was able to control Red through dance and (supposedly) other acts. Which means that the experiment wasn’t a complete failure. Red and Adelaide were outliers. Also, this might have to do with the fact that they “could duplicate the body but not the soul.” Perhaps this means that ppl and their tethers have passions/talents that they both share despite their circumstances. And because of that, either one could control the other, or maybe, the original person could control the person doing that act whether the tethered is above ground or currently moving and thinking on their own free will. That maybe why the son could control when his tethered did when fire was present, or why the white mom’s tethered knew how to apply lip gloss without ever seeing it because they’re both vain at heart. Sounds like a stretch but who even knows 🤷🏽♀️
Maybe the tethered were simply a counter measure against nuclear fallout created during the Cold War. The tethered live in a giant fallout shelter basically.
I didn't watch the movie yet but the scene or the boy at the beach at 6:01 fives me major vibes of" the onces who walked away from omelace" which i think connests pretty well the the theam of living one's life based on others sufferings
No, her voice sounds like that when she speaks, because Red damaged her larynx when she choked her out as a kid, and there was no medical attention down there to fix it.
@@armandharris100 since when does being unprivileged give the right to kill? Or the excuse to do so? Is it the fault of those who didnt know theses people even existed that they were created and left down there? More and more i can see ties to this move and the real world as those in the real world blame those who had nothing to do with the situation they are in and simply want to take everything because they feel entitled
You have a basic understanding of the world if you think underprivileged people are just entitled and want things, they want to be equal which is not wrong or unfair. You just prefer the current power structure where you have and others don’t which sounds more like the actual definition of entitlement. People who have nothing to lose resort to violent revolutions all the time, real human history across the globe can account for that. They’re “detethering” themselves for the real ones, red and Adelaide are unique in that they actually switched lives so red wants revenge, the other clones have no real knowledge of the world above just that they have this horrible life and are stuck in these cycles because of their counterparts, they killed their originals to “free” themselves.
@@AlzillaRoxxx I have a very good understanding thank you, i grew up in a home where we didnt have much of anything even with both parents working and yet now I have a great deal as i worked hard to get where i am. Nothing was given to me i earned it, and though i dont make as much as say bill gates I would never believe in any way i deserve what he has as i know what its like to work to get what i have and people feel that somehow they are entitled to my hard work. Also not having what others have isnt an excuse or justification in any degree to want to take it or kill for it. In fact this move portrays this quite well in that those underground feel that because they look like someone else and have gone through what they have they are therefore entitled to take what they want. Its a childish nature, and you could even argue that they are childlike but then you lose the comparison to the real world because people who think like these individuals in this movie do are not children.
Jay Allen so basically every revolution ever, we don’t want to praise and support the tethered because they committed murder but Americans celebrate Independence Day, Indians commemorate their Independence Day and other countries celebrate theirs and their civil wars even though it’s the same thing, fighting and murdering to win the rights you think you deserve. How is this any different? It’s only because it’s a microcosm that you think differently.
Dear The Take, thank you so much for this analysis! A recent personal goal is to stand up for what’s right as I tend to shy away from going against popular opinion. Homophobia was expressed at a recent family event ... and I was thankful to have your voices from this analysis in my head. Where I once would have been silent and complicit, I singly stood up for inclusion. I’ve never been braver :) thanks for helping guide me there.
This is by far my favorite video from the take. Thank you for the insight I've been trying to figure this movie out ever since I saw it four months ago. Great video... I now understand what this movie was trying to say.
Thank you so much for making this video, screenprism. I personaly not a horror movie watcher and when my friends tell me this movie is so good, I just knew that it have important things to say. This video helps me so much
Haven’t way the full vid but when Red says “If it weren’t for you I might’ve never danced.” This is also a hint because The Tethered were meant to “puppet” their above-ground counterparts. So Red/Real Adelaide began dancing when Adelaide/actual Tethered began dancing
Amazing video as always, just one comment: I don’t think Red’s voice sounds like that from disuse. I read somewhere that it sounds like that because she was choked by the other girl in the house of mirrors. That messed up her voicebox apparently
Even just thinking about this film has put me on edge, between the Red family breaking in and them getting away on the boat was the most afraid I've been watching any media since I was 14 watching the Woman In Black play (and further back, when I was 8 watching Night of the Living Dummy lol). Doppelgangers are soooooo scary.
1975 is the year of the rabbit in Japan and 1986 -1975 = 11. Scientific American Mind did an article back in 2007 about Oedipus Complex where a friend was scared to open the door for a friend he/she has known for years. The title of the article was Body Snatchers.
@@RocknCorruptrepublic Same, I still liked the movie but it would've been alot cooler when the big reveal happened if I hadn't known it for the whole movie haha
@@pongo5000 yeah, the only saving grace there was that I got distracted by the scenes that came after. I was like "wait what if that's not even the same kid? They didn't actually show what happened". But since it wasn't addressed in the scenes that followed I mostly dismissed it haha.
@@RocknCorruptrepublic Haha that makes sense I just remember noticing all the things that showed they swapped like the whole her "tethered" being able to talk and her automatically knowning the way to the underground place, which I guess saves me a repeat viewing 😂
Yes! Yes! Bravo, Jordan Peele! I loved this movie, but, to be honest, I could not figure out the complete message. I thought it was about inequality due to racial divides, then when they showed the many different clones, I thought, well, this is about social class. But, now I see the meaning more clearly. I have to see this movie again. Well done.
It's like the shadow, by Carl Jung. There's something so obvious in the film, so obvious in fact that we fail to notice. Eventually, your unconfronted problems, confront you and give you hell. That's partly the principle of the message.
Except that these aren’t OUR “unconfronted”, that’s not a real word by the way, problems. We, in this movie, had no idea this problem existed. And this problem murdered the fuck out of us. This movie does exactly what the BLM movement does. Blames people that had nothing to do with the problem for the problem. While completely misconstruing the actual problem into something that isn’t actually a problem. His solution is to murder a bunch of people who didn’t know the problem existed. That’s not gonna fix the problem. So the principal message is shit!
I think a good reference is missing here. Zora says in the car that they all ignore the end of the world and that everybody is mind controlled due to flouridization. Also that her tethered is way faster than she is but she also said maybe she doesnt want to run. and later on, she lands some quite good hits xD
The movies that scare me the most are the ones where human beings are the "monsters". It feels the most real.
