Us (2019) Explained: a COMPLETE Breakdown and Analysis 

What did you think about "Us"? Did this video bring any new insight into the film? What other things from Us did you find really interesting? If you think this video will be helpful for someone else, I'd certainly appreciate you sharing it.

I think the fact that Red was the only one who could speak (albeit hoarsely), while the other Tethered screamed or moaned, showed she was actually from the real world.

No wonder Red wanted Adi to be handcuffed to the coffee table, the same way she was handcuffed by Adi in the tunnels

My theory is that the boy puts his mask back on in the last scene because he knows what his mother really did. The original Addie told him the story when she kidnapped him and now he will never look at his mother the same way.

While Jason tried and failed to light the trick, Poor Pluto, tethered to Jason, tried and succeeded at lighting his trick (matches) burning his face every time.

Jason was the smartest and most insightful member of the family, which made him an "other" within the group. He recognized who the "tether family" was and how to control his doppelganger, not to mention his mother's true identity.

She's not off beat, she on the off beat. She is still in time and has rhythm but it's the reverse of the norm. It's the equivalent of her whistling the itsy bitsy spider backwards

The actress that played Umbra is so underrated. She was so fast and so damn creepy! Her evil glare haunted me in my dreams for weeks!

My theory about the rabbits was that not only were they the original test subjects, but there was always 1 black rabbit on screen. I think that was a hint from the very beginning that one of these things is not like the others.

I like how u said “It’s almost like if the government left their people with no clean water or something “.....🙄that sarcasm hit different when it’s true

Jordan Peele got us back in school 🤣 We watching his movies and taking notes. Having debates about the meaning of his movies. 🤣

Red actually being Addy explained a lot of things. Why Addy showed empathy towards the two tethered clones of her children. Had she never switched they would have been her children. She probably feels a connection to them as well, she also being a tethered. She also seems to feel a closer connection to Pluto than Umbrae, seeing as how she is much more affected when he dies than Umbrae. It also gives a whole different perspective as to why she was so scared all these years after the initial incident where she switched. Her words made a lot more sense. Of course Red would come after her, she stole her life. It also explains how she knew exactly what was going on. She knew to call the police immediately (even though they never even showed up after those 14 minutes passed), warned Gabe not to engage with them, kept her children close etc. Something to notice also is the close relationship that Red has with Pluto. In the scene of the living room where Red tells them their story Pluto is almost leaning on Red with her stroking his head. I believe that's why she took Jason when she had the chance. Like the tethered Addy, she felt a closer connection to Jason. Jason doesn't even seem to be struggling when he's being taken by Red. The twist also explains why Red is different than the other tethered. Why she can talk and think. Why her voice sounds the way it does, because of her crushed throat. Why she's so hell bent on killing Addy. It's not a simple, "You had a better life than I did, I'm jealous so I'll kill you". It was actually a legitimate, twisted reason "You literally stole my life, I want it back". Insane!!! After seeing the plot twist in the end, I felt so sad for Red. She literally got her life stolen from her, was forced to eat raw, bloody meat, she got scissors as christmas presents, she couldn't choose who she married, she gave birth by herself twice - the second time actually having to cut herself open to deliver her child- both children being disasters just like her husband (one's a psychopath and the other thinks he is a dog), manages to go up into the real world to try and make things right, only to get killed hours later by the same person who started this whole sequence of events.

Jason always put on his mask when he was in the presence of evil or adversity. It was him masking his fear, so the evil couldn’t see that he was afraid. He was shown to be the smartest and most adaptive in the situation, something Red recognized. She could have chosen to kidnap and reveal the truth to Addy’s husband or daughter - but she choose him. Red knew that he would be able to process what Addy had done. The tethered are clones of the original, sharing one soul, so it can be argued they are the same person. So by the time Addy saved Jason, she had killed his mother, after crushing her throat and forcing her way into her life. That’s why when Addy said they were all gone, he shook his head no. It was the reveal before the reveal. And when he pulled down his mask after the revelation, it was him not showing fear in the face of evil.

