The real Adelaide was so messed up from the trauma of being switched she actually FORGOTTEN what it was like to live on the surface. despite being from the surface. once you see the movie the true context of everything takes place. everything has a double meaning. she is kind of a antihero. seeig the horrors of the tethered she well deserved her revenge and the avenge of the poor people
My thing is, why is she explaining to the clone about the tethers? How did she know all of that? I know that they switched but she shouldn’t even know about the government or how they clone people
@@MrBGP006 Ok. The same way the real adelaide forgotten what it was like to live on the surface The Clone along with suppressing the memories of stealing her life she too forgotten what it was like as a tethered. The real Adelaide obviously was told by the tethered of how they came to be after learning their language. and also long with feeling sorry for them won their affection
@@MrBGP006 She was venting out her pain. She was made to do a switcheroo against her will and she wants to tell her Tethered twin, that she is going to pay for what she did to her, the human Adelade
@@bowjana8128 yes, the original thethered Adelaide was the one from the mirror and she brought the Adelaide from the surface to the world of thethered and they both forgot how the life was for both of them before they met
Is that where umbrae gets her weird smile from? Does umbrae get that smile from her grandfather who was Red's tethered dad (Weyland is the name of Red's tethered father )
Your local Hurricane Tortilla she smiles like that cause she was born laughing. But also because Zora don’t smile a lot but you noticed her expression changed when Don asked her to get off his car
@@ssippilandelta4365 I still don't get why she was born laughing, I always thought that umbrae got that smiling and laughing all the time from her grandfather for some reason. Umbrae and Weyland seemed very creepy
“I never stopped thinking about you. How things could’ve been. How you could’ve taken me with you.” This line is probably the most powerful one in the film to me. It moved me when I first saw it and it still does now. That aching sense of longing. If you would just reach out and help me things could’ve been so different.
So like, homelessness and all that fun and fine. She takes her with her to be sisters. Can someone who actually understands this movie and its full themes tell me how it isn't a giant plot whole with a thought about how we view homeless people as lost and forgotten, but answers no solutions or help? Like this movie was good don't get me wrong. But it wasn't a finished idea. At all.
I don't understand that line. Why would the girl from the surface be asking the tethered to take her (the first - one from surface) with the second down to the gloomy life? considering the twist I don't get that line at all
@@jamesgabrielmartin9568 Red (Original) is saying she wondered how it could've been if Adelaide (Clone) and her went back up to the surface together instead being forced to switch places
I feel its also crazy for the reason that she feels she is the clone (because most of her life she literally group in the clones place), because she forgot she was human. She remembered the switch but forgot everything else and its like she was raised down/born there from that point on basically. An and explanation for everyone who is confused about the saying: She is saying as if she herself (Red) Original could've been taken herself with/by the clone to surface because she probably has been in the underground place for a while now.
I always felt it was Jordan Peele commenting on privilege and our impulse to achieve it at the cost of another person’s potential. Instead of working out a solution to benefit BOTH parties. For every success or happiness we have, in a way, it takes the place of someone else’s opportunity. It’s also a comment on how your life has a mirror opposite. You drive to your destination safely. Someone else will crash. You might survive an attack. Someone else won’t. You ate food. Someone else starved.
For some reason, seeing the comparaison between the above and where the clones (not sure how to spell tethered) live was the most disturbing scene for me, and it still is The only scene that kinda creeped me out
Theyre bond to the counterparts so they do exactly as they do, but they don't have the same things as they did above so they did it with the stuff they had
Red was raped multiple times by the tethered version of Adelaide a husband, because they had to mimic everything, and the children were ripped out of her body against her will, and she was a normal kid abducted and forced to live underground with a bunch of zombies, no matter WHAT, Adelaide is the villain not red, super evil and she realizes at the end and smiles about it
Fletcher Miller Movie Reviews that’s a great catch lol man I’ve watched this movie 13 times and picked up on about 97% of the film I couldn’t make out certain images in the film. I knew the looked different but I didn’t even notice the shirt was flipped inside out.
Jordan Peele drew from many horror classics: Tethered jumpsuits - Michael's jacket in Thriller Tethered single gloves - Michael's signature glove Tethered introduction - Michael Myers in Halloween Santa Cruz and Beach - Lost Boys/JAWS The Tethered basement - Freddy's Boiler Room from Nightmare on Elm Street Premise - Twilight Zone inspired Jason - Jason Voorhees of Friday the 13th Tethered Neighbor Twins - The Shining
Agreed it was wel deserved. Oscars are bullshit at this point tho , only one black woman has one an Oscar for a leading role , and for whatever reason horror films don’t often get nominated
It really gets you thinking. The Tethered lived out their lives copying their counterparts above them and didn’t have a purpose or personality. But when Adelaide switched with Red and started dancing she was able to think for herself, therefore building her personality. Just like with children, they’re taught how to write, dance, draw, and speak for themselves. That’s what the government should have done with the Tethered.
Saber Entertainment you have a great point. It’s symbolic of the tethered not speaking meaning no worldly things meant anything to them. Jeremiah 11:11 and after 33 years the come up on the surface the The tethered displayed 11 22 33. Connecting the mind body and soul. The conscious killing the subconscious way of thinking that’s why they were attacking with their right hand
@@ssippilandelta4365 That is interesting. So many double meanings. I saw it as the tethered were the marginalized versions of people and it took a revolution for them to come out and "kill" the oppressors and demonstrate to the world that with an opportunity they could do the things less marginalized people couldn't do. ( the hands across america stuff)
Ray Rayz with Tethered not speaking means none of the worldly things anything to them. Race, religion, politics doesn’t matter to them they all have had the same mission to unite as one. If they could talk then everything would matter to them and they would have crumbled
yes but fake Adelaide still never bad the free will. dancing is taught, speaking is taught. none of them are free will or original thinking. you can acquire a certain skill if you follow the set rules. i think that’s why during battle against real Adelaide, she struggled. because it was an open battle. no rules. against someone who can think freely for themselves.
She has one, but just like leo dicaprio in wolf of wall street he deserve the Oscar in that film than in the revanent, Lupita deserved here than in 12 years slave.
Lou Fay to warn other people not to waste their time. I don’t wanna be on their level not even if my life depended it on. I’m a computer scientist, actually something you really need to be intelligent to even be able to do, now actor on the other hand 😂 you don’t even need a degree for that job you clown and why are you so salty was your **** mother present in the movie or what’s going on with you ? You lil girl 👧🏻
You know, after the plot twist, "Red" was right. Why couldn't "Adelaide" take her with her? They could've even worked with the tethered together to force the higher ups to find a way to untether them (without killing the other doppleganger). They're the ones who caused it after all. And yeah, I know that the original people who started the project have died years ago, but someone in the government had to have been told this secret, right?
Come to think of it, it's extremely possibly to think someone might have spilled the beans on this "cloning" experiment I read up on after I saw this movie. But then again, this movie has its mystery that seems to play with the audiences perspective on what is being shown
Alice Veil I think of someone was told about that secret they would have been killed off too just to keep it a secret I mean look at how mysteriously the people from the “first” moon landing died so close together
I think it's so interesting that the Tethered are treated like monsters - but when you remove one from its environment and raise it as a human, you almost can't tell the difference. And when you take a human child down there, the human child becomes one of them. It shows that they weren't born monsters - they were turned into monsters by their environment.
THIS is what a horror movie SHOULD be. Not the modern day paranormal activity jumpscare demon possessed insidious doll cemetery BS. THIS is a horror movie. 10/10.
@@magnum69420 I haven’t got Netflix so I purchased us from the PlayStation store such a great decision such a weird film but also so intriguing and I didn’t realise there was so much more to the whole story than I first thought
My question is...why Red (the real Adelaide) didn’t try to find the exit instead of living her entire existence in that hell?Even if she is tethered with the fake Adelaide she wasn’t forced to imitate her so she could escape whenever she wanted...
But it still doesn’t make sense because one of our primal instinct is to survive so she could search for a way out...she was even very close to the entrance of the hall of mirrors...I love the movie and it’s meaning but I consider this a plot hole...
