I really think that her parents discovered the truth at some point and ended their relationship with her. It is very strange that there is no mention or concern of any of the "two Adelaides" with their parents throughout the film, since they were still old enough to be alive!
For the people who think the tethered are inherently evil and violent, you missed the point. The fact that the Adelaide we see through most of the movie has become a successful, loving, caring “normal” person proves the only thing keeping the tethered as they are is the system that makes them into a literal underclass. And when the original “normal” Adelaide is forced into that underclass, she also succumbs to its inhumane forces. But the cherry on top is that you can only keep an underclass down for so long before they rebel against the system that keeps them down.
And I think in Get Out, black people's enemies are some white racist people. In Us, Pelee wants to tell the audience that real enemy is the system which forces black people to fight each others.
@@liljons6753 is it fun to just take everything at face value? Were you never taught to recognize symbolism in art or were you just too dense to get it? Also its literally stated in the movie that the tethered were a result of a experiment done by the us government so i really have no idea what you're on about.
You can tell on her face, she’s finally remembering exactly what happened that night. You can tell she’s recalling and going back to her roots throughout the movie; she relishes in the violence and makes guttural sounds like the tethered. The writing and Lupita Nyong’o’s acting is soooo good.
Christopher Nhan Le, Well the tethered were abandoned. I’m guessing Adelaide wanted to join humanity. I don’t think she hated her own kind at the time when she was young.
I love this ending as it really gets you thinking, who’s the villain, I guess it’s Red, but she was just seeking revenge for what was rightfully hers. Maybe it’s Adelaide, but she wanted more for herself than a life of suffering, being forgotten. I like movies that get you thinking, when it’s not clearly black or white.
It's more clearly cut to me who the true evil is and its Adelaide. Remember when Red said she never forgot her and said she could've went about it differently as in they could've started their revolution together and both have good lives but clone Adelaide just had her own selfish interests in mind, stealing her double's life. Where my feelings are mixed is that they have family who are the same but very different at the same time and Red no longer has the sanity she did before.
I had the same thought at first, but if you consider how Red and Adelaide’s actions mirror each other, and Red ended up being controlled by Adelaide’s actions when they switched, which is demonstrated in the dancing scene, Adelaide really had no choice if she wanted to save herself. One of the two had to be stuck with the rest of the tethers in the tunnels and I guess although it was selfish of Adelaide to never go back and try to help Red, her actions were justifiable considering most people would do the same to get out of that Hellhole, and because she had to do what she did to Red to be able to escape. So I guess there really is no clear cut villain in this movie as they both were victims of unfortunate circumstance.
@@SixPathsOfEntanglement Adelaide was a kid who was raised as an animal. You really expected her to somehow be a nice thoughtful human being when she was raised like that? That's why she did that to Red, not because she's inherently evil. You did not get the point of the movie - nobody here is evil, the system is the true villain in this movie. The system that made Adelaide prone to violence and that turned Red into a monster. Both of them are nothing but products of said system. They are literally exact copies of the original, just raised differently under different environment.
@@brucesnow7125 I get what you’re saying and it wasn’t fair on both Adelaide or Red but Adelaide didn’t even feel bad about what she did. Girl be smiling like the devil-
@@0rangeeige199 Should she though? The more I think through the meaning of the reveal, the more I'm inclined to think the point is that it's meaningless. It just doesn't change that much about what came before. As a child she did whatever she could to beat her way out of hell, and as an adult she did whatever she could to preserve the life she'd built. And, I dunno, maybe one could read the smile as sinister, but it could also just be that she succeeded. Escaped. Without the twist, would we judge the smile? See it as anything but one of victory? I'd say no, even though all her actions were to beat these people back, apathetic to their conditions prior. In either state we'd have no expectation that she would pursue tethered liberation. I think the film invites us to understand her as villainous in some regard, and then perhaps to discard that reading, recognizing the inhumanity you're brought to when the world treats you as inhuman.
Bruh I remember I was in the movie theater and this scene came on, this guy a couple rows in front of me just goes “So they killed everyone just to stand there!???” 🤣🤣
Love how this one scene ties EVERYTHING about her together. Her being a vegan, being a dancer, her favorite memory was of being given a solo number for a dance that was supposed to be performed by two people, her going to therapy and playing with a bunny toy, being mute all of a sudden as a child. All her later years, she was suppressing her time as a tethered.