Can we take a minute to give it up to Lupita? She’s so beautiful and did such an amazing job at portraying both roles in this movie. Ps. I also dig the “I got 5 on it” version in this movie.

I think the cops would have been busy with their doubles.

Red never says "we" when talking about the tethered and their story, she always says "they" even though before we find out she's supposedly part of the tethered

Before red was killed she was whistling, which is another thing that lets u know she was the real one

A young boy named Jason, that wears a mask and mother is the "villian". Friday the 13th much?

Its beautiful the amount of tiny details that this movie had. Her friend was talking about some face procedure that went perfectly and couldn't even be noticed, while her double had real bad scars on her cheeks, cause the doctor's crazy double probably "performed" it on her

I just feel so bad for red. Her entire life was stolen by a tethered, and then she was killed by the very same thing that stole her life. She didn’t deserve to go through the pain she did. She didn’t belong with the tethered.

Jordan Peele is this generation's Alfred Hitchcock. He builds these worlds that are just enough like the real world that they get into your head.

I think the reason Adelaide seems upset and sympathetic when Umbrae and Pluto die is because she has that distant memory of her life underground and knows that it's not the childrens fault they were monsters. It was their upbringing and environment. Nurture over nature. She is proof that with the chance and privilege things can be very different and perhaps feels sorry for those children that may have had a different life themselves given the same opportunity. They just wanted a better life like she did all those years ago when she switched with the real Adelaide/Red.

Isn’t it weird the mom knew exactly how to get to the underground tunnel 🤨( hint that wasn’t the real one)

I never noticed how addy automatically knew where to go in the tunnel

About Jason , the mask that his "twin" is wearing is a therapeutic/medical mask that's used for burn victims. I can't remember if he is shown without it all in the movie, but that gives another layer (no pun intended) to the meaning behind (again, no pun intended lol) the mask. Where Jason would put on the mask to look like a monster, his clone would keep his mask on to avoid looking like one.

Adelaide also suggested going to Mexico. I think Peele might have tried to point to the fact the people trying migrate here are also running from their government and horrible situations. This was very insightful!! I love your commentary

What about the notion that every time Jason put his face close to see why the flame didn’t work in his trick, Pluto was doing the same thing to a real flame. Burning his face every time. Also, he uses a toy ambulance to propel the escape. At the end they escape via ambulance. Interesting that most were white rabbits, with a few minority colors mixed in. Despite the physical differences, they were all there for, and used for, the same thing in the end.

I just noticed that Addi sometimes make grunt noises like other clones made, but I never heard Red make the same noise. That's a give away who the real person is. Watch the scene after she choked Red with her chains.

Adelaide always goes for Red's neck, both as a kid and as an adult.

I took it as we are our own worst enemy

I like how Peele is straying away from the typical “paranormal/demonic” theme that has been going on with scary movies the past 6+ years. It’s all about removing spirits and demons now . I used to love watching scary movies in theatre, now I don’t bother because they all are the same “someone being possessed” 🙄. Peele has intertwined a balance of thriller, horror, and suspense . Wasn’t a fan of the movie when I first seen it , but atleast it’s something different 🤷🏽‍♀️

The fact that we have so many underground tunnels really amazes me but seems scary at the same time.

Nobody: Gabe: I thought I already done told y'all to get off my property!

This movie was NOT for your average person but I loved it

I like how you’re clearly a very intelligent person but you don’t tell the information in a way that seems pretentious. Or like you’re talking down to us. I can’t express how much I appreciate that.

At first, when Elisabeth Moss’s character’s doppelgänger hesitated on killing Adelaide, I thought that only “shadows” could only kill their doppelgänger. After realizing that Adelaide felt this sympathy towards the children’s shadows dying, Kitty’s shadow didn’t kill Adelaide because something set her off that she was actually one of [them]!