Undòmiel she felt sorry for the people below. Once she danced ( which she says that’s when the miracle happened ) - they seen her as a God/Leader and she put the plan in motion. Not a plot hole - Just a metaphor for The Revelation
Teddie912 the metaphor is clear and strong but it’s not sustained by the plot...she could avoid to spend years down there just searching for a way out and then revealing to the world the truth about the tethered...there are other plot holes such as the facility completely clean,the clones that magically have the same clothes,the thousands of rabbits that like the tethered survived for generations...so if you judge the movie as a sort of parable I agree that is great but the plot has many problems in terms of logic...
I get this question and agree because she didn’t start to dance till later on while she was younger like right after she freed herself and saw she had been switched why not run away since she wasn’t the original tethered
Keep in mind that Red says that she believes it was the government who built that place, she does not confirm it, she says she believes that, therefore, it is unknown who or what for
bright dreams films, think about it, they allowed the Tethered to wreak havoc until the end and no tanks were brought in. A military base is just north of the area, not that far. Just choppers at the end. This movie is heavily layered it’s really deep Peele is a genius.
Yeah, it could also beign tied to some sort of supernatural force, if we take into account that souls exist in the universe where the movie is set, we can presume that some form of supernatural entity was at work. Maybe it WAS an entity brought into the world by the government, and then left with the tethered to provide them with food and clothes that matches the ones above.
I believe just like our government this movies government version also study and experiment on *magic/black arts* in secrecy 🎭 Hopefully more would be explain if there is ever a sequel 🎥
The first scene where the families meet eachother and the tethered dad starts to scream was easily one of the most scariest things I've felt in my entire life... I don't know why but it just gives me the absolute chills
Winston Duke never scared me, simply because I know I could fight him. I've both knocked out and choked out guys his size. But that little girl would kill me through sheer fear.
Also I love how Red pauses after saying "exactly like you". This basically means she's thinking about why her people were kept at the bottom despite being humans as well. This is such a good scenario for how privelage works in modern society
You can say what you want about this film but knowing the fact that after Red, who didn't know any different, switched places with Adelaide, the poor girl went from a normal reality to the macabre setting underground and had to witness all the disturbing happenings down there every day until she grew up is something that lives rent fucking free in my mind. The loneliness and complete abandon she must've felt must have been agonizing
“You could’ve taken me with you” makes so much more sense after the twist happens. In fact, most big lines in this movie have a completely different meaning after the twist. This movie was incredible.
This actually isn't true. Red says that her and Adelaide were born "special"... the government wanted the tethered to control the real people, but they failed. Except with Adelaide. Adelaide IS able to control Red, the real person. This is why she was able to switch places with her, take over her life, and why Red suffers the same way the other tethered do. Adelaide was the only success in the experiment. Her children can control Red's children as well, demonstrated when Adelaide's son makes Pluto walk into the fire. This is the only successful example of tethered controlling the "real" people they way they were designed to. Red realizes this, and is only able to break free because she works hard at it and knows the truth, and is therefore able to lead the other tethered to the surface.
@and i oop it's genetics. Siblings dont all have the same genes. I'll use myself as an example. My siblings have different facial features. My oldest sister has arched eyebrows, bigger eyes, and a medium size nose, and looks a bit more like my mom AND dad. While I, the 4th child out of 5, have features more of just my mom. I have a round face, a button nose, narrow eyes, and eyebrows that just a regular rounded ones. It's to the point where now that I am 21, people mistake me and my mother to be sisters. Very uncomfortable when that happens but again, it's genetics. I picked more of my mother's genetics than my father's. We're taught this at school in the 6th grade, try to keep up.
I suddenly understand everything. They were born different because they were the only tethered that actually worked as intended (to some degree). Red’s tethered guided her to the entrance to the underground, not the other way around.
All I thought about watching all the tethered basically suffer is how scary it would feel to be on a roller coaster without actually being on one. Like you just standing there and it feels like your falling, you have all that adrenaline for nothing
@@Space_Ghost_HunterI think I judged this movie too harshly because I have a bad habit of making sure absolutely everything in a movie is justified. Like the premise is kinda dumb if you think about it’s specifics, but the metaphor it’s representing is a really impressive one. Kinda like Tenet, the plot makes quite literally zero sense but the execution is beyond incredible.
@@willjackson6522 Yeah the metaphor is awesome, and I would love to see the idea of an abandoned underground facility that spans the nation filled with insane clones with no oversight. But it just isn't fully fleshed out in the movie.
@@RonPaul42069 A few I was wondering about after giving this a rewatch: if the real Adelaide was handcuffed to the bed, who set her free? And if she's the "original" from the surface, then why was she forced to mirror her tethered? How did she adapt to eating raw rabbit? If the tethered could execute their plan and appoint Red as a leader, then do they have free will? What force drives them to mirror those above? If the tethered Adelaide found the entrance to the tunnels so easily, why didn't any others do the same? Why didn't they escape years ago? Someone did suggest here that the tethered version of Adelaide is the only "successful" version of the experiment in that she is a clone that can control her surface version. Which explains why the real Adelaide had to mirror her tether, despite originally being from the surface. But I am not sure about the other questions. Of course, none of that is actually important, since the movie is clearly metaphorical.
I've seen others say this so I must just be dense, but can you plz explain? The real girl is saying the clone could have taken her where? Id get it if it were "you could've come back for me"
@@mazurbeemshe's saying the clone could've left the fun house with her instead of strangling her and taking her place, leaving her to suffer in her place. She's saying, that the real Red could've gone above with the real Adelaide
I feel bad for the real Adelaide, I know the clone was down there, but still she did something unforgivable, now I understand, red was trying to take back her life.
That’s because when the counter parts experience on the surface the clones experience too. They share a soul, what the counterpart see and do, the clones see and do it too thinking it’s real which is why they mimic.
If you've never been inside of a tenament housing projects in Brooklyn, Queens, Yonkers or The BRONX you'd never understand. The Hood is Diabolical. And yes for some it is as simple as "taking an elevator" or being born with a silver spoon but something so simple can be the hardest concepts to grasp. Like Global Crisis just stop doing what's hurting the planet "simple but so hard for the powers that be to grasp.
I feel like Adelaide is the real villain. She took the real Adelaide and took her place and left her with the tethered instead of just taking her with her to the surface. Plus the fact she just smiled after finally killing her makes it more evident.
Jeremiah 11:11 - Therefore this is what the LORD says: 'I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them.‘
Because once one up there and one below that where they copy each other. There times they have freedon but Red said she wanted to make a statement and get revenge which took years to plan because she has to learn how speak like tether and live with them. She even explains it in the video.
@@dontreadmychanneldescripti7104 Well when she was first down there she didn't know about it at the time and when she got older she eventually did know, but she wanted to get revenge and make a statement that took many years to plan. She just had to pick the right time
An underground city that housed clones of everyone on Earth and said clones somehow survived without any resources for generations after they were abandoned by humans who apparently didn’t see a problem with leaving these things unattended for decades makes sense?
@@SonicStantz not even a city lmao, an underground HALLWAY with CLASSROOMS. I'll admit the idea itself is interesting but no way does it make sense. Well said dude.
@SonicStantz yes it makes sense you dumbass because the government couldn't make 2 souls so they abandoned it. They survived down there eating rabbits and went insane copying their counter parts above. You are just uneducated and ignorant. 😅
The POV camera shot from the chalkboard is terrifyingly brilliant. I had never seen a shot like this before and I was gripped to my seat when I had seen this in the theatre
I know this is an old comment, but I'd like to add that it's called a Split Diopter lens, and it allows both the foreground and background subjects to be in focus while maintaining depth of field. It was used a lot/popularized by Brian De Palma.
She got shafted so the Academy could pat themselves on the back for giving Renée Zellweger relevance again after treating her like less than nothing for a decade.
@@AngelofMusic04 true that! Renee should have won an Oscar a long time ago. This was Lupita's race to win this year and they know it. This woman played 2 totally polar opposite characters within the same film. Shame on the Academy!!!