Me too. Human beings are scarier than ghosts.
Unfortunately, its due to the fact that we, Human Beings have the Willpower and Mental Capabilities to reach something beyond imaginable, horrifying it doesn't just mean progress in technology
E. Gary Gygax would have agreed.
@@fawwazn.1244 Oof. That rings so true.
Yep...this was the scariest movie I’ve seen in a long time...it freaked me out.
When Screenprism said that the Tethered don't speak, it could symbolise the fact that the disenfranchised have no voice.
love your reply, it's a good one.
Great Answer!
holy crap... that's brilliant
desertrosereads not the world, just US was confirmed
Jordan Peele's and Guillermo del Toro's admiration for each other was on full display during the 2018 Oscars. In the wake of GDT's The Shape of Water, I see several parallels in Us, including:
1. The concept of respecting the needs of 'the other.' Themes of xenophobia, etc come into play
2. Giving voice to the voiceless, and taking it away from those who consciously silence others: *(SPOILER)* the Asset slicing through the voice box of Strickland near the conclusion of TSOW, and the numerous voice injuries sustained in Us (choking of Adelaide, and various scissor attacks to the necks of several characters).
Other parallels include the expansion of the color red throughout both films, and the concept of altered perception of time in characters who aren't really part of the world in which they are living: TSOW protagonist Elisa was always late despite omnpresent clocks/calendars/punchclocks, and Adelaide had difficulty with rhythm when trying to snap her fingers to a song.
The hero is the one who didn't drop a perfectly good caramel apple in the sand.
The hero is the one who didn't start with murder.
@@utubrGaming SHE DROPPED A PERFECTLY GOOD CARAMEL APPLE IN THE SAND!!!
*candy apple
I WAS SO MAD
that moment bugged me too. Why didn't she take the apple with her?
Is that why adelaine was freaking out when her son, she couldn't find him on the beach. She was worried/scared that his doppelganger was gonna do the same thing that she did decades ago. Woah!🙊
He already is a dobleganger. He was taken while at his grandmas house. (He probably killed her) Hes been speaking different and acting different. He was building sand tunnels on the beach. Thats why the other-mom treated the son like a dog. His rich "mom" could see it and was trying to communicate with him. To let him know she knew and would help him. Hes the only one who truly understands her. His real mom took him at the end before she was killed
@@aaliyahgibson1659 i mean. He was a completely different person. His whole family remarked about it the whole movie and every child he came across called him "weird"
@@loved1291 this theory does not hold up. the Tethered does not know how to speak english, that's why when fake adelaide took the original's place, she was not able to speak, and was diagnose as a symptom of her supposed PTSD.
Jason and Zora are essentially half-breeds. While the Tethered just mimic their original's movement (and thus deemed a failed experiment, to which they were originally made to control the original), there's a theory that fake Adelaide is actually a successful one, and can control the original (which could explain why she wandered off), and that Jason inherited this gift from her mother and thus the reason why he could control Pluto.
If you told me five years ago that Jordan Peele would become an expert horror director, I’d have laughed. But here we are
You don't get called an expert after making 1 good movie... Lol
Hugh Jass it's already 2 movies
@@createplanwithelle US was mediocre at best.
Hugh Jass in your opinion, but it’s received praise from critics and most people. Classics aren’t determined by Hugh Jass
@@thomasnewton8223 Black panther received praise too... It was even nominated lol. Nice try.
US had glaring plotholes. It's a decent movie, but not even close to great. Peele made 1 great movie.
That's the consensus.
I've only watched Us once and the line that stood out to me the most came from Red. Simply, "I don't understand why she couldn't take me with her..." It really hurts the more I think about it. Both girls could've lived happily on the surface but one girl took that option away. Why did she have to make someone else miserable just so she could be happy...?
TheCandymusiclover The way of life. Everyone can’t be happy one has to suffer in order for one to be happy. An ideology I’m still trying to piece together.
@@TyDaGreatest. Right. In the system of capitalism, particularly in the United States, success comes through supplying the demand for products, which are made via the labour of others. Obscene wealth in capitalism requires exploiting the people who provide that labour obscenely -- as seen with Amazon's Jeff Bezos. Your happiness literally comes at the cost of someone else's suffering. The point 'Us' makes is that this someone else who suffers in order for us to be happy is just like us -- they may as well be us.
human nature
@@vivvy_0 there is nothing of natural on that
it reminds me of the TV series “the handmaid’s tale.”
one of the commanders who had a huge part in making the country of Gilead says something like how he just wanted things to be better, to be good. this obviously angers the protagonist, who is living a miserable, oppressed life, and the commander continues to say “Better never means better for everyone.”
i think that’s a lot of people’s set ideas about society and inequality and a distribution of resources honestly. people think someone’s/a group of people’s comfort and lives have to be sacrificed for the general population to have it better (when that’s obviously not true imo).
I’m a long time ballet dancer so just thought I’d put this out there pas de deux in English means dance of two I thought was interesting in this story
Autumn Cook wouldnt it mean more “ step of two?
Pass the duex??
You have 666 likes... I don’t wanna mess it up.
@@MegaWowful Oui, it is steps of two.
Whether it is dance or steps, it has the same point. Very cool, thanks for letting us know.
Every day I think about "Us" I think I'm slowly but surely liking Us more than "Get Out" it just unravels more and more
It's the same Universe the ancestors could have been the doctors long ago doing all the experiments
I’m wondering, how did you feel at the end of movie?
Love both films. But never obsessed over get out like I do us
@@GanDtech That theory is going around. Maybe the Tethered were phase 1 (or phase 2?) of the experiments, and that the Coagula/Sunken Place is the final phase.
I feel the same way.
"If you're privileged, and you're denying the rights of people who are unprivileged, you're denying your innate bond to the rest of your people." I literally had to pause the video for a moment because I started tearing up at that line. I've never heard that sentiment put to words so perfectly
I have. It's called Communism.
Ashley Poenisch 85% of non-Hispanic interracial crimes feature a Black assailant and White victim. Jordan “I don’t cast White people for lead roles” Peele loves to talk about White privilege and racism but never points the finger inwards.
