Film Theory: What Is Us REALLY About? (Jordan Peele's Us) 

That statement has a double meaning. This could have been the physical person, or the behavior of the same person.

Yeah I was confused on that to I thought that they were having a divorce or something

Obviously the context was figurative, but what makes it great is it was actually literal.

And it explains why it took her so long to speak again. It wasn't trauma, she was literally learning to speak for the first time.

@@nicolelavigne1700 The ironies are so thick and genius. Above I said how *I want my daughter back* was meant to be figurative, but it's actually literal since she didn't have her daughter. In this case, she was mute because she never spoke while the real one could no longer speak after being strangled.

You're pushing it now

In some shots they were silver

@@BeepBeepRayya Gold and silver are worth a fair bit of money

That's deeper than the stab wounds

Stop the presses!!

yes!!

Correct

Tons of actors help the other roles though. John Krasinski started directing and producing his stuff too. You can learn a lot when you work with talented people.

jordan AND peele have been in hollywood (or a reasonable facsimile) their whole lives, well the parts you know about anyways. this is nothing new to either of them

Candymang

Ye foreshadowing

But SHE did have to walk away from HER parents

@@christianmcnally4323right. my brain was hurting for a sec trying to understand but i think this original commenter is confused

maybe she was synced with her tethered counterpart which led her to the funhouse?

OHHHH

I agree with what you said, but I just don’t get what you meant by some actors aren’t even in movies?

C E A S A R theatre actors was mostly what I was referring to, but a lot of actors are strictly tv or commercial actors. Doesn’t mean they’re not actors, just that they’re not in movies.

Absolutley

I agree, but I think a better way of phrasing it would be that... Nobody calls it "movie star" anymore, not unless you're talking about actors who were associated with glamor, wealth, being a household name across America, and being the person everyone either wanted to be or be with. She didn't want to be an actress, she wanted the perks, the glamorous lifestyle, that she along with many Americans, have come to associate with it. Being a "star".

Idk what that mean your being a motor mouth (no afence)

that was the first thing i noticed since all the other shadows were all just making animalistic noises

True true but that’s why her teacher was able to speak the others hadn’t been around real speaking humans

And when her parents were at the doctors for addie, they said something about why won’t she talk to us, that’s because she was never able to talk

Yeah, too bad she has to talk like that since the clone chocked her unconscious.

@@mihailmarin4683 Red’s voice becoming extremely scratchy is actually the psychological result of having her life ripped away and being forced down into the tunnels of the clones where everyone is completely hollow, not from being choked unconscious. I’ve never understood why Adelaide was able to talk to though, since all the female tethered are completely mute and the male tethered can only make animalistic noises.

wait i forgot abt that it definitely means something

By learning this, the terthered are feeling more like victims to me

"It is was really cool..."

That was a big brain move

Where can I find the scene?

Is your profile pic that cat from the 2018 ghost game on Google? If it is I love it

@@stupidloser9282 yep.

Chirstia Love Nice point! Absolutely well spotted.

Yes! Great analysis!

Notice also the game he's playing is whack-a-mole; beating subterranian creatures back into their holes

smartpig555119 that’s also a god point but I don’t think mr Jordan thought that far into it

Wow! I agree with your breakdown, so spot on! Thank you, for your interpretation of the scissor's representation :)

And for her to escape to the "good life", it costed someone else suffering the "bad life".

@@MilesCrispTV sounds to me Peele read a bit on Marxism.

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Don't click or you'll get hacked

you got my mind blown 🤯

@@uhtredofbebbanburg9568 but You put it there

Woahh

Or how wealth can cut you down... gold is usually known as a symbol or wealth and prosperity, which can lead you to a lonely and miserable life.

Also, wealth is a part of the “American Dream” mentioned in the video.

I wonder if there was symbolism behind Jason's "Jaws" shirt. How could that movie play into this entire theme of America having layers of superficiality? Perhaps the fact that Jaws, as good a horror movie as it was, is extreamly innacurate. Many shark experts explained how sharks don't normally attack people like this, and that the movie clearly over-embelished the entire image of sharks. They're certianly dangerous predators, but for them to be bloodthirsty, sadistic and evil? Maybe the symbolism of that shirt is how the Tethers are not the evil they're made out to be, or maybe some more bizarre message about America over-exagurating some danger as an undisputed evil that must be fought or it will destroy you.

scissors are made out of tethered identical but mirrored pieces like the humans and the tethered

I had a stroke reading that

Woahhhhh

ey another Kermit

SipOfMemes Oof kermit-ception

The next movie "BEFORE U DIE"

Tamer Abu Eid bro that’s when you really have to slide out

All I could think is like "do you need a cough drop or something my guy🤣"

@@SkyNinja6 lol yeah

When people do that voice it gives me anxiety I'm like "sToP yOu'Re rUiNiNg yOuR vOiCe"

Lol 😂

When you get a sore throat just for the video

Red was human

-a rich guy who makes his money in the most hypocritical way with that quote

@@marley7868 So the mere fact that he made allot of money off of good comedy makes him a hypocrite... What a brain you have...

noice

@@marley7868 look, I'm all for eating the rich, but at least George Carlin did something to earn it. People like Jeff Bezos did nothing to earn their money, the only thing people like him do is exploit people. Eat the rich, yeah, but we need to know who we're eating before we do it.