@@holden6104 laugh all you like! It doesn't take away from the fact that she gave a Phenomenal performance! She was more than well deserving than any that were nominated. Also, she's won all of the other prestigious awards outside of the academy beating out your precious choices. So again, laugh away!
I like to think that Adelaide (protagonist) forgot that she was a teathered person for a while, but remembered thanks to her reunion with the teathered family.
I'm pretty sure that's what it is tho. Throughout the movie, you can see her like freaking out and scared or nervous whenever she has flashes of the teathered. Like when the family were holding hands outside their house and she immediately goes "No, no, no, no!" and backs up in fear. It's shown other times too. So she abandoned her past ig, forgot for a while and then yes, remembered with the reunion with teathered family
And she created a fake memory of "how she run away scared after seeing her doppleganger in the hall of mirrors," so real that she believed it in her entire life 'till she started to remember her former life as a tethered.
The actress really showed how talented she is and this is in my mind the best black thriller because of the acting talent she used the evil mother is so dark and evil
Daily reminder: red was raped multiple times by the tethered version of adelaide's man just because they had to mimic everything the humans did down there
@@krisjackson6567 because people think that red (the real adelaine) is the villain when in fact it’s her clone who stole her life from her. And to show how hard her life was in there
@@doomsday7308 It’s really annoying how so many people don’t get that this movie is all symbolism. Too many people are whining about “plot holes” and questions that don’t have answers. This film isn’t about logic, but too many people are trying to use that. People are so annoying.
I love how this plan needed its own scene for it to be explained. When red talked about the differences between her life and Adelaide's at the beginning of the movie, the plan was already clear enough. She has a seething envy and disgust towards people that live above and wants to replace them. Plain as day. No need for exposition.
CyanAries yes his name is Alan he’s a peace walker, and Jeremiah is his tethered that was on beach. Jason felt something was coming but he didn’t know the magnitude of it. Jason is symbolic of Autism
Delta SSiPP I misremembered who Jason was but still, it seems weird to say a character is “symbolic” of autism. Also I read somewhere that since he is half-human and half-tethered he probably is just that. But also like... kids are weird lol.
DeathnoteBB man this movie has so much symbolism in it. Yeah his character is interesting you remember when they were at the beach and one of the twins told Zora your brother is so weird and zora responded he just have a hard time focusing something like that. Yeah he is half tethered but he has more tethered in him where as zora is half too but she has more human in her noticed the kids connection to their parents Jason is closer to Adelaide and Zora is closer to Gabe
So honestly, red was the real little girl- they switched without knowing who was the real or fake, there was this sign of the tethered being real and the actual family being fake, that’s why the tethered came back, so they could have what they owned.
It was hard for me to choose a side. At first I was on the real addys side but then I felt bad for how depressing the life was for the real clone when she was down there. Unlike the other tethers the clone is more aware. She doesn’t fall over and walk like a drunk. She walks and acts like a human. As it was said she was born special. But the real Adelaide didn’t deserve anything. She had to be alone dancing around aimlessly with a damaged voice. She had no control. And when she tried to start a revolution against the privileged we think she’s the bad guy until we see that she’s the original. Original or not one of them has to be sad and alone below and the other has to be happy and free above. But the original Adelaide brings up the question “ Why can’t we both be happy?”. I don’t know
I’m definitely on the fake addys side as someone else said she has a family who it’s obvious she deeply cares for and they love her, bu yeah it is difficult to choose I agree
That cardboard sign that Ferdie is holding saying, "Jeremiah 11:11" is on 2:59 and on 3:01, his counterpart named Jeremiah, does not hold a cardboard sign. Instead, it says 11:11 scars on his forehead.
This is how we learn red is the real Adelaide. Red didnt refer to herself as a tethered or call them "us" like she was one of them. She kept calling them the tethered like they were smth else
A lot of people don’t like that they made the switch known. That they wanted Jordan to keep it ambiguous. But Mat Pat understood that THEY HAD TO MAKE IT SPECIFICALLY KNOWN that Adelaide and her tether switched. The point of the movie is that a girl was replaced AND NO KNEW THE DIFFERENCE .
Just realize Red was actually the one doing the dancing and Addy was not. So that’s why Addy stop dancing because Red stopped. Everything they say feels different in second watch!
@@moltanicalegend9377 and it's even funnier watching an idiot like you trying to crave attention your parents never gave you. But hey, each to their own
"The soul remains one shared by two...." U think what Red is saying here is that the tethered aren't souless, they just have to share the soul they do have with the original person on the surface. I think since the tethered have to mimick their doppelgangers' actions however is because they have less soul than the original person
3:40 is interesting, its where the privileged woman says to the escaped thetered that she could have taken her with her and how different things would be...
wait...but if they were preparing to take over down below....then they weren't really tethered with the ones above anymore right? The ones above wouldn't be doing those movements
Tatjana Ivanova it so much symbolism in this movie i really like it. It’s interesting you mentioning that because part of it is 11 22 33 connecting the mind body and soul. Jeremiah 11:11 + the tethered coming up 33 years later.
@@ssippilandelta4365 Does this mean the real Adelaide was stuck in the underground for 33 + years? She was 8 during the switch so in the present day part of the movie she is in her 40s? OMG clone Adelaide stole like half of the real Adelaide's life. No wonder "Red" is so angry...
It’s a beautiful sequence, but once you know the plot twist you wonder why she didn’t openly say, “You stole my life.” I suppose Adelaide did say she wanted to draw this out, and make the other suffer. 🤷🏻♀️
Well Red implied that she was the clone hence to why she said you coulda taken me with you. It seems as if she was brainwashed to think that she waa the fake just like Adleaide was brainwashed into the one that was running from the Fun House. She was supressing the memories of her being the fake one.
The scenes that freaked me out were when the tethered copied their surface doubles there was the roller-coaster scene the eating "carnival food" scene and the ballet scene
I'll be honest. A lot of those questions will go unanswered for now. They will get significant speculation; some of which will be correct. I wouldn't be surprised if even Jordan Peele couldn't answer some of the questions.
@@magnum69420 it was mentioned that it was a scientific project done by the government, that was later determined to be a fail which led to it being shut down aka locking all the tethereds underground.
US is a great movie but I’d say out of all of Peele’s movies this would probably be the scariest given the wide scale but also the most implausible. There’s the obvious that generations of eating raw meat and no sunlight would lead to so many cases of weaker immune systems, higher risk of heart issues, food poisoning, and a long list of other heath problems that the tethered likely wouldn’t last longer than even two generations. Then you have to consider that even if the tethered experiments were only in California it would still be almost impossible to get a genetic sample of every citizen in the state which means there are some who would never have a tether which means if they have kids they wouldn’t have tethered and so on. You also have to consider specific situations like meeting people in vehicles like planes, needed to be on life support for a while to be kept alive, or even being a premature baby who survived means there would be thousands of cases of people who wouldn’t have tethered counterparts Then the idea of red being the only tether with independence is questionable cause what would happen to a tether who’s surface counterpart died in a way only a surface counterpart could die like a vehicular crash or specific allergic reaction like peanuts or seafood. That tether wouldn’t die cause they aren’t linked by that and therefore would be able to freely choose what to do for themselves. I understand it’s all suspension of disbelief and that none of these things affects the quality of the film but the logistics are even crazier than the Alien with Kirby breath.
If all they had to eat was raw rabbit then combined with the lack of sunlight they’d suffer heart disease, diabetes, overall malnutrition, and die long before the beginning of the movie. They’d die even sooner of the only source of water was from rabbit blood. You could say there was food like wheat to sustain the rabbits but they still would’ve died off ages ago.
The story she told at the house, her speech in the classroom, how she knew everything about the surface. . . It’s like putting the pieces of a sad, disturbing puzzle together.