@@nicolasleroux5302 Well white privilege doesn't even exist. But black privilege certainly does.
Nicolas Leroux What does that have to do with anything about the comment or the video?
Petite Cossette explain.
I haven't seen anyone talk about how Adelaide's clothing gets redder and redder as the movie progresses. Quite a bit to analyze there! Great work as usual, otherwise.
bkcpisme Everything i saw mentioned it at least in passing. But it’s an excellent visual. She’s becoming her true self again, she was hiding for all her life and no one noticed she didn’t belong but in the end she knew, i think that’s the reference they are hitting on when they discuss Adelaide’s memories come back slowly on who she truly is. She shouldn’t have had to steal a spot in a world and country she deserved.
Taylor Nichole I must have been watching the wrong videos!
I forget but there are at least 2 vids that mention it
bkcpisme maybe just maybe I might be stretching it here but it’s possible it gets more red because she comes into contact with more blood
It's mentioned in the film theorists video
4:11
I mean... I feel like you can tell.
Adelaide turns to Jason and goes "Get in rhythm". Proceeds to click fingers off-rhythm.
If you watched the trailers to see Adelaide being choked by the mirror girl, seeing *Red* as the one with the hoarse voice raises a giant flag.
At the end, Adelaide goes down underneath the mirror room into the home of the tethered like she knows exactly where she is going.
As she is dying, Red whistles the tune the *correct way round*, back when they were children, Adelaide sang the tune in reverse.
Even without the explicit reveal at the end you can tell something is fishy! The first time I watched this, I was really upset when Red died. I thought that she would be the one to save all the untethered.
What I like about this is that despite all that... Red acts like a tethered and Adelaide acts like an untethered. There is no "real" or "fake" version. They're both real.
I also like how Jason's "other" wasn't inherently violent to begin with. He was a little feral, a little strange, but he never tried to harm Jason until he locked him in the cabinet. And Jason would never have locked him in, unless he was hinted to do so by Adelaide. Violence towards each other has to be taught.
Very Well AND INTRESTINGLY put!!!
that used to always bother me when she snapped off rhythm. ive written a paper about this film, seen it 5 times, & never put that together. thank you for pointing that out.
She is not off-rythm at all. She just isn't flicking on the down-beat.
If you're on "Red's" side, it's a film where the hero loses and you know it. If you're on "Adelaide's" side, it's a film where the villain wins, and you dont know it. I cant decide which side I'm on, but figured I shouldn't.
@@RestorativeClarity agreed. Thats why I chose not to be on one side. It'd be interesting if Jordan Peele or someone else thought up the concept for both of them to "win" be it sequel or otherwise.
The fact is that both are victims. Adelaide of the system, Red of Adelaide. But they both CHOOSE to commit villainous acts. Everyone has a reason for their actions but reasons do not negate wrongdoings. So who you root for depends on how you weigh their actions. They are both victims and both villains, in someone's eyes at least.
@@luciddreams7540 Red Is the hero tbh. Even tho she started off privileged she got swapped & became disenfranchised forced to see life through their perspective Red realized the life they were living was meaningless, she got organized devised a plan and essentially became a voice for the "disenfranchised/ under privileged" struggles that were Never heard. *Literally*
Fuckbøi Mansøn It’s true Red is heroic to the Tethered. But she still ordered the genocide of every American citizen. That kind of makes her a villain to a lot of people. And it’s not even analogous to our U.S. where we’re complicit in being aware of the underprivileged. In her U.S., the people were oblivious and therefore completely innocent victims. So the only ones truly culpable were the government officials who created the Tethered. Like Killmonger from the leads’ other movie, right intention, wrong execution. She freed her people... by massacring innocents.
@@luciddreams7540 The movie is about the revolution of the disenfranchised against the franchised. Every revolution that involved the under privileged standing up always ended in blood shed so it's technically not wrong, Red & her people weren't gonna make it from down there by abiding by law enforcement would they? No
One of the songs in the Us soundtrack is called Us Anthem
Us Anthem
Us An them
Us and them
Genneth or maybe U.S. Anthem
Yourmother Ho that too!
Roger Waters wants to know your location
Where did the D come from?
That's cute, but reading in a but too far.
This movie was so snubbed for the Oscars. It should’ve been nominated for actress, score, direction and best picture in my opinion. Parasite has similar themes and it was nominated.
Hamdi Ali Hassan forget about the other categories for a second, but Lupita deserved at least a nomination for best actress.
it made me so mad when both Us and Midsommar were snubbed yet still got referenced in the opening song
akshay satish perhaps (I don’t really agree with you) but even if you were right, weird abstract movies that don’t make sense get nominated all the time, like Birdman and that 1 even won so this masterpiece for sure should’ve been nominated.
the horror genere is still looked like it's just bùllshìt for kids during summer, that's the truth
@@jadajc maybe as they were both female leads, which would suck if true
Now I'll be creeped out by my own reflection, when first I used to only be disgusted
💀 I felt that
Never be disgusted. Just walk upright and be on your best behavior and try not to harm others. That will show your beauty. I love you and don't even know you. Peace.
m o o d
LMFAO
I c a n r e l a t e
I like to imagine that the main guy from Get Out exist in this universe and right after he has gone through a traumatic experience with people trying to take over his body he has to deal with his clone. Just not being able to catch a break.
I think I've seen it suggested that "the sunken place" might be inhabiting his underground tethered.
So first white people try to steal his life, then his doppelganger tries to steal his life. Poor fella.
You know he isn't cured of his hypnosis right, if his near a cup and spoon it's over!
The Jordan Cinematic Universe
Jorden did say there are 4 more other movies to come. Maybe we will see all of them come together like Split and Glass. How Glass they all were in one.
The music playing during the ballet scene also reminds me of Swan Lake (also by Tchaikovsky). Depicting the good, innocent ‘White Swan’ Odette, and her evil doppelgänger Odelle the ‘Black Swan’
Yes
Right which is also a theme utilized in black swan
Adelaide having sympathy for the tethered dying kids is like a person growing up in the hood or trailer park then becoming successful but being sympathetic and angry of in justice shown on the news of lower class people. It's rare for anyone in higher class to sympathize and care about the 1 percent, Me Too movements, Black Lives Matter, etc... Adelaide knows that the tethered kids aren't monsters just victims of circumstances unlike most people.