I think that Thriller shirt had meaning too because the movie ended the same way thriller did.

Red’s plan is basically 1. Kill your original version 2. Hold hands across America 3. ??? 4. Profit

I saw a yin/yang symbolism in the movie too. The tethers were connected in a way but balanced each other or “completed “ each other bc they shared the same soul. Jason couldn’t do the magic trick but we can assume Pluto did (and burned his face). Abraham can’t talk but Greg is very witty. Zora is sassy and riled with teenaged angst and umbre is always smiling. I think it connects to the idea that we all have a dark or evil side but that completes us and makes our soul one. And we can control it if we don’t let it control us. Like how the tethers were made to control the humans but it ended up being the other way around.

The Fun house with mirrors says "Find Yourself", at the entrance, too.

Bruh this movie was so good but equally confusing... thanks for clearing it up man!

Not just a mask, but a werewolf mask, a creature that is (basically) half monster half human. ;)

Peele is an artistic genius!!!

I think Jason’s doubles face was burned because in the beginning of the film how Jason was trying to show a “magic trick” and flicked the lighter over and over, I believe underground his double was doing the same thing and was actually sparking it, thus over time burning his face, I may have missed key details but a theory for another day.

I think that if Jason wanna put his mask on at the end, it is because he somehow understands that his mother is the bad one (through their look). So he puts the mask on to express the fact that he wanna hide the truth, stay by her side and don't tell the rest of the family.

red knew where the spare key was because she used to live there

Can we talk about how Addie's MJ Thriller shirt predicted a good amount of the movie.

After Adi frees herself from the coffee table at her neighbors house, she is wearing the one handcuff for the for the rest of the movie. Symbolic because the real Adi was handcuffed to a bed as a child by her doppelganger. Tethered?

My grandpa said a long time ago when i was younger and it was n the early 90s...'i aint drinking no bottle water, no tellin what they doing to it, so ill keep boiling mine on the stove'....thats old school!!

I understand why Gabe from US was "weak"!! It's bc hes truly human!!! Addi was really a tethered being. The kids are both half tethered as well. So they're all at least half soulless except for Gabe. He had to be clearly different from the rest of them bc he was entirely human. So to make him as brutal as Addi would be to say that black men are just as soulless and evil as people who actually don't have complete souls of their own.

I thought that them wearing red and recreating HAA was also a metaphor for "red lining" - when the government re-drew city lines with the intention of keeping black people confined to a lesser area.

I have some thoughts on why Jason and Pluto were still connected, but Zora and Umbrae weren't. Long post ahead. TL;DR, we teach kids prejudice. There's a lot of metaphor in this, and I think the half-tethered/half-human doesn't have as much to do with it as we think. I think Jordan's showing how with age and learning, we become disconnected from ourselves and each other. We become the thing we fear. Kids don't have any concept of racism, classism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, etc. Those are all taught by us. But Zora, as a teenager, had already learned many of the ways we're taught to be separated, which then separated her from Umbrae. Jason's too young to understand all that, so he's still in sync with Pluto. Both physically and metaphorically, they're still united, unlike the rest of us. I think it's best shown with how Pluto and Jason just sit together at first, each learning about the other. They're the only two who are curious about each other, which is exactly how kids are. Teenagers and adults? Not so much. And if you step back from Pluto's circumstances, you can see he's still just a kid. He's special, like Jason, yet in a really bad situation. Even with the car on fire, Pluto's just standing there. We _assume_ he set fire to it. We _assume_ he's going to hurt Jason by burning him. But we have to question why we assume all this. Well, he carries a lighter, burned his face and his tethered family is trying to kill Jason's family. Case closed, right? Yet Pluto never hurts anyone. The only reason he has the lighter is because he was replicating Jason's magic trick. He only burned his face because Jason "made" him every time he practiced. So, was Pluto really going to burn Jason? He didn't hurt Jason before, so why would he now? It's not like kids know how to psychologically terrorize people. But Red does. It seems more likely that Red set fire to the car as part of her trap. She knew that would stop them in their tracks, especially if she had Pluto standing there. But, Red was right there and didn't even try to save her own child. She literally sacrificed him to reach her end goal. It shows just how horribly systemic oppression and prejudice will tear families apart. But, by then, Jason learned to be terrified of Pluto, despite Pluto doing nothing to him. It's understandable - the tethered were trying to kill them. But it makes it telling that Jason is the one who violently killed Pluto, based on all these assumptions. Jason finally succumbed to what he'd been taught - fear "them". All the "thems". So I think Jordan's showing that by teaching this kind of fear, we no longer see individuals. Pluto didn't do anything but scare them by looking different. We're the ones that made him seem murderous. It ended up not mattering that he was innocent in all of this. Which parallels a LOT of shit happening in the US right now.