I loved all the hints that they dropped about the mom being a tethered. (Spoilers!) 1. Her fear of the family, before they even do anything. 2. "Red" being able to speak, while the rest only grunted or made noises. 3. Her bizarre mannerisms with the tethered children. 4. How prone she was to using violence. 5. "Red" describing how the tethered can control the above, and the mom's ballet made Red dance underground. Also the mom's son controlling the tethered son. 6. The mom grunting when fighting "Red" and after she killed her. It was all great and did the job it should.
@@GeedUPfromtheFEADup If you mean the mom in red? It's because she was originally from above so she already had a general understanding of English, and since the thethered mom switched places with her, she grew up around people who spoke so she eventually learned to speak instead of grunt.
@@hardcoreking52 That doesnt make sense because none of the other clones could talk or learn even though the real Adel could have taught them? Instead she didnt? So many holes in this movie
@@GeedUPfromtheFEADup The real Adel's voice was very strained, probably from being strangled by the tethered Adel. Maybe because of that the others just mistook her strained speech, I don't know it is odd.
i love that her smile wasn’t overly creepy, it was just acknowledgement enough that she knew what she was and now she was back to that, the subtlety of it was more terrifying than any overly creepy smile she could have done
2:01 this final smile hits different after you realize adelaide’s plan to swap places with red succeeded after all those years, from the beginning as a child to the end of the movie, since she successfully killed her real self
I don't think that's what the smile meant. The son looked at the mom like he knew something. She looked back at him with concern then smiled after she processed it all. Maybe she knew that the son knew but smiled because it was all too late. She won.
@Dylan Vuorinen I think you are just adding a storyline to a movie that the director and creator has already explained in extent and never mentioned that.
And also how tf is this gonna be the end of the world? They are armed with scissors. Fucking scissors. Don't you think the us military is gonna come down there and gun everyone down
@A.Username It's in relation to the context of the film and its relevance to the film's plot and message. Considering these things, the ending is incredibly disturbing. Minnie Riperton's angelic voice makes it a million times worse. lol
A.Username the last scene is a little eerie but is not disturbing lol but then again everyone is different w different opinions & that’s okay, to each their own :)
3:10 “Red” may have failed to reclaim her life back on the surface, but she caused something that will change the country forever. Rejoice everyone, a new time has indeed come.
I remember watching Us on opening night, and when the shot of the tethered holding hands at the end showed up with the music, I was lowkey disturbed, sitting in my seat just staring at the screen. That was a time when I was truly terrified. Jordan did a great job at terrifying his audience, tho.
Jarred Harper your in ever comment hating on this movie it’s hilarious. if you didn’t like it, why be in the comments on youtube? just scroll past bub.
I was more mind blown than scared. Jordan did do a great job at this movie. I remembered when the trailer first came out, I was so uncomfortable that i did not feel good inside. It literally scared me haha.
It’s crazy how the ending song and all the tethered standing in the line feels like it’s an ending where the good guys win. It’s almost like the ending of hereditary where the characters believe this was the best outcome but the movie shows us it was the worst. This time, the characters know this is the worst possible outcome, but the movie is like “Nah.”
Well the tethered were made by the government to kill their counterpart and once they do that they form a line to be killed by the choppers with guns for population control
A swarm of people, wearing red, holding hands across the US is one of the most unsettling things I’ve ever seen, especially when you try put it into context.
Y’all I watched this for the first time on a plane and when I looked out my window, I thought I saw a red line going across the ground and I almost lost my mind
Yo i came back from this movie and my family was sleep and as i pass my mothers room, she started grunting and i was like 😱😱😱😱😱😱 but turns out she had sleep paralysis and was trying to talk/scream so someone would wake her up
Yeah i dont understand tho what tf is oscar problem with horror film? Like wtf? Lupita acting here is superb omg lupita deserved the second oscar. *period*
I love that the main character has always been the "villain" of the story: she wanted so much to be among the humans that she abandoned the tethered and was even ready to kill them, while the real Adelaide made her life mission in helping the tethered getting out.