ClassySaia wow I love your simile of the main character and it just so true for the rest of the world how we act. I could have never made an Analysis like that.
@@trinarobertson6333 Thanks!
Truly
The French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, the October Revolution, even all the way back to the Roman Conflict of Orders and the birth of Athenian Democracy, it all goes back to how the poor and destitute have a limit and when the upper classes cross that line, it almost always ends in violence, and it's fair to say that we're getting closer and closer to that conflict right now. It's no secret that a certain segment of the population is making more money than ever while the rest of us are seeing a empirical decline in quality of living, and climate change is only going to make that worse.
Great analysis
Then explain those in our society who have experienced being homeless and are now in the top 1%. This isnt an issue of people not wanting to be poor as in most countries you can easily change that, this is an issue much like in the french revolution itself of wanting what others have because you feel entitled. In the time of the french revolution yes it was difficult if not completely impossible to go from under class to upper class so at least those who killed others for their wealth had an excuse even if what they did was horribly wrong. Today however we live in a world where how much you are willing to work determines how much you receive and we have hundreds of examples of this. This belief that we are on the verge of a crisis or that people are having a decline in quality of living as a whole throughout the world is just nonsense. People have never had more options or more freedoms, and all of this is an excuse to be angry at those who worked for what they have.
@@Browncoatful no one who's homeless is now the 1%. That's the thing. Moreover, the point isn't that poor people can become rich, but that the divide between rich and poor is getting wider and deeper that something's going to give.
The French Revolution started because people were literally starving in the streets because of the aristocracy's expensive wars and luxurious lifestyles that they felt they were entitled to. There was no social mobility because you were born into an elite class; that's how nobility works.
This comment is why RUclips needs laugh reactions. You have no idea on how the Ancien Regim worked, or why the revolution happened.
@@ginkiba3 Really? I would suggest you actually look up some of the top 1% which btw includes certain celebrities who have experienced homelessness and worked to get what they have. As an example, look at the movie "Pursuit of Happyness" which has this exact situation.
Also the French revolution was a different time, where you couldnt come from nothing and rise up. You were either born to a wealthy home or poor, so comparing that to today doesn't work as now you absolutely can. Also dont presume people dont know something because they disagree with you. If anything i encourage you to look at the time of the french revolution and how they didnt have the opportunities we have today. So though their actions arent justified it is at least understandable why they were upset whereas with people today it is neither justified or understandable as you can make your own way. Which is why movies like this that play to these false facts come across as snobby and underwhelming. Frankly, people are sick of working hard for what they have and being told they dont deserve it but others do cause they didnt work.
@@Browncoatful again, you're missing the point. The problem isn't that social mobility doesn't exist (even though most people are seeing a decline in quality of life, especially in the USA, France, and the UK) but that there's a growing divide between haves and have-nots. At some point, the have-nots won't take it anymore and will try to take back their lives, usually by force, and they will win.
This movie is like "Coraline" for adults. Weird Tim Burton aesthetic, alternate underground world with evil doppelgangers of the normal people
When she said "We are Americans" I laughed in the cinema house, I thought its funny, but it has deeper meaning. thanks, prism screen
Im sure it was meant to be both
I did too. I remember I was the only one laughing about it. My friend even asked me what's funny. Lol.
I watched it twice and both times that line came up, everyone laughed too.
Same
I laughed at it as well. A lot of this movie's symbolism went over my head though I enjoyed it. I'm liking it even more now.
There's another Alice in Wonderland reference when Red says "We're all mad down here." Just like the Mad Hatter
Wow you pointed out a lot of other dualities that I missed, particularly the Hands Across America thing and how it's both unity and division. Great video
Oh my god, your pic looks just like Shakira.
techCUISINE that’s obviously not ALL that it’s about
@techCUISINE yep that scene with F police also can be a gag at all the times white people have called the police on blacks its like saying "the police can't save you now"
I'm not sure who the content creator is here but this is literally straight from an article about the film. I'm surprised the video didn't get a copywrite strike
I believe Adelaide was aware of the switch, it wasn’t a sudden realization. That’s what makes her the villain imo.
This is the part that's been bugging me, is how could she not realize and basically be acting like she has PTSD (like that shrink or whoever said to her parents in the flashbacks) and was the victim the whole time?
RocknCorruptrepublic She wasn’t acting like she had PTSD, she just didn’t speak English from having been underground her whole life. She was just learning the ways of the above ground counterparts. Later, she acted like the victim bc she actually FELT like the victim. She was actually fighting for her life and family, as well as her ‘right’ to be above ground.
It’s really conflicting 😅 She’s still the villain if you ask me
I think she might have realized, I would have to watch it again- she did referance the "mirror girl" in the begining of the movie, like she couldn't actually explain to her husband she was the doppelganger but was still afraid of red coming back for her. It's still hard to have a strait villain in the movie, who could blame the tethered for wanting to not have to live the messed up underground zombie life?
@@hereforthefoolery7217 Talking about fake (above ground) Adelaide haha my bad
@@wildhearses yeah, I need to watch it again, because in my mind she was acting like she was traumatized about "mirror girl" coming back for her the entire movie... haha. And her fear and confusion at the real Adelaide seemed genuine, when they all came into the house and she kept asking "what do you want?" I believe there was a point it was just the 2 of them and she still was asking that... so it wasn't like she was saying that to pretend to be clueless.
The Vietnamese word for rabbit was a nice touch. Because... Well, it's nice to be included
how do you pronounce your last name?
@@Rita1984 Its somewhere between 'wayne' and 'ween' with a 'ng' sound at the beginning. I dated a guy with the same last name, its kind of hard to pronounce!
And it's an easter egg that connects to Get Out; when a guy was kidnapped at the beginning of the film, the song "Run, Rabbit, Run" was playing. ...And there were plenty of rabbits in Us.
@@Circee11 its easy, nguyen = 'new win"
I like that it's open to interpretation as for what it means. Like it was advertised with a rorshach test; you get out of it what you put into it. What's inside you.