@@coal1818 and that makes it hypocritical cause he earned it in the way is insulting so still bullshit

Lol

Same

RamonaRilla So true

I didn’t appreciate the intro at all - but it was effective and that’s the goal so GG

How though?

The dancing is a creative outlet. Right brain controlled & one of it's only ways to express itself (can express through any creative outlet) since right brain has no speaking ability. Corpus Collosum.🧠✂️ Look into it!

Rae true😂 never thought of that

The two had already swapped before she started dance classes. The parents took her to dance because she, the copy, could not speak and they wanted her to use it as a form of expression. The original was in the tunnels dancing and the copy was above on the stage. So the graceful dancer was the ungraceful fighter and the dancer in the tunnel was the one with the fluid movements during the fight. I think you guys have it swapped. Ballet is a choreographed and structured style of dance. Every single sequence or step has a name and because of this you can literally watch a ballet and write down the exact dance on a piece of paper. Having the copy be a ballet dancer and following a structure through steps that were told to her shows her lack of creativity and individualism. The original is doing a beautiful and unique version of the dance in the tunnels that shows the anger and heartbreak of being trapped within those walls. She is doing a contemporary improvised version of the dance above her and the tethered audience sees the emotion and individualism within the dance and knows that she is unique. This is why she is chosen as their leader. That is also why the original in the fight scene can move gracefully within the fight. She can think independently and creatively. The copy stumbles and struggles because she needs to be told what to do and needs a choreographed version to be graceful. The original can improvise the copy can not.

@@abigailchloe828 Yeah this is a much better analysis. I was trying to understand the dancing scene and how it related with the fight

@@abigailchloe828 mmm this is the best yt comment i've seen in my entire life, thank you.

Yeah cause when the man said what are you she says we are Americans

*THIS IS AMERICA...* _don’t catch you slippin’ now_

Think about it... first he makes Get Out, now Us...trippy lol

Anne Bird Get Out of the US 🤯

You goddamn genius

No one has answered you in 4 months. They may never get to know all the dimensions of you, but they can still piece together the bigger piece of the puzzle. You just have to give them enough pieces.

Mum kinda sus ngl

@@dani.alguera 😂

@@dani.alguera im voting mom, she’s SUPER sus 🙄

Why would he be scared though? Since she switched when she was a child, that means that she's his real mom, the only version he ever knew until the events of the movie. To her family, she is the real one.

@@awesomecat42 I mean she kidnapped and dragged a child underground and took her place. Everything about the tethered is unsettling and her sanity and normality seems like an incredibly thin veneer over something dark and unhinged

Like the part where her father does the thing with her hair and she doesn't react.

At the time,all the parents thought was wrong was that something either spooked her or something bad was -nearly- done to her. They never thought that she had been replaced.

Who knew?

Mitch Price They still didn’t know that she wasn’t her.

She seems to have forgotten also.she didn't realize it until she was older

George Carlin

@Derek Ni Tell us how

@Derek Ni I don't think it's a joke

Andre Ingram aka DJ Screw RIP lol “tell me why~~”

Milk Calcium ain’t nothing but a heartache

You my friend, Are a genius

D E E P

The scissors are also a mirror reflection - each side is the reverse of the other; the same but not exactly identical.

Sunita Moses you're pushing it

O k That is deep

Jake Ramsey he could be any teacher he's so smart lmao

He'd be horrible, he's insanely arrogant and short sighted.

@@moohahuh5119 his online persona is, offline he's a sweethearted dork. I met him at a con and we got pizza

why do i feel like feeling like?

@Aquaa that's what I was going to say so I'll just agree xD

They

He actually showed this side of his character in Key and Peele. After watching these movies, watch some of their skits. Some are pretty dark and twisted.

Often times comedians suffer from depression.

@@3amDayDreamer Yeh, they were deep and the best

For me it was the exact opposite...if you watch Key and Peele they touched on race and some social topics with very deep undertones...🤔😊

To Meme or Not To Meme wow! Good catch!

@@MultiFabar Thanks, but it was someone else's comment that sparked the idea in my head.

Which version of MJ was the evil one again?

@@robertjohansson5313 The one at the end, his 'Thriller' version. It shows him with the yellow eyes at the end.

HOLY JEEZ, YOU'RE A GENIUS

Oh, hi neighbor!