What if, this was all apart of the real Red’s plan? To control the real Adelaide into freeing the tethered. Which is why she didnt actually want to kill the tethered version of her family nor did she want them to die. I think her true desire was for the tethered to kill her family and then she kill the true Adelaide so in the end, the tethereds win, hence the smile in the end. If The true red had not manipulated the true Adelaide into going down there and switching places, the revolution could have never happened.
No she looked it up sometimes people with extreme ptsd of trauma develop that voice lupita did research on it and worked with her volcano coach to make sure it would not damage her voice she actually studied a real life issue that happens to a few people who go though extreme trauma or ptsd and development different voices some stop talking completely some get a studded and some talk like she did . It has a name she said it in an interview when asked about the voice for red I’ll try and link it
@@bonsaio815 The commenter clearly meant the actual Red, not the person in the scene. Our protagonist wronged Red by basically stealing her life. It’s kinda fucked up when you think about it.
I can’t figure out how I feel about this. On the one hand, yeah, Adelaide did something terrible, awful to Red and frankly deserves something coming to her. But on the other hand that is HER family. I kept thinking she stole Red’s family from her but, no! Adelaide fell in love with Gabe and had two kids! But then Red of course was a little girl who got kidnapped and was forced to live her life underground with some weird creatures that look exactly like people you know and do similar things but are extremely creepy about it all. Not to mention eating raw rabbit. Hell yeah she’d want revenge on Adelaide... But she also lead a mass murder spree against a people who previously had absolutely no idea they existed. The only one who deserved anything in the movie was Adelaide. I guess in end neither of them are in the right.
If u think of it, Adelaide just wanted a normal life, I think if we had a chance to replace the life she had with our double gangers life, most of us wouldn't pass on it. On the other hand, if u was red, ANYBODY would also want revenge on what's rightfully there's. Its so creepy and if u put urself in both their perspective who can we rly blame....
@@ecthox-1mork909 And that's the point the doppelgangers aren't inherently evil, the doppelgangers are just as human as their real counterparts. Their environment made them the way they are.
I love how this ending isn’t exactly a happy ending, but at the same time it isn’t really a downer ending. The Wilson’s do make it out alive and they all survive, but Jason now knows the truth of the “Adelaide” he was with. And at the same time, America seems to be in shambles with the Tethered. I love it when movies end with these more ambiguous notes
@@rae2443 I don't really agree. That last shot, the tethered doing Hands Across America to replicate one of Red's last experience before being stolen, capturing a revolutionary impulse that the original never truly could, that's her justice.
I was waiting for someone to mention the son!!! Thank you!!! Lol can we take a moment and discuss what the hell was going on at the end, before the sun placed the mask on?
@@blackberry8615 STRONG POINT!! Wow, i never thought of that, that would make so much sense. Absolutely Love this film, its so deep! That last scene however always gets to me, just the way he stares at her and turns away placing his mask back on. It amazes me that secretly the mother was honestly the "true" villiain who in the end: choked red, replaced her, lived her life, had her children, ran back into her, killed her, continued to live on. You're right, red did tell her son the real truth.I just question how come he didn't say or ask anything?
This is hauntingly terrifying once you realize that if she never swapped at all she never would’ve gotten the inspiration to do Hands Across America. That smile tells us she knows she’s the reason for this nationwide issue
It's not that she's proud. Stop trying to make her evil, she isn't. Her only crime was wanting a better life for herself. She smiled because she realized it doesn't matter what she is. It was a smile of acceptance. She isn't afraid of who she is anymore. The son knowing she's a tethered doesn't change anything. She will always be his mother. This will always be her family.
@@HarshDude126 I think one of her notable crimes is letting her other self stay underground instead of trying to live out her own life. She had decades of sound mind and body to figure out a way to expose the clone facility and save all the people down there. She didn't really have to swap to be free.
@@HarshDude126First of all Biiitch you think stealing somebody's life is ok Second Of All Biiitch you think strangling and injuring somebody's vocal chords are ok and Third of all Biiitch You think locking them like in a bed is ok? What's wrong with you
The son knew. But he just said to himself “I’m gonna just mind my business” and why wouldn’t he? She was a good mother to him. She provided a good life.