I really enjoy this film and the central concept is very original and eerie, but the logic does fall apart a bit the more you think about it. Surely the tethered would have died without any medical equipment or hygiene down there and if all their movements were controlled by the ones above? Would the tunnels really be that clean? Where are the toilets? Surely the tunnels would be full of human waste and excrement? Surely the tethered could only eat rabbits if there just happened to be a rabbit near them when their counterpart was eating above? Did they actually have the exact same clothes and if so where did they get them? I suppose you could just assume that the 'government' had put things in place in the tunnels for all this, but it's hard to know since we only see a tiny fraction of them. I still don't quite understand how Red became completely untethered and helped all the others become untethered too so that they could organise and get all the suits and scissors and start the attack. Again, I do really like this film, but I just don't fully understand the logic
I believe just like our government this movies version also study and experiment on *magic/black arts* in secrecy 🎭 Hopefully more would be explain if there is ever a sequel 🎥
Welp I do believe having an evil clone is the most illogical part of all. It’s a heavily layered movie with more symbolical implications beyond practical matters. Sure it’s unrealistic, but so is any other film in the genre, and the plot holes are not necessarily explained but I personally think it’s more sinister to propose that reality for the tethered in such an ambiguous way. To think that there is something/someone providing for them only to prolong their suffering
@@winterpython6163 but how did her dance free their minds? And who was forcing them to copy their above ground counterparts, or is that just part of how they were created? This movie was amazing, but there's definitely a lot of plot holes.
I don’t think the tethered HAD to copy the above people’s actions, my take was that they did it so that they could FEEL something. It was a choice, to attempt to share their counterpart’s experiences, however fleeting and subdued theirs would be in comparison. They share a soul but have their own bodies.
Better question how did Adelaide know she was a tethered. Like she first saw a girl who was her clone how did she know to switch. Also she wasnt copying red she turned around and choked her. Ig my theory would be red as a girl was going through depression somehow Adelaide got more control over the two as you can switch control. Since red didnt know who she was she was more vulnerable to being taken over.
God showed her the path because she wasn’t actually tethered and the night they came together. I feel like she’s referring to her, taking her with her as in not leaving her and switching places with her! That’s why all the tethered thought she was different is because she was.
The real Adelaide was so messed up from the trauma of being switched she actually FORGOTTEN what it was like to live on the surface. despite being from the surface. once you see the movie the true context of everything takes place. everything has a double meaning. she is kind of a antihero. seeig the horrors of the tethered she well deserved her revenge and the avenge of the poor people
My thing is, why is she explaining to the clone about the tethers? How did she know all of that? I know that they switched but she shouldn’t even know about the government or how they clone people
@@MrBGP006 Ok. The same way the real adelaide forgotten what it was like to live on the surface The Clone along with suppressing the memories of stealing her life she too forgotten what it was like as a tethered. The real Adelaide obviously was told by the tethered of how they came to be after learning their language. and also long with feeling sorry for them won their affection
@@MrBGP006 She was venting out her pain. She was made to do a switcheroo against her will and she wants to tell her Tethered twin, that she is going to pay for what she did to her, the human Adelade
I have no clue what happened in this film so was they switched
@@bowjana8128 yes, the original thethered Adelaide was the one from the mirror and she brought the Adelaide from the surface to the world of thethered and they both forgot how the life was for both of them before they met
The way the tethered father grins is just plain horrifying
11thHouseFilms he was symbolic of the 80s crack epidemic
The Beast the 60s oh wow
Is that where umbrae gets her weird smile from? Does umbrae get that smile from her grandfather who was Red's tethered dad (Weyland is the name of Red's tethered father )
Your local Hurricane Tortilla she smiles like that cause she was born laughing. But also because Zora don’t smile a lot but you noticed her expression changed when Don asked her to get off his car
@@ssippilandelta4365 I still don't get why she was born laughing, I always thought that umbrae got that smiling and laughing all the time from her grandfather for some reason. Umbrae and Weyland seemed very creepy
“I never stopped thinking about you. How things could’ve been. How you could’ve taken me with you.” This line is probably the most powerful one in the film to me. It moved me when I first saw it and it still does now. That aching sense of longing. If you would just reach out and help me things could’ve been so different.
what would have happened if Adelaide took red with her to her parents
So like, homelessness and all that fun and fine. She takes her with her to be sisters. Can someone who actually understands this movie and its full themes tell me how it isn't a giant plot whole with a thought about how we view homeless people as lost and forgotten, but answers no solutions or help? Like this movie was good don't get me wrong. But it wasn't a finished idea. At all.
I don't understand that line. Why would the girl from the surface be asking the tethered to take her (the first - one from surface) with the second down to the gloomy life? considering the twist I don't get that line at all
@@jamesgabrielmartin9568 Red (Original) is saying she wondered how it could've been if Adelaide (Clone) and her went back up to the surface together instead being forced to switch places
I feel its also crazy for the reason that she feels she is the clone (because most of her life she literally group in the clones place), because she forgot she was human. She remembered the switch but forgot everything else and its like she was raised down/born there from that point on basically. An and explanation for everyone who is confused about the saying: She is saying as if she herself (Red) Original could've been taken herself with/by the clone to surface because she probably has been in the underground place for a while now.
It's pretty sad once you realise adelaide was implying that rex didn't have to hurt her or take her life, they could've lived as sisters :((
the real adelaide is red. She proly took that name cuz thats what she b wearing. the tethered one took her place when they was kids
@@daevid3927 thats what they said
ik adelaide deserved better
I always felt it was Jordan Peele commenting on privilege and our impulse to achieve it at the cost of another person’s potential. Instead of working out a solution to benefit BOTH parties. For every success or happiness we have, in a way, it takes the place of someone else’s opportunity. It’s also a comment on how your life has a mirror opposite. You drive to your destination safely. Someone else will crash. You might survive an attack. Someone else won’t. You ate food. Someone else starved.
@@milesgaunt6767 duiu andastan
i know its all serious but i just wanna give her a glass of water
Me too!
Yep, milk too
I would’ve laughed my ass off when she’s talking then probably died because my dumbass started laughing at her.
@Lou Fay choking doesn't do that
She was choked she don’t need watrr
For some reason, seeing the comparaison between the above and where the clones (not sure how to spell tethered) live was the most disturbing scene for me, and it still is
The only scene that kinda creeped me out
Theyre bond to the counterparts so they do exactly as they do, but they don't have the same things as they did above so they did it with the stuff they had
@@Only1Left Yeah I know that, but for some reasons it really disturbed me and also pained me
@@user-ip6uf1np1j Yeah it's pretty gross what happened to those rabbits
@@Only1Left they had to eat something though.
@@jazzydrawz3792 Yeah your right, so instead of Red teach them how to cook with the fire Pluto was playing with, they ate the rabbits raw
I would probably go crazy if I got switched out from my own tether.
She did wtf do you mean.
@@wooaahh23 I said I would go crazy if I got switched out. I'm just saying how I would feel if I was in Red place.
@@mr.kingofphenomenal4629 Yes and everyone would dipshit.
@@wooaahh23 There no need call people names espeacilly when nobody did anything to you idiot.
@@wooaahh23 Actually I would love to eat raw rabbits in a basement, brings out the true werewolf ya know?
Red was raped multiple times by the tethered version of Adelaide a husband, because they had to mimic everything, and the children were ripped out of her body against her will, and she was a normal kid abducted and forced to live underground with a bunch of zombies, no matter WHAT, Adelaide is the villain not red, super evil and she realizes at the end and smiles about it
Well the tethered version of the husband was too if you think about it. It's so sad
Yes but let's be real, only one could exist above as the parents would have been too poor to afford their daughters doppel as well.
So does that mean red’s kids are real and the ones above tethered?
Yup
@@onesie1982 maybe half human half tethered
Did you guys notice that reds thriller shirt is inside out. The real Adelaide’s shirt was normal
I think thriller was the inspiration for the tethered’s red outfits
Brandon Layne you are correct and Micheal Myers was the inspiration of the way they were standing in the driveway
Fletcher Miller Movie Reviews that’s a great catch lol man I’ve watched this movie 13 times and picked up on about 97% of the film I couldn’t make out certain images in the film. I knew the looked different but I didn’t even notice the shirt was flipped inside out.