How do you live upside down

Me, a french boi: Would you like a croissant?

me from Belgium: wow America sounds like a real shithole

kill me

I'm Asian

Yeah

i'm lesbian

@@pain7434 no it was a reference from a vine lol

@@pain7434 wdym you don't know this one?

Aesthetic.

Rabbits get eaten in ud

Did it look back at you with its sociopathic eyes?

_Minecraft rabbit stew intensifies_

Ah yes, and the creature's entire value to you is that it's adorable. In other words, it's something completely superficial and ultimately pointless, wow, it's like you never even watched the video; after all: "everything will be the same as it was before".

@Harris Syed, Yes, they were. Sadly, they went after people who had no idea they even existed.

You stop being the victim once you friggin murder an entire nation who didn't even know you existed in the first place

@@itsPlasma06 the real villain was united states

@@nanoteal3773 The government, yeah. The civilians didn't deserve to suffer for that

@@itsPlasma06 they share a bit of the blame though by doing it unconciously

yes, but another meaning, "Us" is also plural, implying together and more than one

You both have a point here.

You all are blowing my mind.

legit when i saw the trailer and it showed the title i thought it said U.S

I saw pus at first but then again I'm a very weird 14 year old

I thought I was the only one that got that reference

No

And now I’m going to go move to mars. This theory can be shoved in with anabel and every other horror movie

totally thought of that too when I saw the money

Could also be refering to 'of mice and men'

@@Meta.noia_art mostly what the human experience is in a nutshell. Imagining something is always better than the reality of having it. America Rome Ancient Eygpt Persian empire just about any and every human civilization has one thing in common humans. People who complain about violence in america dont see the rising acid attacks in the uk or the gays being thrown off roofs or stoned in sadi arabia. High suicide rates? Look at asian countries or really anywhere else. There is a reason why humans are considered the most evil creature on earth. We are and always will be the architects of our own destruction.

That must be one long sinking ship

America suffers in union but thrives toward justice and human rights. Our country is a magical place. Our people? Not exactly..

Your teachers probably a Marxist piece of shit, ungrateful asshole who's directly led young impressionable kids to become nihilistic.

Nathan Hatter Not to mention, we have the highest mortality rates.

😱

i would like the comment but its at 69 and i dont want to ruin it

@@digitalb4th435 -_-

Well pretty much cause the symbols are obvious as you see them numerous times in the movie not as a hidden easter egg.

@@actuallyaboutthat...2522 he's young, that's normal for them.

Cause shes a tethered as well

The comment above explained the second question For the first one, you just have to look at his burned face, or think of the fact that Jason is obsessed with the lighter

His name is Pluto, the furthest planet from the sun so it's kinda in darkness, also Pluto is the Greek (I think) god of the underground so away from the sun. So it's obvious that he would he attracted to the sun and light because he's been deprived of it

@@maricopa_today8619 wow that's intresting

@@maricopa_today8619 Pluto is roman but other than that your point makes total sense (not trying to be rude I get them mixed up too)

And my wife pointed out the depth behind that song in the movie: It's a song about two guys splitting the cost of a bag of weed, like the tethered and the originals splitting the cost for something that equates to a negative addiction: The American Dream.

@@mistreviews WOW!!! My mind just exploded! 🤯🤯🤯 Makes sense...I got 5 on it...but the fact that you pointed it out let's me further know the brilliance of Jordan Peele's mind!

They also killed 5 people 10:26 So I got a 5 on it.

The message they sent wasn’t the American dream is fake it was be great full for what you have

@@andylines8040 ...no. Check your privilege.

Lil Loudy, yes indeed

THIS IS AMERICA

He should make a scary movie about pro life and pro choice next

Elaborate on that.

...... Hahaha free will hahahaha freedom hahahaaaa

@Johnny Fry I think they mean the real people and their copies are so similar on the outside they are mirror reflection of each other

@Johnny Fry could symbolise all the doors in that particular room

And tie "Wonderland" to "America"

But I feel like Alice is much more a coming-of-age story than one about being superficial (and all the other themes presented in the video). I don't know how you would tie those two together. But if you can, I'm curious to know how =)

in the final scene right before the battle someone said "we all went mad down here"

Water, lozenges, and hot tea. It made my throat hurt.

yeah youre wondering about rly silly things like whered they get clothing materials. doesnt even seem like youre trying to watch it for entertainment, but to just ask irrelevant questions

If it's too much for suspension of disbelief to ignore, then it is not irrelevant.

And specifically asks him to "tell him about the rabbits"

I wanted to attack his face too. Cringe af.

@@DivineMind222 lol

I mean your cat was trying to probably save you from the scary man talking to you via computer screen. Even cats know about all the shit going on y'know?

Im not gonna ruin that likes

Why does your comment have 666 likes

Wait... UMBREON

Well no, that’d be obumbratio because of grammar and declensions, but it’s still the same idea and concept

YAS I'm so glad someone else picked up on that!