That's a great explanation
The ending had me shook. I knew something was up with Adelaide when she killed the twin again, when she was grunting and growling. But I just thought it was the idea of how she had to become the red version of herself to kill someone, because that's what the tethered did, they killed people
I believe Red's voice isnt hoarse from disguise but instead from being choked out by her doppel as a child
that’s not why her voice is hoarse
I love the film. Lupita was phenomenal in this role.
Red's voice wasn't "hoarse from disuse"... He voice box was damaged when her Tether choked her in the fun house... When baby Red was handcuffed to the bed at the end of the movie, you can see that she touches her throat and grimaces in pain. That's why red sounds the way she does when she talks.
The real key is not looking too deeply into it. In the way of “how did they all get such perfect red jumpsuits for EVERYONE? Where did they get the scissors? How did the rabbits not shit everywhere down there? How does the whole giving birth thing work?” Don’t think about it.
Those questions are asked by those who dont like open ended movies. They like their movies in a box with a bow
I can't imagine thinking that hard into this movie or any movie, lol. I would never enjoy anything.
@@ertfgghhhh Wut, if you ask those questions you are doing exactly the opposite because you don't just stop at what the movie gives you. You're thinking further for yourself and explore the ideas the movie presents, and while i liked the movie you won't get far with exploring the concept because it really doesn't make much sense imo
@@filmaurice5983 i disagree. This movie mos def Kubrick-esque.EVERY costume and word of dialogue and most of setting was for a reason and multiple reasons at that. I guess we are agreeing to disagree. But we do agree with liking this movie
@@ertfgghhhh Hm, I also think that it was a very purposeful movie, but the concept of an underground-doppelganger world as portrayed in this movie doesn't make much sense. Certainly not a big flaw, but still a flaw in my opinion
I originally thought the son got suspicious a the end because after Red was killed the soul she shared with Adelaide was gone. This is the first review that even mentioned the ideal the clones didn't have souls, very neon genesis evangelion.
Just you having an easier life means someone else, sometimes someone you'll never know, is forced into a harder life, whether you meant it to happen or not.
I thought the ending cemented this movie as a masterpiece, imo. Yes, it may be a bit predictable for some, but I was caught off guard when it decided to go that route, only making the whole endeavor much deeper than I expected...
I'm still stuck wondering how Red developed her vocabulary over the years to even learn a word like "tethered". Shouldn't she be speaking in much simpler terms if she stopped learning at such a young age?
Can you not omg what does that even matter-
@@sofiaxo4543 I'm just curious considering none of the others spoke any words at all?
People are saying the thethered weren't used to a different type of air so they had trouble making noises up here like when we see the reflection of that white dopleganger screaming and laughing but She wasn't making any sounds. Also Addy could speak but had much trouble doing it
Because once the tether was broken by the scientist abandoning the experiment which created the upper and lower level tethered, the connection slowly faded and glitches like laughter with no sound eventually became wandering bodys who were never taught speach because they were test subjects not people but mindless,speechless, clones, but "Red"was born on the upper level and she had memories of a past life that was taken away , she could learn again and I'm pretty sure there was something left behind, discarded in a tunnel with the word tether, experiment, etc
the original... (red) sees the commercial of hands across america, and in the commercial they use the word "tethered" to explain the people coming together, she picked up that vocal from the commercial in the beginning.
This film really makes you think about the hidden truths within society that are so true. Money, greed, self worth, playing the victim. It's endless. It's scary to think about, because the message within this movie is so true. We as society are so quick to blame one another instead of realizing our own faults and helping one another. So many people are blind to see the true meaning of life and the things we take for granted, just like the characters in this film. We are our own villains and don't even realize it. Bravo to this amazing video Ms. Grace.
I was never scared while watching it rather I was anticipating how things will play out in a scary way.
mikah ong Same I thought it’d be very scary so I ended up bracing myself from something super scary but it was okay
Yeah, the movie was a more home invasion thiller
Your likening of this movie to H.G. Wells' time machine blew my mind wide open. Holy moly. I always think you do great work but your analysis of this movie might be some of you guys' best. Well done.
This is all from an article written by someone else, which they did not credit
This look at the themes of Us was definitely the most interesting! I myself see the Tethered as our past, specifically the sins of ancestors and how eventually they'll resurface...
I’m giving it another rewatch and I’m FLOORED by how heavy-handed the symbolism is. It’s so dynamic, and layered, and honest. I love seeing all the ways Peele made nearly every relationship dynamic pretty in the outside, and empty on the inside, to mirror the nice shell of America built upon a rotting interior.
This is honestly the best explanation for this film, I've spent ages since it came out trying to understand what the film was about. This makes so much sense
Blaming the child for switching places would be like blaming a Holocaust Survivor for jumping lines/queues to survive.
She didn't have to drag real!Adelaide down, though...she could just escape.
@@Nocturnalux Nope. Without Ye Olde Switcheroo, there would be pursuit from their captors. They would have prolly been in full force when Red/Adie was still young. All she knew was being Adelaide anyway. Matter 'o Fact, why weren't there even more survivors among the Government captors?
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As much as I really enjoy the symbolism in this movie, I feel like the actual plot wasn't very well tied up. It's as if they wanted to leave it open so that you'd focus on the overall meaning but included just a bit too much information to let your brain suspend its disbelief. For instance, how did Red or Adie even know about these government captors existing or how the underground came to be if they were both inducted into that world without anyone physically being capable of telling them that, and we never saw a single captor? It might have made more sense (and more of a direct allegory for American society) if the tethered didn't understand why they were there, but were able to watch the news or reflections of the society above and thus developed a hatred for their good fortune rather than knowing all along it was government actors that put them there but choosing to attack the common people not in their predicament who had no idea about it. The mirroring movements were also frustrating since there didn't seem to be hard or fast rules as to how they worked (ie it works randomly with Pluto and Jason sometimes but nobody else above ground, sometimes below ground everyone is bound to it, other times no one is, etc).
Ultimately, Red dragging down Adie is a reflection of class division and "us vs them" mentality that the movie centers around, so this is meant to parallel why the poor or downtrodden in our society might behave violently or in an "uncivilized" fashion, so for that simple reason I can understand why she wouldn't just run away. However, I really don't understand at all why Adie, originally from above ground, wouldn't just escape by herself and instead plans to murder everyone above ground when she is apart of that world and should be able to have empathy for both worlds. Guess it wouldn't have been a good enough twist.
what took yall so long!!! iv been waiting for this for weeks!!!