You can tell something is up after Adi is done killing a twin she is grunting the tethered

This movie is a prime example of nature vs nurture.

jason knew his mom was the clone. he heard red say it when they were underground

From the Thriller music video: - Jason's mask represents Michael's werewolf face - (obvious one) Michael's fully dressed in red - "You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it" (the tethered have no voices) - "You feel the cold hand and wonder if you'll ever see the sun" (the tethered are trapped underground)

Rabbits: When child Adelaide was at the amusement park all she could see was white people. The only black people she saw were her parents. I think there was like one brown guy. Then when they show the rabbits, they're almost all white but one black one and one sort of brown one. ?? Jason: That's a great explainer. I was thinking he realised his mom was a tether after he saw how brutally she attacked her enemies. Maybe Red told him the truth after she kidnapped him. Maybe he somehow overheard Red and Adelaide whispering from that one scene. He's figured it out somehow, so he's keeping his guard up (monster mask.)

You gotta mention the moments when Adelaide had finally overtaken red, as she was choking her to death she made a lot of weird guttural sounds. Of course we're supposed to believe that's just natural, and a sort of scared relief at beating the villain... But idk, as soon as she made those strange sounds, I had the idea that Adelaide wasn't really Adelaide. I didn't exactly know the whole thing, but that part really tipped me off the most before it was revealed. She seemed totally okay with killing and even seemed to enjoy it a bit

This movie is a more psychological and politically driven version of “switched at birth”

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If Jason and Pluto mimic each other because they are both half breeds (half-human and tethered) then what about Zora and Umbrae??? They should be in the same situation.

I noticed that they played “Run Rabbit Run in Get Out and they shouted “Get Out!” In “Us”

I still think Jason is a tethered. If he's not, he's very insightful. First, he was digging tunnels in the sand instead of building sandcastles. Second, he was stuck in the closet. It happened to him last year, but when his sister said, "didn't this happen last year?," he made no comment. Third, when his dad told him to get the bat asked, "what bat?" Fourth and the most important point when Pluto set the trap, we believe that Jason was the one who was controlling Pluto and sending him into the fire. But what if Pluto was controlling Jason and sending him into Red's trap? This would also mirror the dance scene where Red was the one controlling Addie and making her dance.

I personally feel like this film is actually saying ALOT of stuff about ALOT of stuff! Blew my mind.

Lupita is stunningly beautiful!!! Such a gorgeous melanin queen

Theres a huge theme of America slavery. The “tethered” were just brought to America and forgotten when they no longer served their original purpose, left to circumstances that put them at a huge disadvantage to the above ground counterparts. And the whole revelation of “We are Americans” also ties into this.

Amazing analysis!! About the rabbits I think they were also symbolic. When they are caged, the tethered clones are crazed and locked underground. But, at the end if the movie that rabbits are roaming around free, and the tethered are free above ground.