Jordan Peele drew from many horror classics:
Tethered jumpsuits - Michael's jacket in Thriller
Tethered single gloves - Michael's signature glove
Tethered introduction - Michael Myers in Halloween
Santa Cruz and Beach - Lost Boys/JAWS
The Tethered basement - Freddy's Boiler Room from Nightmare on Elm Street
Premise - Twilight Zone inspired
Jason - Jason Voorhees of Friday the 13th
Tethered Neighbor Twins - The Shining
who is producing the shirts>?
Lupita not being nominated for the Oscars for this role is the most disturbing thing ever
that's the real jump scare
Yeah
Agreed it was wel deserved. Oscars are bullshit at this point tho , only one black woman has one an Oscar for a leading role , and for whatever reason horror films don’t often get nominated
Up there with Toni Collette in Hereditary.
She got robbed
It really gets you thinking. The Tethered lived out their lives copying their counterparts above them and didn’t have a purpose or personality. But when Adelaide switched with Red and started dancing she was able to think for herself, therefore building her personality. Just like with children, they’re taught how to write, dance, draw, and speak for themselves. That’s what the government should have done with the Tethered.
Saber Entertainment you have a great point. It’s symbolic of the tethered not speaking meaning no worldly things meant anything to them. Jeremiah 11:11 and after 33 years the come up on the surface the The tethered displayed 11 22 33. Connecting the mind body and soul. The conscious killing the subconscious way of thinking that’s why they were attacking with their right hand
@@ssippilandelta4365 That is interesting. So many double meanings. I saw it as the tethered were the marginalized versions of people and it took a revolution for them to come out and "kill" the oppressors and demonstrate to the world that with an opportunity they could do the things less marginalized people couldn't do. ( the hands across america stuff)
Ray Rayz yeah you right, cause the Tethered also represented the disenfranchised
Ray Rayz with Tethered not speaking means none of the worldly things anything to them. Race, religion, politics doesn’t matter to them they all have had the same mission to unite as one. If they could talk then everything would matter to them and they would have crumbled
yes but fake Adelaide still never bad the free will. dancing is taught, speaking is taught. none of them are free will or original thinking. you can acquire a certain skill if you follow the set rules. i think that’s why during battle against real Adelaide, she struggled. because it was an open battle. no rules. against someone who can think freely for themselves.
It's ironic how a fallen privileged person ended up leading the revolution.
VLP infinity yes
VLP infinity Che Guevara was a doctor before becoming a figurehead for the Cuban Revolution
@The Beast You probably would have rather Cuba remained under Batista
I've heard some theories say that that was supposed to call the story of Moses to mind, although I'm not sure how much I believe that.
Champions come at all sizes - Atom
she did "black swan" in 5 minutes. give lupita the damn oscar
She has one, but just like leo dicaprio in wolf of wall street he deserve the Oscar in that film than in the revanent, Lupita deserved here than in 12 years slave.
Give her all her things!
Laurence H. Collin it was a stunt double doing the ballet. it was a professional ballerina, dancing like that takes many years of dedication lmao
For what ? This wack ass movie with no sense what so ever ... it’s easily top 10 worst movies I’ve ever watched
Lou Fay to warn other people not to waste their time. I don’t wanna be on their level not even if my life depended it on. I’m a computer scientist, actually something you really need to be intelligent to even be able to do, now actor on the other hand 😂 you don’t even need a degree for that job you clown and why are you so salty was your **** mother present in the movie or what’s going on with you ? You lil girl 👧🏻
You know, after the plot twist, "Red" was right. Why couldn't "Adelaide" take her with her? They could've even worked with the tethered together to force the higher ups to find a way to untether them (without killing the other doppleganger). They're the ones who caused it after all. And yeah, I know that the original people who started the project have died years ago, but someone in the government had to have been told this secret, right?
Come to think of it, it's extremely possibly to think someone might have spilled the beans on this "cloning" experiment I read up on after I saw this movie. But then again, this movie has its mystery that seems to play with the audiences perspective on what is being shown
Alice Veil no it’s just red and Adelaide
I think this experiment was the failed predecessor of the experiments in Get Out.
Alice Veil I think of someone was told about that secret they would have been killed off too just to keep it a secret I mean look at how mysteriously the people from the “first” moon landing died so close together
Maybe to better make the point of the movie; No matter how different someone is you should still see them as a person worth helping.
That scene with the tethered mimicking the Rollercoaster but not actually being there themselves freaks me out!
Aces the sounds are the rabbits?
Where are the scientists this makes no sense they said they were a failed experiment they should’ve killed them fucking idiots man
I thought it was kind of funny. Kind of in the same way an npc infinitely runs into a wall when it’s glitching.
I think it's so interesting that the Tethered are treated like monsters - but when you remove one from its environment and raise it as a human, you almost can't tell the difference. And when you take a human child down there, the human child becomes one of them. It shows that they weren't born monsters - they were turned into monsters by their environment.
THIS is the point! Brilliantly said
sheeeesh bro, very well said.
Or lack there of.
THIS is what a horror movie SHOULD be. Not the modern day paranormal activity jumpscare demon possessed insidious doll cemetery BS. THIS is a horror movie. 10/10.
If you think this one is good, try Get Out. Same guy directed it. Jordan Peele. It's even better.
@@blakedevitt6948 sad that isn't on netflix
@@magnum69420 I haven’t got Netflix so I purchased us from the PlayStation store such a great decision such a weird film but also so intriguing and I didn’t realise there was so much more to the whole story than I first thought
@@magnum69420 bruh its on netflix
@@aliahmadkhan6795 us is on netfix, idk about getout though but i already watched it on pirated site lol
My question is...why Red (the real Adelaide) didn’t try to find the exit instead of living her entire existence in that hell?Even if she is tethered with the fake Adelaide she wasn’t forced to imitate her so she could escape whenever she wanted...
Because she said she making a plan to release all the tether which took years to plan.
But it still doesn’t make sense because one of our primal instinct is to survive so she could search for a way out...she was even very close to the entrance of the hall of mirrors...I love the movie and it’s meaning but I consider this a plot hole...
Undòmiel she felt sorry for the people below. Once she danced ( which she says that’s when the miracle happened ) - they seen her as a God/Leader and she put the plan in motion.
Not a plot hole - Just a metaphor for The Revelation
Teddie912 the metaphor is clear and strong but it’s not sustained by the plot...she could avoid to spend years down there just searching for a way out and then revealing to the world the truth about the tethered...there are other plot holes such as the facility completely clean,the clones that magically have the same clothes,the thousands of rabbits that like the tethered survived for generations...so if you judge the movie as a sort of parable I agree that is great but the plot has many problems in terms of logic...
I get this question and agree because she didn’t start to dance till later on while she was younger like right after she freed herself and saw she had been switched why not run away since she wasn’t the original tethered
Keep in mind that Red says that she believes it was the government who built that place, she does not confirm it, she says she believes that, therefore, it is unknown who or what for
bright dreams films, think about it, they allowed the Tethered to wreak havoc until the end and no tanks were brought in. A military base is just north of the area, not that far. Just choppers at the end. This movie is heavily layered it’s really deep Peele is a genius.
Yeah, it could also beign tied to some sort of supernatural force, if we take into account that souls exist in the universe where the movie is set, we can presume that some form of supernatural entity was at work.
Maybe it WAS an entity brought into the world by the government, and then left with the tethered to provide them with food and clothes that matches the ones above.
I believe just like our government this movies government version also study and experiment on *magic/black arts* in secrecy 🎭
Hopefully more would be explain if there is ever a sequel 🎥
@@JesusIsComing-99 yessir
They hide so much from us
All the actors must have had so much fun when playing the tethered people lol
nah they're real tethered
@@magnum69420 lol
I would too
The first scene where the families meet eachother and the tethered dad starts to scream was easily one of the most scariest things I've felt in my entire life... I don't know why but it just gives me the absolute chills
It was scary but his grunts sounded kinda funny lol
The creepiest thing for me is the look the little girl does, looking up and smiling
Winston Duke never scared me, simply because I know I could fight him. I've both knocked out and choked out guys his size. But that little girl would kill me through sheer fear.