And Pluto is a forgotten planet. Both Umbrae and Pluto have names that mean "shadows" and "forgotten".

@Markdiepie Roman* the Greek version of Pluto was Hades

That is so cool

The red string of fate mythology actually stems from Chinese mythology, not Greek, but that's still a very interesting point!

I knew about the fates but not the red string that cool

Like Hercules?

The Red String part is about Chinese mythology. Specifically, it signifies the bond between two people, primarily the love kind. Deities tie these onto our pinkies, much like cupids (Minus being passive aggressive on shooting us) and they also have scissors to cut them should the bond ends (Unlikely unless divine intervention)

I mean u wouldn’t post the bad stuff

@Bilbo Ballbag simply watch the Thriller Music Video to the end :D

😵Oh Shittt Didnt Even Think Of That, Lol That Music Video was Terrifying When I Was Younger

I think we all should rematch the ending and pay close attention 🤔

Fecap Gaming OH SHIT

It’s probably a sign that Jordan peele making a connection to get out🤔 i mean think about it...I think the girl that’s chained up and wearing the hand across america is the original girl. So maybe there’s three Adelaide??

Flare gun disoriented Sorta like a flash bang /smoke grenade Idk I feel as though it had an effect

Jithin Jacob true

Absolutely dull machete

@ AlfonzoG AUS What would be the golden chainsaw then?

The failed flare gun is another example of the hollow dream metaphor. It looks like a weapon but it fails to work like one. It’s also another “keeping up with the joneses” object discussed at the beach. It fits nicely.

Isn't it about a black swan and a white swan? It's light and dark. Like the movie... 🤔

@@shadowstorm125 that two, I was thinking more about the literal meaning of the name. But when you think about it neither of the are light or good, both characters are dark

I didn't even know that, but I loved that scene! Seeing how one was dancing perfectly in time, and the other was chaotic and unsure of what moves to do, but entirely confident in what she was doing.

In french pas de deux means not the two

And both parts are connected and can’t function without the other. Or it could be said that their major effect happens when both sides meet.

scissors cut just as good when taken apart

bekah saxon wel it’s not like the others in the movie actually stop functioning after the opposite dies. But it could be said that the optimal effect, in this case cutting, happens when the meet each other.

Woah that just blew my mind

Why did they use the song I got 5 on it?

Peeles movies are wayyyyyy to complex for him to be dumbfounded by a RU-vidr like matpat

@@elonnamcpeters674 Lol... sooo because he does YT videos matpat is dumb or something. I'd venture to guess he is much more intelligent then Peele dude.

Lmao Peele definitely thought of all this. MatPat even points out how obvious some of this stuff is. Peele is a master at selling subtext, always has been since the K&P days.

Peele definitely intended for it to be shown like this. His movies in his own words revolve around "social demons" as he puts it. And Us was pretty much the embodiment of that statement.

@@elonnamcpeters674 lmao shut up bitch

random Channel 360 Not without contracting Salmonella.

I believe he was strong enough to circulate his blood past cholesterol blockage...

And avidin

random Channel 360 of course he could. He’s roughly the size of a *BAAAAAAAAAAAARGE*

*Every morning* to help him get *large*

What's with the a

Mikeld that’s how you spell the word doppelgänger lol

@@orionjustmelted lol lmao

​@@MikeldTSP est ist nicht englisch, es ist deutcsh, dummkopf

One could only dream

nice name

@@sydssolanumsamsys aight

*sips tea in British* another man of culture

@*dee god of da feesh* nice to see you,how many sugars?

@*dee god of da feesh* right then , sit back and enjoy the travesty over the Atlantic

Me

Watch Us do what? 🤔

I saw us i have nightmares now YAY!!!!!..yay........................

I am way to 😱 to watch

(Pusheen fan!!!! I’m bad at drawing at least to me) me in like two days

I don't think fluoride will induce mind control, but it will help your teeth stay strong. Fluoride is in the water too, so don't stop drinking water.

MsTuliplady acting was phenomenal

@@gozinta82 Just don't swallow or it'll give you Ostio porosis.

@@gabrieleberle4422 I'm not talking about concentrated amounts, here.

@@gozinta82 Small amounts can have an effect over time.

AXioS TraLLö it isn’t accurate

@@Cj2fresh you aren't accurate

Not enough "guns in my area" in the movie.

@@Cj2fresh its capitalism in nutshell, and stupid people can't survive without material wealth

You’re a fucking dumbass

It's about classism for sure

Third world countries be like xd

@@JorgeRodriguez-pd8my LMAOOOOOOOO *cries in brazillian*

They didn't show too many have nots throughout the film in the main and supporting cast

@Zach T, Jordan Peele said the same thing on the DVD bonus clips…