Great! Really, deep and I loved your insight, so spot-on. Thank you! Another observation is that the Jeremiah 11:11 character was probably the first to be killed by the "tethered". When he stood on the beach with his hands out, he was the 1st "tethered" version waiting for other "tethered" versions to join him in Hands Across America. Making him the 1st Hands Across America person, aka. tethered uprising.

I think I've got it!!! You have to stipulate certain things. A: The girls were indeed “born special” and that is why this happened to them and no one else. B: Much of what we see taking place combines literal occurrence with symbolism. C: The Tethered aren’t soulless. One soul is shared by both bodies and that is why they are tethered. Also, I don’t officially “count” what happened in the deleted scenes because whatever is in the final cut is responsible for telling the story. But I think that deleted scenes can corroborate the storyteller’s intent so after I fleshed this out, I watched them to see if there were any elements that bolstered my theory. I think there were, but I will leave that for the end. Many people have questions about how travel works in the underground. My thought? It doesn’t. Not really anyway. The Tethered move when their counterparts move and stop when they stop. That doesn’t necessarily mean that they have a complete match when it comes to distance and location. It functions on relativity as opposed to absolute spatial symmetry. But (original) Addy happened to be in a location where (original) Red was indeed directly underneath her. And by coincidence, fate, or whatever powers exist in their world, Red mirroring Addy’s actions when she wandered off happened to lead her right to a spot that had a way out. Perhaps their close proximity or Red’s proximity to the outside is what balanced the power/weakened the tether. But whatever the reason Red got a spark of self-awareness and free will so she took action. As to why (original) Addy didn’t just escape? Well we know that she had no idea where she was or how she had gotten there. We know that Addy’s mother was terrified by what had happened so we can presume that she not only never took (new) Addy to the Boardwalk again, but probably stayed very close to her at all times for a long time after the incident. The Tethered mother would have been mirroring those actions, making (new) Red unable to escape her clutches and get anywhere near that exit. Symbolically this shows that, while all you have can be snatched away from you in an instant, you can’t simply grab it back. It will be a long struggle to get back to where you were and you might not ever get there at all. As to how Red was doomed to copy Addy? Again, the Tethered are not irrevocably defective. Addy is an example of how under the right circumstances they can be indistinguishable from regular humans. So being born a Tethered is not the thing that binds someone to exist in another’s shadow. One soul is split between the two bodies; whichever one gets what they need to live their best life is the one who gets to be their best self. Addy came up from the underground into the arms of two parents who were invested in her. She was loved, nourished, educated, and fortified in every way necessary for her to thrive and develop. Red was stripped of everyone and everything she ever knew and trapped in a hellish prison without even a glimmer of hope that it would change causing her to deteriorate into a shell. She wasn’t born Tethered; she was made that way. Years later, the dancing was the catalyst for change. I think this is meant to symbolize the awesomeness of creative expression. Even though she was merely shadowing Addy’s performance, there was so much power in dance that it ran through her to not only break her free but to influence others. Not that a “spell” was instantly broken. The symbol here is an opportunity provided that gave Red and the others something to hope for and work towards. Which they did for years and years until they finally succeeded in coming up from underground to implement Red’s vision of a revolution. Which was oppressive and violent because her emotional maturity would have stopped developing from the time that she was trapped in addition to being warped by trauma. And I don’t believe that Addy completely remembered everything that had happened. Memory is heavily influenced by one’s current world view and self-assessment. No doubt Addy’s childhood therapy would have been focused on “reorienting” her to her environment, her life, and her “self,” and her memory was reconstructed to be consistent with her new world. Pieces of the puzzle started coming together and the picture was complete once Red was killed (perhaps this meant she now had their once shared soul all to herself?) but if she remembered everything all along, wouldn’t she have forever kept herself and her family as far away as possible from Santa Cruz? Now onto the deleted scenes. - It is true that (original) Addy was taken on by the Tethered parents because they shambled in and found her shackled to the bed. At first she thought that her real parents had come to take her home. The camera shot from her POV when they leaned in on her and she saw what they really were was absolutely bone chilling. - Addy and Kitty had a longer discussion on the beach about Addy’s dancing. The performance that we see in the film was a competition. Though that routine is traditionally a pas de deux between the Cavalier and the Sugarplum Fairy, Addy made it into a solo. She was incredibly nervous but the audience went crazy and she won first prize. She said that, aside from the births of her children, it was the greatest moment of her life. This goes to show that that performance was a pivotal moment of triumph in her life which made it powerful. Not to mention, it actually was a pas de deux…between Addy and Red. - Not so much a deleted scene, but a special feature shows the ballet performance in its entirety. It shifts between the stage and the underground. Of course Addy’s dance is reminiscent of a classic prima ballerina. However, Red’s performance is just as compelling. There’s a huge difference between a bad dancer and a talented dancer who is intentionally dancing badly so her movements were equally masterful despite the twisted, shadowy quality to them. However as the dance was ending, Red down in the tunnel let out a primal scream and executed a practically perfect tour jete before striking her final pose on the floor. Boom! A visual sign that her human normalcy was somewhere inside her and just needed a catalyst to bring it out. And now I can put Us to bed and give my full attention over to Get Out!