This whole movie was funny asf y’all tripping
@@thatoneguy6165yeah alright big guy
Also I love how Red pauses after saying "exactly like you". This basically means she's thinking about why her people were kept at the bottom despite being humans as well. This is such a good scenario for how privelage works in modern society
EXACTLY
That’s not her people that’s her clones people lmao
@@zerogamer935 she genuinely thinks shes a clone though despite being aware of herself being switched
the title is misleading Red IS the real ADELAIDE the clone is the one in white the one that stole her whole life . sure you guys all know that
sorry not the title. the DESCRIPTION is misleading
It was supposed to be a surprise until the very end of the film
Srsly?
@@stevenfucetola2527 true but what if they didn't see the movie
True now what about the one at the end and the rest of the first family alongside the fake one ?
You can say what you want about this film but knowing the fact that after Red, who didn't know any different, switched places with Adelaide, the poor girl went from a normal reality to the macabre setting underground and had to witness all the disturbing happenings down there every day until she grew up is something that lives rent fucking free in my mind.
The loneliness and complete abandon she must've felt must have been agonizing
Well put. That's what makes me like this more than I should.
Red also explained that it was unnatural for two bodies to share the same soul so thats why The Teather didn't work, except for Red and Adelaide.
wowww I finally get it lol thanks
Which theater?
I know I am late and grammar nazis are out of style but...
Tether,Tether,Tether.......
So do both of them have a soul?
Adelaide is a tether so its not possible unless I read it wrong which I probably did
Does that explain why the tethered Adelaide on the surface was not controlled by the Adelaide that was broughten down below
“You could’ve taken me with you” makes so much more sense after the twist happens. In fact, most big lines in this movie have a completely different meaning after the twist. This movie was incredible.
Lupita is a legend after this
I've been a fan of hers since I first saw her in 12 Years a Slave. And I thought she was great in Black Panther!
Lupita was a legend before this
2:29 That’s disturbing. Also, poor rabbits.
Scorpionstrike7 ew, you can’t eat rabbits. Gross.
Johavy Flores They didn’t have anything else to eat.
Johavy Flores “When the shadow was hungry, she had to eat rabbit. Raw. And bloody.”
Scorpionstrike7 so awful
Johavy Flores sadly yes you can go to France they eat them
The tethered saw that Red can control the one above so thats why they made her into this leader.
This actually isn't true. Red says that her and Adelaide were born "special"... the government wanted the tethered to control the real people, but they failed. Except with Adelaide. Adelaide IS able to control Red, the real person. This is why she was able to switch places with her, take over her life, and why Red suffers the same way the other tethered do. Adelaide was the only success in the experiment. Her children can control Red's children as well, demonstrated when Adelaide's son makes Pluto walk into the fire. This is the only successful example of tethered controlling the "real" people they way they were designed to. Red realizes this, and is only able to break free because she works hard at it and knows the truth, and is therefore able to lead the other tethered to the surface.
@and i oop it's genetics. Siblings dont all have the same genes. I'll use myself as an example. My siblings have different facial features. My oldest sister has arched eyebrows, bigger eyes, and a medium size nose, and looks a bit more like my mom AND dad. While I, the 4th child out of 5, have features more of just my mom. I have a round face, a button nose, narrow eyes, and eyebrows that just a regular rounded ones. It's to the point where now that I am 21, people mistake me and my mother to be sisters. Very uncomfortable when that happens but again, it's genetics. I picked more of my mother's genetics than my father's.
We're taught this at school in the 6th grade, try to keep up.
00:21 Can we just take a moment to appreciate how amazing this shot/angle is?
it gives me goosebumps
Its called « bi focale » in french, it’s an effect of double focus that is clearly impossible to make with one single camera.
I suddenly understand everything. They were born different because they were the only tethered that actually worked as intended (to some degree). Red’s tethered guided her to the entrance to the underground, not the other way around.
All I thought about watching all the tethered basically suffer is how scary it would feel to be on a roller coaster without actually being on one.
Like you just standing there and it feels like your falling, you have all that adrenaline for nothing
just like drugs
You have essentially described a panic attack :)
no matter how many plot holes this scene implicates, i still love it so much. it makes no sense but at the same time it makes so much sense😭
It's like a cool idea that when you think about for 10 seconds you realize it's actually really stupid but still fun :)
@@Space_Ghost_HunterI think I judged this movie too harshly because I have a bad habit of making sure absolutely everything in a movie is justified. Like the premise is kinda dumb if you think about it’s specifics, but the metaphor it’s representing is a really impressive one. Kinda like Tenet, the plot makes quite literally zero sense but the execution is beyond incredible.
@@willjackson6522 Yeah the metaphor is awesome, and I would love to see the idea of an abandoned underground facility that spans the nation filled with insane clones with no oversight. But it just isn't fully fleshed out in the movie.
What are the plot holes?
@@RonPaul42069 A few I was wondering about after giving this a rewatch: if the real Adelaide was handcuffed to the bed, who set her free? And if she's the "original" from the surface, then why was she forced to mirror her tethered? How did she adapt to eating raw rabbit? If the tethered could execute their plan and appoint Red as a leader, then do they have free will? What force drives them to mirror those above? If the tethered Adelaide found the entrance to the tunnels so easily, why didn't any others do the same? Why didn't they escape years ago? Someone did suggest here that the tethered version of Adelaide is the only "successful" version of the experiment in that she is a clone that can control her surface version. Which explains why the real Adelaide had to mirror her tether, despite originally being from the surface. But I am not sure about the other questions. Of course, none of that is actually important, since the movie is clearly metaphorical.
“You could have taken me with you” really hits different once you’ve seen the twist
I've seen others say this so I must just be dense, but can you plz explain? The real girl is saying the clone could have taken her where? Id get it if it were "you could've come back for me"
@@mazurbeemshe's saying the clone could've left the fun house with her instead of strangling her and taking her place, leaving her to suffer in her place. She's saying, that the real Red could've gone above with the real Adelaide
I feel bad for the real Adelaide, I know the clone was down there, but still she did something unforgivable, now I understand, red was trying to take back her life.
Res is the actual character the clone is the other one idk if I'm saying it right
1:57 wow...they even got the amusement park ride reenacted....O.O
That’s because when the counter parts experience on the surface the clones experience too. They share a soul, what the counterpart see and do, the clones see and do it too thinking it’s real which is why they mimic.
Why you're on every comment section I go? Lol I seen you on 90 day fiance comment section too.
"For years we dwelled down here, inches from a staircase to the surface. Hundreds of millions of us, living in a big corridor."
That’s why I cannot take this movie seriously.
No honestly though... like when you think about it for 5 seconds it makes no sense. Like why are they in a giant hallway?
If you've never been inside of a tenament housing projects in Brooklyn, Queens, Yonkers or The BRONX you'd never understand. The Hood is Diabolical. And yes for some it is as simple as "taking an elevator" or being born with a silver spoon but something so simple can be the hardest concepts to grasp. Like Global Crisis just stop doing what's hurting the planet "simple but so hard for the powers that be to grasp.
I feel like Adelaide is the real villain. She took the real Adelaide and took her place and left her with the tethered instead of just taking her with her to the surface. Plus the fact she just smiled after finally killing her makes it more evident.
OA why did she do that instead of taking her with to the surface????? 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨
No wonder she’s so angry
Jeremiah 11:11 - Therefore this is what the LORD says: 'I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them.‘
It essentially means that those who worship false gods or don't worship the one true God are doomed and will not receive compassion?
I love reading comments
You guys know everything and explain it perfect
Why didn't Red just walk back up the escalator after when she miraculously got out of the handcuffs?
She didn't know about it, after when she got knocked out..
@@Joseph_eterr then how'd she get out?
Because once one up there and one below that where they copy each other. There times they have freedon but Red said she wanted to make a statement and get revenge which took years to plan because she has to learn how speak like tether and live with them. She even explains it in the video.
@@Joseph_eterr wrong, how do you think she ended up getting up in the movie? Plot hole
@@dontreadmychanneldescripti7104 Well when she was first down there she didn't know about it at the time and when she got older she eventually did know, but she wanted to get revenge and make a statement that took many years to plan.
She just had to pick the right time
How did people claim this movie was poorly written and confusing? This made perfect sense.