Because they wanted to deliver something really good
bruh did you not notice the production quality? it takes hours to analyse something so fully, and to create a video plan and then edit it all together
I want to understand why people love this movie so much people say that you just don’t get it if you don’t like it but there are massive plot holes that make the movie so unenjoyable
Both Red and Adelaide are villains, as far as I've seen. A handful of scientist sickos experimented with clones and now everyone is to blame (whether or not they knew what was happening). Just because Adelaide was born where she was, her actions are still 1.) Knocking a little girl out 2.) Replacing her in her life, and can't be brushed away. Likewise, just because Red was knocked out and switched, she still 1.) Raised an army against unsuspecting innocent people 2.) Vengefully psychologically tormented people and killed people. A lack of consideration and love on both parts is a contributed to what has happened, but I think the lack of knowledge of what's been going on below is the biggest obstacle. If the Surface people were told, I doubt the population of clones would have continued to stay down there. Most likely there'd be a movement to bring them up and incorporate them into society and humanity. Sure, you'll have your jerks who want bad things, that's always the case throughout history. The point is to go for the good despite that.
Rum Coke omgosh so the movie is actually about false consciousness. The Tethered and the above ground people blame and attack each other when they should be blaming the scientists, just like how the middle class are led to blame the lower class or immigrants or blacks when really they should blame the elites (upper class who don't pay their fair share of taxes, use their status and wealth to cheat their way into high institutions like universities and Congress, give themselves raises and tax cuts, blames immigrants for unemployment, accuses poor people for gaming the system, etc.).
@@allPodd
That's one way to interpret it. Although, with that example, I see it going more like: The Tunnelers assume all Surfacers are to blame, so the Tunnelers attack and kill everyone above, when they should AT LEAST have gone after the Scientists. Since the Surfacers are being attacked, and all they know is that they were having a lunch at a park when suddenly some random dopplegangers are out to kill them, they defend themselves-- as anyone would, if they saw themselves in a red jumpsuit coming at them with scissors in hand and murder glinting in their eyes. The Tunnelers were told (by Red-Adelaide) that they have reason to be upset by Surfacers, and that they should rise up, attack and kill, and replace them all-- and like sheeple they went along with her, bc her skill list is full of "how to organize mass murder, sewing red jumpsuits, acquiring identical scissors somehow" and "teaching them to read/talk, call for help, make a new life without bloodshed" wasn't on the agenda that day-- just like how the Tunneler did it to her. (Although, not sure if Red SAID she was a Surfacer beforehand. That could have potentially pegged her as someone to kill in the eyes of the Tunnelers, why does she get a pass? With what mindset they seem to have been taught, I think the Tunnelers should congratulate the Former-Tunneler-Addy for succeeding in replacing her Surface-Dweller-Addy, then kill Red-Addy, and then do it to their own counterparts on the surface.).
If I were to compare this to our 'modern' times, I'd say that would be hard. There are more variables than simply "They say this/Did that/Blamed that person". I'd have to keep in mind some things: Red and Adelaide are both WRONG. Both are villains. No one chose to listen, to sit, to talk, to find a path to unity, to offer or give forgiveness (from the Scientists, and also, an apology to poor 11 yr old Former-Surface-Addy who was knocked out!) . If I were to truly try to compare it our current times, to fit our day and age in what I see happening in the movie so far, I'd say first: everyone is the villain. Elite class, middle class, poor class, all ethnicities-- all of them are the bad guy (at least in the eyes of whoever is considered the "Tunnelers"). And apparently the only answer one side (specifically the "Tunneler") sees as the solution is to battle it out until we've got bodies strewn across America. We don't get to know what solution the Surfacers would have preferred, bc they were not asked or talked with. All the Surfacers find out is "OH CRAP, MY GRAMMA IS TRYING TO SHANK MY GRAMMA WITH SCISSORS!!"
I do think awareness is a big factor, but second to that is compassion, mercy, forgiveness, and bring Justice to the actual perpetrators, and not assuming "Surface= Bad guys; kill them all."
So it's a horror movie about class war. Like purge only good. Also Wisecrack's video on this goes over alot of symbolism for this.
Another Thriller reference in there: At the end, the smile that Adelaide gives her suspicious son in the ambulance, mirrors the one MJ does when, after reassuring his gf that all is good, he turns to the camera, with the yellow monster eyes and the final chilling laugh.
I'm surprised that nobody here is blown away about the fact that there was a reference for The Lost Boys in the movie. That was really brilliant!
This reminds me of the twins, June and Jennifer Gibbons. The twins that spoke a secret language and decided one of them had to die to be totally free.
you made me look this up, damn
Woa, very interesting but tragic story.
I looked it up and this story is heartbreaking. I’m an identical twin myself and it’s horrible for me to imagine losing my twin sister …
The influences of the films shown in the beginning is so clever, as they’re dated in that time period and will have been viewed by a young Adelaide in her childhood(as well as hand across America). I love your idea of having everything v having nothing, so the short period of having everything in her childhood is what she based her entire plan on to resurface and take back the above ground world, it was her only point of reference in life. It’s not only a film reference to things that inspired the movie, but Jordan Peele also manages to work into the actual logic of the film itself. Great analysis!!
When Red stops developing in the underground world, it’s not unexpected.
She’s been denied the life she once had and the company she once had. Not to mention that the world above kept changing with time. Changes in environment can have psychological effects on a person, and that left Red stunted.
The house of mirrors is used as a portal to the underground. I found that to be interesting.
I got lost in one of those as a 4 y o and all I remember is panicking and I kept running into the glass over and over every where I turned, I couldn’t walk in a straight line but I saw my mother and brother across the room and couldn’t get to them. Luckily my aunts band came from nowhere and she snatched me back in line. I was hysterical (also dealing with the realization that my mother didn’t realize I was lost, but my aunt did, lol). Needless to say, that scene freaked me out, and made me wonder how many other toddlers have experienced that?