@@cuber3603 right? Even in movie "Pitch Perfect" anna kendrick character said vader mean "Father" in german (correct me if im wrong) so its not that hard to understand or "mindblowing" its good twist but yeah... its kinda obvious lol
This is perhaps my favourite closing scene of any horror film since at least the 1980s. Without a single gut being crunched, that overwhelming extended final shot is disturbing in the best way. And the music from Hair has never been used better...
The scary thing is though How many of the surface dwellers are left?... Cause if the tethered join the line after killing their counter part Then wouldn’t that mean like at least 85% of America is dead...
It’s been calculated that you only need ~2,000,000 people to form that line which would be less than 1% of Americans, but I guess there could be multiple lines.
I doubt it ever getting done. Not even 3% of it. Just because an unarmed family of dumb blondes got slaughtered doesn't mean the whole U.S. would suffer the same fate. They're literally dim-witted killers barely able to speak, all dressed the same with red jumpsuits. It was even broadcasted on TV. Spot one and shoot it in the head. Easy as that.
@@Y0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0ow I was thinking the same thing when watching the movie, but the fact that you don't see any other survivors after the invasion properly begins made me think otherwise.
The fact that the one in the orange jumpsuit was the REAL girl.. the tethered girl had to learn to talk, cause as you notice they make those weird sounds, and the whole point of the movie was that the real one had gone after her for her revenge of taking over her life.
There is another reference to Michale Jackson and Thriller here. The way Adelaide looks into the camera and has a creepy smile is a nod to how Michael looks at the camera with an eerie smile and glowing eyes at the end of the Thriller music video.
@England’s Guard by who the government because the other countries aren’t traveling all the way over to bomb some people lmao so obviously our government bombed them then
Peele movies are always very clearly portraying some sort of metaphor. I believe my takeaway from Us is that neither side of this oppressive system is evil despite the system itself being evil. The clones underground are not evil for desiring to be free and to live their own lives, and their anger for those on the surface makes sense when considering the endless distress they had to endure underground which undoubtedly broke their sanity. The privileged people on the surface are not evil either as they are just living their lives. Specifically, they had no hand in creating the system which oppressed those underground. This last part I believe to be the primary metaphor for Us. The system in the movie is a metaphor for that of the real world, where there is significant class disparities, with those in the lower class often fruitlessly trying to copy the actions of the more privileged because that’s all they have the power to do. Alongside this, many of the privileged can’t be blamed for the system, despite benefitting massively from it at the expense of the lower class, as they did not create it. The moral that can be derived from this is that a system can be evil without either side, the oppressed or the oppressors, being evil themselves. It’s the system that must be dismantled, not the people in either group.
Incredible now how obvious it is that she was the doppelganger all along. Not being able to speak to begin with, Red initially being the only doppelganger who was able to speak and more. That's what I love about Jordan Peele - you notice more hints and clues the more times you watch it. We had that in GET OUT and likely will with NOPE as well.
What amazes me about this twist is how obvious it was after watching the second time around. It’s like all the hints were there. And when you think about it, this is such a typical trope with a lot of movies; the main character not turning out to be who we initially thought they were, especially after rooting for them the whole movie. But as obvious as this was, for some reason that thought that Adelaide was really the tethered , did not cross my mind at all when I saw this for the first time. I was too busy trying to put together every small detail that I completely missed this twist. It’s brilliant.
The greatest detail was during the final fight scene when "Red" was gracefully dodging Addy's moves and Addy just kept stumblingbupon herself trying to violently end "Red".
I just love the concept of the villain still winning at the end of the movie. The Tethered Adelaide took away the real Adelaides life, she was just getting revenge and the Tethered still won which you don't realise until the end
Oh man, when Minnie Riperton kicked-in with 'Les Fleurs' (I frickin’ *_LOVE_* that song!), & the camera pulls back/up to reveal all of the [un-!]tethered "hands-across-America", I had the *biggest,* most _ridiculous_ smile on my face, just brilliant! I know some people - including the majority of reviewers - felt it was not as good as the phenomenal 'Get Out', but for me, 'Us' was a different kind of film, & I thought it was brilliant, in a slightly _different_ way! Kudos, Jordan Peele, the exceptional Lupita Nyong'o, & not forgetting Winston Duke too!