An underground city that housed clones of everyone on Earth and said clones somehow survived without any resources for generations after they were abandoned by humans who apparently didn’t see a problem with leaving these things unattended for decades makes sense?
@@SonicStantz not even a city lmao, an underground HALLWAY with CLASSROOMS. I'll admit the idea itself is interesting but no way does it make sense. Well said dude.
There were more holes in this story than swiss cheese, be serious....
@SonicStantz yes it makes sense you dumbass because the government couldn't make 2 souls so they abandoned it. They survived down there eating rabbits and went insane copying their counter parts above. You are just uneducated and ignorant. 😅
The POV camera shot from the chalkboard is terrifyingly brilliant. I had never seen a shot like this before and I was gripped to my seat when I had seen this in the theatre
I know this is an old comment, but I'd like to add that it's called a Split Diopter lens, and it allows both the foreground and background subjects to be in focus while maintaining depth of field. It was used a lot/popularized by Brian De Palma.
#OscarForLupita I hope she wins The Best Actress Oscar for this performance. Best of the year.
She got shafted so the Academy could pat themselves on the back for giving Renée Zellweger relevance again after treating her like less than nothing for a decade.
@@AngelofMusic04 true that! Renee should have won an Oscar a long time ago. This was Lupita's race to win this year and they know it. This woman played 2 totally polar opposite characters within the same film. Shame on the Academy!!!
Academy award for that performance? Don't make me laugh.
@@holden6104 laugh all you like! It doesn't take away from the fact that she gave a Phenomenal performance! She was more than well deserving than any that were nominated. Also, she's won all of the other prestigious awards outside of the academy beating out your precious choices. So again, laugh away!
Lupita deserved best actress, and Jordan should've been nominated for best director, even though I think Bong deserved it.
Trust me i didnt even understand so much of this revealation, watched this scene again over here and i understood.
Red is one of my favourite movie villains, her motivations made sense and that twist reveal at the end was tragic
I like to think that Adelaide (protagonist) forgot that she was a teathered person for a while, but remembered thanks to her reunion with the teathered family.
I'm pretty sure that's what it is tho. Throughout the movie, you can see her like freaking out and scared or nervous whenever she has flashes of the teathered. Like when the family were holding hands outside their house and she immediately goes "No, no, no, no!" and backs up in fear. It's shown other times too.
So she abandoned her past ig, forgot for a while and then yes, remembered with the reunion with teathered family
And she created a fake memory of "how she run away scared after seeing her doppleganger in the hall of mirrors," so real that she believed it in her entire life 'till she started to remember her former life as a tethered.
The actress really showed how talented she is and this is in my mind the best black thriller because of the acting talent she used the evil mother is so dark and evil
This scene would be an excellent choice to use as a case study for English class
Daily reminder: red was raped multiple times by the tethered version of adelaide's man just because they had to mimic everything the humans did down there
Well if u think about it, he was too
thats just 1 part of the movie, there are many other darker sides of everyone.
huh? i’m confused
Why is that a daily reminder?
@@krisjackson6567 because people think that red (the real adelaine) is the villain when in fact it’s her clone who stole her life from her. And to show how hard her life was in there
0:07 I bet they let all the rabbits out to signal the beginning The Untethering.
Yes
Yeah its all symbolic
@@doomsday7308 It’s really annoying how so many people don’t get that this movie is all symbolism. Too many people are whining about “plot holes” and questions that don’t have answers. This film isn’t about logic, but too many people are trying to use that. People are so annoying.
@@BunnyFlowers good point
One of the rabbits seen at the beginning had a human eye, so needless to say, they were also trying to fuse them to humans for some reason.
2:29 To me this is the most scariest scene in the movie!
Fun fact: those rabbit sounds were Made by Jordan peele... Ironic he plays a bunny here and in toy story 4 in 2019.
@@motor4X4kombat 😂😂 that's kinda funny
@Aces it's so disturbing.
I love how this plan needed its own scene for it to be explained. When red talked about the differences between her life and Adelaide's at the beginning of the movie, the plan was already clear enough. She has a seething envy and disgust towards people that live above and wants to replace them. Plain as day. No need for exposition.
Fun fact: At 3:02 is the guy Jason sees standing on the beach like a scarecrow
CyanAries He got a head start of the others
CyanAries yes his name is Alan he’s a peace walker, and Jeremiah is his tethered that was on beach. Jason felt something was coming but he didn’t know the magnitude of it. Jason is symbolic of Autism
Delta SSiPP I misremembered who Jason was but still, it seems weird to say a character is “symbolic” of autism. Also I read somewhere that since he is half-human and half-tethered he probably is just that. But also like... kids are weird lol.
DeathnoteBB man this movie has so much symbolism in it. Yeah his character is interesting you remember when they were at the beach and one of the twins told Zora your brother is so weird and zora responded he just have a hard time focusing something like that. Yeah he is half tethered but he has more tethered in him where as zora is half too but she has more human in her noticed the kids connection to their parents Jason is closer to Adelaide and Zora is closer to Gabe
DeathnoteBB down below when you see Weyland acting like that but many other tethered also that’s symbolic also it’s a reference to 80s crack epidemic
So honestly, red was the real little girl- they switched without knowing who was the real or fake, there was this sign of the tethered being real and the actual family being fake, that’s why the tethered came back, so they could have what they owned.
True but what about the rest of the family with the fake one ?
It was hard for me to choose a side. At first I was on the real addys side but then I felt bad for how depressing the life was for the real clone when she was down there. Unlike the other tethers the clone is more aware. She doesn’t fall over and walk like a drunk. She walks and acts like a human. As it was said she was born special. But the real Adelaide didn’t deserve anything. She had to be alone dancing around aimlessly with a damaged voice. She had no control. And when she tried to start a revolution against the privileged we think she’s the bad guy until we see that she’s the original. Original or not one of them has to be sad and alone below and the other has to be happy and free above. But the original Adelaide brings up the question “ Why can’t we both be happy?”. I don’t know
I’m definitely on the fake addys side as someone else said she has a family who it’s obvious she deeply cares for and they love her, bu yeah it is difficult to choose I agree
That cardboard sign that Ferdie is holding saying, "Jeremiah 11:11" is on 2:59 and on 3:01, his counterpart named Jeremiah, does not hold a cardboard sign. Instead, it says 11:11 scars on his forehead.
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This scene is actually kind of scarier and sadder when you know the ending.
This is how we learn red is the real Adelaide. Red didnt refer to herself as a tethered or call them "us" like she was one of them. She kept calling them the tethered like they were smth else
I know this is serious but the way the teathers moved 😂😂😂
A lot of people don’t like that they made the switch known. That they wanted Jordan to keep it ambiguous. But Mat Pat understood that THEY HAD TO MAKE IT SPECIFICALLY KNOWN that Adelaide and her tether switched. The point of the movie is that a girl was replaced AND NO KNEW THE DIFFERENCE .
Just realize Red was actually the one doing the dancing and Addy was not.
So that’s why Addy stop dancing because Red stopped.
Everything they say feels different in second watch!
THIS MOVIE WAS SO GOOD!!!!!!!! MY FAVOURITE MOVIES ALL TIME ARE:
US
GET OUT
and ARRIVAL
Wow, I loved Get Out too
Lol this was the stupidest movie I have ever seen.
Moltanica Legend Then why are you here? Why waste your pathetic time watching something you don’t like?
@@terrortower666 It's funny as fuck watching idiots like you crave over this shit. LOL
@@moltanicalegend9377 and it's even funnier watching an idiot like you trying to crave attention your parents never gave you. But hey, each to their own
i’m fucking up my mental capacity just tryna understand this
"The soul remains one shared by two...."
U think what Red is saying here is that the tethered aren't souless, they just have to share the soul they do have with the original person on the surface. I think since the tethered have to mimick their doppelgangers' actions however is because they have less soul than the original person
3:40 is interesting, its where the privileged woman says to the escaped thetered that she could have taken her with her and how different things would be...
wait...but if they were preparing to take over down below....then they weren't really tethered with the ones above anymore right? The ones above wouldn't be doing those movements
Tatjana Ivanova it so much symbolism in this movie i really like it. It’s interesting you mentioning that because part of it is 11 22 33 connecting the mind body and soul. Jeremiah 11:11 + the tethered coming up 33 years later.