Man i love you guys. It feels like im in college qgain and leaning about a class when i watch these vids because i think about it and i want to talk and learn some ones eles take on it. Thank you for the lessons and the teaching that i wanna cone bavk and learn more
A year ago “US” was a cautionary tale about privilege, injustice, and “other”-ness. Now it is June, 2020....
Great breakdown and perspective as always!
I actually saw it twice and was a little shook and confused that I rooted for imposter Adelaide (real Red).
Even if she was an imposter, what were her options? To do what she did or to live her all life in the underground? One could hate her from some simplified black or white morality standpoint, but considering the despair of her life, maybe not so much?
I loved this episode of Ending Explained! You know, I was just talking to my boyfriend about how I honestly love Us, the film. It's a film I think went over a lot of people's heads, for a myriad of reasons. But I believe, once we actually take the time to try and understand, and once we put all the puzzle pieces together, this is a film worthy of accolades and praise, because as you guys said, it causes us to think, and to question ourselves. Thank you guys for such a great in-depth look at this film.
Swan Lake might be a better connection than Nutcracker. Swan Lake is about a princess who is turned into a Swan and replaced by a dark doppelganger.
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I like how the videos explaining the movie are better than the movie itself.
This is one of my top 3 favorite channels on RUclips. I still, personally, wish it was called Screen Prism.
I watched the video on why it was changed, so I understand...but I don't understand XD
This is the best Analysis of this film on RUclips. Period. Great job! Love your content!
I love this channel because it teaches me to be a better human and I respect it's absolute genius. Sheer purity.
A good foreshadow of the twist is the fact when Adelaide teaches Jason to follow the song snapping their fingers. If you pay attention, she's NOT following the musics tempo. This shows that the under people are not musical, because they were never exposed to it.
marilucs the Tethered lacked soul . No rhythm. They were too slow. ( snap on beat scene ) Which also proves that Jason is switched also . Pluto can light a lighter/Matches and Jason can’t .... when it should be the other way around . :)
Also Jason keeps talking about a magic trick that he learned last summer but don’t even know what it does ???? . It was never a magic trick . He just too slow to light a lighter lol
Great video, but her voice is not hoarse from disuse. She has Spasmodic Dysphonia after a trauma to her throat. Lupita explains this in several interviews. It even sparked controversy among people with the same disorder for being portrayed as monsters.
She said it was INSPIRED by the disorder, not a product of it.
5:16 "Regular family" what kind of family chucks and jives to songs about drugs
Best analysis I've heard so far. Well done! Great movie. It's not without it's flaws, but I felt the overall tone of the movies creepiness and message deeply.
A year later and I still can't get over the fact the title is both "Us" and the "United States"
Yes and the U in the movie title has the same font style as the U in United States in the Preamble.
The line “We’re Americans” gave me chills when i first saw it.
I loved this movie. The only thing that bothered me was that I guessed the big twist the moment Adelaide's mother said she "wanted her daughter back"
Wow, I didn’t get the switch until it showed it bu5 I got little inklings, I guessed the connection between hands across America because of the red jumpsuits, aka the trailer
@@MaRyaYTOfficial I just figured bc it was a doppelganger, they could swap places. It didnt show their interaction, so I assumed but i was pleased with the ending. I cant wait for Peele's next film. Hopefully it's more horror.
The real twist is Jason, whether he’s a tethered or not
Same, I was disappointed at the end because I thought the twist was pretty apparent. But the film is doing much more than just trying to surprise you on the initial viewing, so I can’t fault it for that.
This movie honestly makes me feel stupid asf, sooo many things going on, it's crazy.
A teacher ones told her class the one u are when noone is looking is the real u
Very true. There's the social us and the real us
Academy Award Winner Jordan Peele: BUNNIES AREN'T JUST CUTE LIKE EVERYBODY SUPPOSES!
THEY'VE GOT THEIR HOPPY LEGS AND TWITCHY LITTLE NOSES!
AND WHAT'S WITH ALL THE CARROTS???
WHAT DO THEY NEED SUCH GOOD EYESIGHT FOR ANYWAY????????
BUNNIES!
BUNNIES!
IT MUST BE BUNNIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Greatest modern horror director: Things I'm afraid of; sissors. Bunnies. Myself...
Omg yassss!! I was thinking the same thing lmaooo
Tim in Monty Python and the Holy Grail tried to warn us about the rabbit too. But did we listen? Naaaaaaaw, naw!
Nasty sharp pointy teeth.
Excellent analysis !
I really hope that someone sees this.
Anywho, it was explained that those from the underground were failed test experiments from the government (supposedly) created to control the ones above ground. When it was explained that it failed, they were left down there. However, when Red and Adelaide switched, “Adelaide” (the tethered) took up ballet, and Red learned it from her. Adelaide was the actual tethered, and she was able to control Red through dance and (supposedly) other acts. Which means that the experiment wasn’t a complete failure. Red and Adelaide were outliers.
Also, this might have to do with the fact that they “could duplicate the body but not the soul.” Perhaps this means that ppl and their tethers have passions/talents that they both share despite their circumstances. And because of that, either one could control the other, or maybe, the original person could control the person doing that act whether the tethered is above ground or currently moving and thinking on their own free will. That maybe why the son could control when his tethered did when fire was present, or why the white mom’s tethered knew how to apply lip gloss without ever seeing it because they’re both vain at heart.
Sounds like a stretch but who even knows 🤷🏽♀️
Maybe the tethered were simply a counter measure against nuclear fallout created during the Cold War. The tethered live in a giant fallout shelter basically.
I didn't watch the movie yet but the scene or the boy at the beach at 6:01 fives me major vibes of" the onces who walked away from omelace" which i think connests pretty well the the theam of living one's life based on others sufferings
No, her voice sounds like that when she speaks, because Red damaged her larynx when she choked her out as a kid, and there was no medical attention down there to fix it.