Best Horror movie. Blew me away Peele is an absolute genius.

Did anyone else recognize the strings version of “I got 5 on it” when Adi goes into the tunnels? Thought that was a pretty freaky thing to be included :0

Finally, a family that acts sensibly when confronted by a horror-movie situation! Great review, Eman.

Longest 15 minutes of my life (When they called the police, they said they’d be there in 15 minutes, and never arrived

Makes me think about the "third party" that buys your DNA from places like 23andMe and Ancestry DNA and what they do with it. *Insert Ominous Music" 🤔

I just want to point out the beauty behind the names each character was given. The contrast between shadow and... surface peoples. Zora- meaning the dawn, sunrise and Umbre/Umbra literally meaning shadow Jason-meaning healer and Pluto- the Roman god of the underworld ( also noting his hideous visage, depicting the opposite of anything healed, or to do with healing) Gabe/Gabriel- means Strength of God and is commonly associated with the archangel Gabriel, while Abram(notice the spelling used) means high Father, what I find so interesting about this is that Peele intentionally used Abram, instead of Abraham. The difference? Well, Biblically speaking (and I believe it was intentional this way) Abram was the original name that Abraham had, before God changed his name (a theme found throughout the Bible; a changing of names signifies salvation/being saved, reborn) The shadow husband does not have this, he is still "in sin" he is still Abram, a father yes, but there's no "light" in his name, no salvation. I thought that was really interesting. However, lastly is Adelaide who's shadow's, keep in mind, name NEVER comes up. We don't know the shadow's name because she stole it from the original(or perhaps I missed it). But Adelaide literally means nobility, so the shadow's name may have a meaning opposite that. But more importantly, back on the theme of name changes, notice how "Red" or the real Adelaide, changed her own name, believing that God had smiled down on her and chose her, in a way, she made her own salvation, the irony is, she named herself Red to symbolize the Hands Across America campaign, something she believed, symbolized change, togetherness, and charity, when truly, was nothing more than a hoax, a lie, and greed. It really wraps up the Jeremiah 11:11 scripture well, the name change, the years of planning, all for cries of help that went unanswered, she didn't get her "salvation " of a sorts. I don't know, Sorry for the long post,but its really genius of him to make these smart movies that get everyone thinking. It's fun to think. Edit: Also also, there's the "Red" theme of Esau and Jacob, another Biblical tie. Esau (Red original Adelaide) was the first born and heir to the family's birthright (Nobility, Adelaide) and his twin Jacob (the shadow Adelaide) tricked him into giving it away to him. He literally came out the womb holding Esau's heel, like a shadow. I should mention, when Esau was born he was covered in red hair. There's just so much to unpack with this movie. Love it! Tl;dr : the names have deeper meanings, I think it's cool, Peele is a Genius.