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Does this mean the real Adelaide was stuck in the underground for 33 + years?
She was 8 during the switch so in the present day part of the movie she is in her 40s?
OMG clone Adelaide stole like half of the real Adelaide's life. No wonder "Red" is so angry...
Daniel Watson Yeap you right, it was her birthday. Yeah Red didn’t come to play
The way she can go from cultural to super hero’s action to horror is jut a amazing
It’s a beautiful sequence, but once you know the plot twist you wonder why she didn’t openly say, “You stole my life.” I suppose Adelaide did say she wanted to draw this out, and make the other suffer. 🤷🏻♀️
marry marry Because that’s not what the writer wanted
Well Red implied that she was the clone hence to why she said you coulda taken me with you. It seems as if she was brainwashed to think that she waa the fake just like Adleaide was brainwashed into the one that was running from the Fun House. She was supressing the memories of her being the fake one.
this movie was one of the most unsettling movies i’ve watched
Red does have a point. She could’ve taken her with her and they could I’ve lived together. She just didn’t want a better life, she wanted hers.
This scene was ridiculous and also terrifying.
The scenes that freaked me out were when the tethered copied their surface doubles there was the roller-coaster scene the eating "carnival food" scene and the ballet scene
2:29 The Master: I am so hungry
I have so many questions but I can’t start where to begin with
Ask i might be able to answer some
I'll be honest. A lot of those questions will go unanswered for now. They will get significant speculation; some of which will be correct. I wouldn't be surprised if even Jordan Peele couldn't answer some of the questions.
@@doomsday7308 how the tethered is created?
@@magnum69420 it was mentioned that it was a scientific project done by the government, that was later determined to be a fail which led to it being shut down aka locking all the tethereds underground.
1:05 I think the Tethered already were mentally questionable. Being stuck underground just made them worse.
Underrated movie‼️🔥
There is a lot of things that doesn’t makes sense, like: where they got their clothes? Or the ✂️
SebasR24G where they got those rabbits from 😳
nambo you ever hear something like: “fucking like rabbits”? Well the bunnies are very... active in “that” that could explain why so many rabbits
@@rsg5314 well, there are certainly enough rabbits to eat over there :" that would be a logical explanation.
the government
One Word: Prequel
I feel so bad for the little girl 😭😢
This is one of the best movies ever
can't wait for the next Jordan Peele movie
Plan was A tethered must and will survive on the surface.
And that's what happen the clone was to survive not the real 1.
2:30 I never noticed before but these are the sound of the rabbits screaming. They were eaten alive down there
US is a great movie but I’d say out of all of Peele’s movies this would probably be the scariest given the wide scale but also the most implausible. There’s the obvious that generations of eating raw meat and no sunlight would lead to so many cases of weaker immune systems, higher risk of heart issues, food poisoning, and a long list of other heath problems that the tethered likely wouldn’t last longer than even two generations. Then you have to consider that even if the tethered experiments were only in California it would still be almost impossible to get a genetic sample of every citizen in the state which means there are some who would never have a tether which means if they have kids they wouldn’t have tethered and so on. You also have to consider specific situations like meeting people in vehicles like planes, needed to be on life support for a while to be kept alive, or even being a premature baby who survived means there would be thousands of cases of people who wouldn’t have tethered counterparts Then the idea of red being the only tether with independence is questionable cause what would happen to a tether who’s surface counterpart died in a way only a surface counterpart could die like a vehicular crash or specific allergic reaction like peanuts or seafood. That tether wouldn’t die cause they aren’t linked by that and therefore would be able to freely choose what to do for themselves. I understand it’s all suspension of disbelief and that none of these things affects the quality of the film but the logistics are even crazier than the Alien with Kirby breath.
Lupita is an amazing actor… this movie doesn’t get enough credit
Well tbf the plot is completely nonsensical, and the voice Lupita does I'd annoying and distracting.
@@Space_Ghost_Hunterno it’s not
If all they had to eat was raw rabbit then combined with the lack of sunlight they’d suffer heart disease, diabetes, overall malnutrition, and die long before the beginning of the movie. They’d die even sooner of the only source of water was from rabbit blood. You could say there was food like wheat to sustain the rabbits but they still would’ve died off ages ago.
The way they movie is incredibly eerie
The story she told at the house, her speech in the classroom, how she knew everything about the surface. . . It’s like putting the pieces of a sad, disturbing puzzle together.
This scene gave me chills
So the people share a soul with the tethered? So whatever is happening above ground the tethered automatically replicate it?
@@therunawaykid6523 yeah but this did not work for red and Adelaide
I still don't understand how Adelaide is talking like she's never spoken before
3:35 When your five year old self finds out your older sibling got ice cream from the Ice cream truck without you.
I really enjoy this film and the central concept is very original and eerie, but the logic does fall apart a bit the more you think about it. Surely the tethered would have died without any medical equipment or hygiene down there and if all their movements were controlled by the ones above? Would the tunnels really be that clean? Where are the toilets? Surely the tunnels would be full of human waste and excrement? Surely the tethered could only eat rabbits if there just happened to be a rabbit near them when their counterpart was eating above? Did they actually have the exact same clothes and if so where did they get them? I suppose you could just assume that the 'government' had put things in place in the tunnels for all this, but it's hard to know since we only see a tiny fraction of them. I still don't quite understand how Red became completely untethered and helped all the others become untethered too so that they could organise and get all the suits and scissors and start the attack. Again, I do really like this film, but I just don't fully understand the logic
Hedgehoginthetardis thats what i thought too
I believe just like our government this movies version also study and experiment on *magic/black arts* in secrecy 🎭
Hopefully more would be explain if there is ever a sequel 🎥
Welp I do believe having an evil clone is the most illogical part of all. It’s a heavily layered movie with more symbolical implications beyond practical matters. Sure it’s unrealistic, but so is any other film in the genre, and the plot holes are not necessarily explained but I personally think it’s more sinister to propose that reality for the tethered in such an ambiguous way. To think that there is something/someone providing for them only to prolong their suffering
Untethered!! Nice, like they both went nuts
If the tethered were constantly having to copy their humans' actions, then how were they able to stop and plan their attack?
When red did the end of her dance their minds were freed
@@winterpython6163 but how did her dance free their minds? And who was forcing them to copy their above ground counterparts, or is that just part of how they were created? This movie was amazing, but there's definitely a lot of plot holes.
I don’t think the tethered HAD to copy the above people’s actions, my take was that they did it so that they could FEEL something. It was a choice, to attempt to share their counterpart’s experiences, however fleeting and subdued theirs would be in comparison. They share a soul but have their own bodies.
@@VideoGuy232 Interesting theory. Thanks!
Better question how did Adelaide know she was a tethered. Like she first saw a girl who was her clone how did she know to switch. Also she wasnt copying red she turned around and choked her. Ig my theory would be red as a girl was going through depression somehow Adelaide got more control over the two as you can switch control. Since red didnt know who she was she was more vulnerable to being taken over.
This movie and this scene espicially was so great at explaining how privelage and favoritism work in our society
It’s really annoying how many people aren’t getting this
After the mother killing the other blonde woman, the boy had second thoughts about his mother, he knew something was wrong..!
Whenever I hear Red’s voice, I’m seriously reminded of Eddie Redmayne in Jupiter Ascending on the Godpigeon from Animaniacs…
The Tethered and their movements remind me of zombies
God showed her the path because she wasn’t actually tethered and the night they came together. I feel like she’s referring to her, taking her with her as in not leaving her and switching places with her! That’s why all the tethered thought she was different is because she was.
This movie is like random objects and ideas thrown together and forced to make a perfect genius plot.
The concept for this movie is cool, but the execution doesnt make any kind of sense when you start to think even a little past what theyre telling you
that's the idea
You’re not supposed to. Way too many people think about this movie logically, but that isn’t the point. This is about metaphors, and symbolism.