I had a dream about tethered people and the place in the movie where the feathered stay looked like the place in my dream. And granted till this day, I’ve never seen this movie. Very creepy
@@bonsaio815 correct me if wrong but for me it‘s more like a parallel to his tether who was almost dog like and always put his mask over his face. in this scene he‘s like the loyal "dog" that stays with its owner
@veijo7966 He knew, but the look on his face said “okay, my mom is a clone, and may have done some morally questionable things in her past but she’s still my mother.” Him masking is like saying “let’s just pretend that I never learned the truth, and this never happened.” In my opinion, it’s a metaphor for learning that your parent had once turned to drug dealing or prostitution to try to give you a better life.
When I saw this movie the scene where tethered Addy chokes real Addy gave me literal chills down my spine. What an amazing twist ending to a horror film.
Gotta love that the signature end this channel has for the clips reflects what logically follows next : Military helicopters just no scoping the tethered.
This movie is so dark specially when you don’t fear demon specters ghost legends clown but you do fear religion politics and humans well welcome to my fears
I’m convinced that Get Out and Us take place in the same universe. The thing is, I hope Chris and Rod are ok, hopefully their tethered didn’t get them.
I already saw the this plot twist coming just how the tiny details were insinuated in the earlier parts of the movie but what I like about it is how it was revealed. Like, Jordan Peele is really a genius in filmmaking. He knows how to tell a story beautifully :)
Context: So as you can see, Jason stares looking at she's mom with his eyes stick to her face, her mom also looked him, and then the mom discovered that Jason discovered the true, and that true am gonna tell you now. So we can see Addy on the fair going into the mirror place or whatever its called, and founds she's doppelganger which did something in which Addy fainted, so we can see how the doppelganger puts her on the bed, and wear she's clothes so that she can go outside and take Addy's place. After seeing all this, we can discover that this Addy is the real doppelganger, and Red (the other "doppelganger") was the real Addy. Jason discovered that fact but not because of how they were looking at theirselves right now, it was because Jason and all of they knew and know that doppelgangers can't talk, and Red was the only one that was talking, and also, when the little "Addy" arrived from the fair, as you can see, she wasnt talking and anything like that, because she was the doppelganger, i hope you can help me giving like!! God bless you all!! ❤
They were a special case, adelaide the original tethered could control the real one, she was always aware of the surroundings even tho she did copy what's happening in the surface. But when they were in the same place, she lured her into the mirror place, you could see her looking around to other tethers she was actually controlling the real adelaide. Just my theory.
I think the director is trying to say a few things with this ending: 1. people, whether tethered or not, black or white, aren't inherently good or evil. It's the environment you put them in that shape them. 2. Even if you were put in that environment where all the cards are stacked against you, you can still claw your way out with enough determination. 3. let's not forget about those who are forgotten and/or repressed.
I wish they kept in the little extra part of this reveal that wasn't in the final film, where Weyland and Eartha (The Tethered versions of Adelaide's parents; Russel and Rayne) find Adelaide chained to the bed, mistaking her for Red, hey that rhymes. Because it was so fucking creepy, but it also told us a lot about the tethered, it knd of showed us that even when they attempt to care for someone; they do it in a very negative and disturbing way, I mean instead of being loving, they both come off as obsessive and possessive. It made Adelaide's despair even sadder and more terrifying too because for a brief moment she thought that her parents had found her, only for them to start acting all weird and creepy, between Rayne's demented staring, the way she swings her head around and Weyland's mood swings, their attempts to nonverbally communicate with her, it just seemed like such a bad birthday for her. In addition; that scene also showed Adelaide's laryngeal spasmodic dysphonia (her slow breathy speech impediment) in it's developmental stages, how it was impacting her ability to vocalize, seemingly brought on by Red's strangulation of her. Anyway, glad they kept it as a deleted scene. It would've fit in with this reveal scene so nicely though.
What I truly love, and what is so unsettling in this film is, I think the boy knows exactly who she is now. And this leads to a bit of a problem. Will Adelaide kill him to keep him quiet...? Is that what she's thinking as they drive off? What did the "tethered" Adelaide tell the boy as she took him? Was she kind to him? You wonder why she had him in a locker all that time. Trying to protect him...? Like a true mother would? "Us" is insanely addicting, and the ending scene with the "Hands Across America" and Minnie Repperton's "Les Fleurs" carrying us out - it's all just damned brilliant.