"We realised in cheering for Adelaide we were preserving an unequal system" or because the other side just brutally murdered 2 people
The tethered basically represent a revolution of the disenfranchised against the franchised so of course blood is gonna get spilled
@@armandharris100 since when does being unprivileged give the right to kill? Or the excuse to do so? Is it the fault of those who didnt know theses people even existed that they were created and left down there? More and more i can see ties to this move and the real world as those in the real world blame those who had nothing to do with the situation they are in and simply want to take everything because they feel entitled
You have a basic understanding of the world if you think underprivileged people are just entitled and want things, they want to be equal which is not wrong or unfair. You just prefer the current power structure where you have and others don’t which sounds more like the actual definition of entitlement. People who have nothing to lose resort to violent revolutions all the time, real human history across the globe can account for that. They’re “detethering” themselves for the real ones, red and Adelaide are unique in that they actually switched lives so red wants revenge, the other clones have no real knowledge of the world above just that they have this horrible life and are stuck in these cycles because of their counterparts, they killed their originals to “free” themselves.
@@AlzillaRoxxx I have a very good understanding thank you, i grew up in a home where we didnt have much of anything even with both parents working and yet now I have a great deal as i worked hard to get where i am. Nothing was given to me i earned it, and though i dont make as much as say bill gates I would never believe in any way i deserve what he has as i know what its like to work to get what i have and people feel that somehow they are entitled to my hard work. Also not having what others have isnt an excuse or justification in any degree to want to take it or kill for it. In fact this move portrays this quite well in that those underground feel that because they look like someone else and have gone through what they have they are therefore entitled to take what they want. Its a childish nature, and you could even argue that they are childlike but then you lose the comparison to the real world because people who think like these individuals in this movie do are not children.
Jay Allen so basically every revolution ever, we don’t want to praise and support the tethered because they committed murder but Americans celebrate Independence Day, Indians commemorate their Independence Day and other countries celebrate theirs and their civil wars even though it’s the same thing, fighting and murdering to win the rights you think you deserve. How is this any different? It’s only because it’s a microcosm that you think differently.
Are we going to ignore that fact that how amazing Lupita Nyong's voice sounds?
Dear The Take, thank you so much for this analysis! A recent personal goal is to stand up for what’s right as I tend to shy away from going against popular opinion. Homophobia was expressed at a recent family event ... and I was thankful to have your voices from this analysis in my head. Where I once would have been silent and complicit, I singly stood up for inclusion. I’ve never been braver :) thanks for helping guide me there.
This is by far my favorite video from the take. Thank you for the insight I've been trying to figure this movie out ever since I saw it four months ago.
Great video... I now understand what this movie was trying to say.
Thank you so much for making this video, screenprism. I personaly not a horror movie watcher and when my friends tell me this movie is so good, I just knew that it have important things to say. This video helps me so much
Haven’t way the full vid but when Red says “If it weren’t for you I might’ve never danced.” This is also a hint because The Tethered were meant to “puppet” their above-ground counterparts. So Red/Real Adelaide began dancing when Adelaide/actual Tethered began dancing
Amazing video as always, just one comment: I don’t think Red’s voice sounds like that from disuse. I read somewhere that it sounds like that because she was choked by the other girl in the house of mirrors. That messed up her voicebox apparently
This is one of those that will not go away. Masterpiece.
I personally interpreted the Jaws t-shirt as a symbol for the “villain” pulling the protagonist under into the unknown
Even just thinking about this film has put me on edge, between the Red family breaking in and them getting away on the boat was the most afraid I've been watching any media since I was 14 watching the Woman In Black play (and further back, when I was 8 watching Night of the Living Dummy lol). Doppelgangers are soooooo scary.
*I want that 'Thriller' t-shirt* 😊💖
1975 is the year of the rabbit in Japan and 1986 -1975 = 11.
Scientific American Mind did an article back in 2007 about Oedipus Complex where a friend was scared to open the door for a friend he/she has known for years. The title of the article was Body Snatchers.
She’s not hoarse from dis use she got her voice box crushed by the other Adelaide
Who else assumed they switched literally after seeing the first scene?
I did too! I was disappointed that I somewhat predicted it. haha
@@RocknCorruptrepublic Same, I still liked the movie but it would've been alot cooler when the big reveal happened if I hadn't known it for the whole movie haha
@@pongo5000 yeah, the only saving grace there was that I got distracted by the scenes that came after. I was like "wait what if that's not even the same kid? They didn't actually show what happened". But since it wasn't addressed in the scenes that followed I mostly dismissed it haha.
@@RocknCorruptrepublic Haha that makes sense I just remember noticing all the things that showed they swapped like the whole her "tethered" being able to talk and her automatically knowning the way to the underground place, which I guess saves me a repeat viewing 😂
I def got it before the end
Yes! Yes!
Bravo, Jordan Peele!
I loved this movie, but, to be honest, I could not figure out the complete message. I thought it was about inequality due to racial divides, then when they showed the many different clones, I thought, well, this is about social class. But, now I see the meaning more clearly.
I have to see this movie again.
Well done.
@Michael Freed Great point!
I am going to have to own this movie👌
Jordan Peele is a genius so underrated
It's like the shadow, by Carl Jung.
There's something so obvious in the film, so obvious in fact that we fail to notice.
Eventually, your unconfronted problems, confront you and give you hell. That's partly the principle of the message.
Except that these aren’t OUR “unconfronted”, that’s not a real word by the way, problems. We, in this movie, had no idea this problem existed. And this problem murdered the fuck out of us. This movie does exactly what the BLM movement does. Blames people that had nothing to do with the problem for the problem. While completely misconstruing the actual problem into something that isn’t actually a problem. His solution is to murder a bunch of people who didn’t know the problem existed. That’s not gonna fix the problem. So the principal message is shit!
I think a good reference is missing here. Zora says in the car that they all ignore the end of the world and that everybody is mind controlled due to flouridization. Also that her tethered is way faster than she is but she also said maybe she doesnt want to run. and later on, she lands some quite good hits xD
"Us" and "Sympathy For Mr.Vengeance" would make a great double feature
11:01 very true and interesting. I love Jordan Peele's way of thinking in relation to his horror films
This is the second time this week that I've heard someone mention HG Wells' "The Time Machine"-- guess its going on the watch list!
I watched this movie and had trouble sleeping for at least a week it psychologically scared me so much.
dwoollery it’s Jeremiah 11:11 and with the Tethered coming up on surface 33 years later. That’s 11 22 33. The connection of the mind body and soul
@@ssippilandelta4365 ahhhhh.
Jordan Peele has a lot of talent of horror.
Hell yes, ScreenPrism. Best analysis on this movie so far.