The movie's ending shows US how successful the Tethered had become, even though their leader (Red) has been killed. She wanted her Hands Across America operation to be heard, even though it (probably) led to a country-wide massacre.
No. They stand there for approximately 15 minutes. In the real event, the people held hands for 15 minutes. But I dunno, they might've. I mean they're celebrating escaping the underground.
No that wasn't the point at all. It was meant to show that the lower class should never be forgotten and they are humans too. If they was given the same opportunity as people from above they would of been more human. Which showed to be true with the fake Adelaide.
Mr NOTME The tethered, representing the lower class in your words, were more capable of achieving hands across America than the fortunate people above (upper class). Which is still my point. The tethered have the stronger will. Adelaide was a tethered and that’s why she was able to survive with her family. She was the first to claim her freedom which sparked the tethered to rise (the illusion was that Red was leading the way). Really the “clone-Adelaide” sparked the revolution when she choked that bitch out
And then they proceeded to get carpet bombed into oblivion by the military seriously the military is still active they definitly could not have been killed since they are always alert
When my family had seem this scene, (I already knew what happened) they were so confused and some understood but they looked at me for answers. So I had to carefully explain and when I did they were so shocked.
I havent seen this but jus parts, it lookx really good I'm kinda confused of course lol but I'm assuming the evil is still there at the end like on The new Pet Cemetary I've actually watched.
I don't know if Jordan Peele have ever read Paulo Freire, but there it is: "when education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor"
0:55 bro this part right here is just mad creepy and it scares that this was a whole plot twist between red and Adelaide so you can basically said the fake Adelaide was suppose to be named red not the real Adelaide. And basically the fake Adelaide did this so she can have an normal life like red. Cause remember they was born special.
This ending blew my mind. I _knew_ there had to be more to what happened than Adelaide just seeing her doppelgänger; I _knew_ something more had to have happened. But I didn't guess they had switched places. Personally, I think "Adelaide" is okay. What she did was wrong, but she was a child when she did it, and clearly she forgot about it eventually (thus can't really be held responsible for not fixing it later), and in the present day she's become a functional adult who genuinely loves her family, and even showed sympathy towards Umbrae and Pluto despite them not being her children and trying to murder her real children. And I don't think all that's going to change just because she remembered who she really is. I don't think the smile at the end is supposed to be ominous for anyone but the audience. I think it's a genuine smile on her part. It's a smile of acceptance. "I remembered what really happened and where I really came from, and it turns out I did something really bad… But that doesn't have to change anything. The rest of my life is still just as real. I'm still Gabe's wife, I'm still Zora and Jason's mom, and I still love them, and nothing is going to change that." I do feel bad for "Red", but the fact that this life was originally hers doesn't justify the attempted murder. I see this as… not exactly a happy ending (because what happened to "Red" was so tragic), but the proper ending. "Red" was clearly beyond reason, she wasn't going to stop until "Adelaide" was dead, and that isn't right either. Besides, the life she was trying to take back wasn't really hers anymore, by this point it belonged to "Adelaide". Regardless of where "Adelaide" came from and what she took from "Red", she's still Gabe's real wife, and Zora and Jason's real mom. "Red" isn't. It wouldn't be a happy ending if "Red" won and replaced her.
You missed the point completely. All of these clones share a soul with their real human counterparts; they were "failed" experiments left to rot underground--all they wanted to was to have the same opportunities as the people above ground. Sound familiar to anything in our society? "Bad" people don't just show up out of nowhere. We create them through poverty, gatekeeping, lack of education and other opportunities. Adeleine being raised in the normal world with all the right opportunities proves that any Thethered can be "normal" if they just have the same options as anyone else above ground. And Red became "evil" because she spent her life underground merely surviving on scraps even though she was originally part of society above ground.
I didn't get a chance to see this movie when it was in theaters. For months, I had been avoiding spoilers. I did hear there was a twist in the ending, but I didn't know what it was since I was trying my best to avoid it. And when I was in college, they were going to showing the movie outside on a big screen on campus. I was really excited. This twist blew my mind. The last time before this I saw a good twist was when I watched The Sixth Sense for the first time a year prior. It was so worth the wait with avoiding the spoilers. And seeing all the other Tethereds holding hands across America makes me want a sequel.