Hold on, if the tethered Addie was on the surface since she was a child, that means she was actually the one that had kids with Gabe when she grew up, so aren't Zora and Jason like half-breeds?

Lupita Nyong’o deserves the Oscar for Best Actress. Not only did she have to play two characters, those characters were basically an inversion of each other. It’s a dynamic so complicated that I can’t put it into words but Nyong’o nailed every second.

Finally, someone who isn't trying to push the "Jason was switched" theory. Great review btw!

I wish I had enough money just to pay Peele to keep making great movies like this for me to watch

This was by far the BEST analogy of the movie "Us"! Dude, you did a great job!

What's really interesting about this movie is the longer disguised Red stays above ground experiencing a normal life, the more like the others she becomes, while the real Abby who is forced to stay below resembles more the soulless, over time. This movie makes a statement on Nature v. Nuture. And also the way the Shadow people must do the exact same things as the Real people. It's like they are going " through the motions." The Real people get results from what they do, the Shadows must "go through the motions" over and over yet they never get anywhere and there are never any results from them. All the activity they must do is meaningless.

My mind is still blown

I've never left a comment for any person on youtube before. This was EXCELLENT. Very helpful and insightful.

The part of the movie that confused me the most was that the tethered sometimes had to exactly mirror the actions of the others (the rollercoasters, walking into the fire, etc) but then, at other times they were able to move independently. The best I can come up with is that because they were created to be manipulated by the government, they always need some kind of directions to follow, so when Red gave them directions (which she could do because she wasn't actually tethered), they were then able to follow her directions instead of just mirroring the above ground version of themselves. (Speaking of mirroring, the fact that this is all happening beneath a hall of mirrors is a great touch of irony)

The old saying goes, "Everyone has a twin."

In the beginning, I noticed a VHS of the movie C.H.U.D.. Which is a 80s movie about underground dwellers. I saw what you did there, Jordan

The Effort You Put In Your Research Is Second To None You Are My Favorite Film Reviewer You Always Provide A Clear And New Perspective And I AppreciateThat

The richer people hurt their Tethered more. Adi (the real one) said that every good thing that happened to her Tethered resulted to bad things happening to her, so if the richer people live a lavish life, their Tethered live one of the worse lives you could imagine. 😓 (I don't really know what i'm saying here)

You’re a brilliant speaker! You spoke for nearly half an hour and there were no stumbles or ums and uhs. You never reached for words. Great breakdown of the movie too!

11-11 is a powerful number in the spiritual community and it represents transformation and awakening consciousness. Thus, 11-11 has a duel meaning just like most everything else in the movie. The Biblical 11-11 represents the wrath of God if humanity continues on its current path of material excess and seeing our fellow inhabitants as 'other." However, 11-11 also represents that we can change course through our awakening to Oneness and to our inherent authenticity that does not rely on material excess. It is a matter of becoming aware of our shadow side and accepting it so that we do not unconsciously operate from it.

"It's almost like the government left the people with no clean water" Flint Michigan. I actually really liked this movie and I appreciate the amount of details Peele puts in his work giving audiences a new viewing experience everytime you watch his films. If your willing to look past the silly things like how they all got red suits and scissors, it becomes a great film.

Opening scene on the shelf next to the TV is a VHS tape of the movie C.H.U.D. This stands for Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers. Cheesy 80's horror movie. Hmm?

Now I understand why “Red” appeared to be a little older physically (gray hair etc.) than the other actual clones. She appeared to be old “seasoned in age” because she was actually the real Adi which was human and humans age. She has gray hair and almost lost like an old woman 👵🏾. The others didn’t. That’s also how you can determine that she was the real Adi. 🤔

White Rabbit and Alice in Wonderland are heavily tied to the theme of Mk Ultra mind control. Both this movie and Get Out are a lot about mind control.

I thought the ambulance foreshadowing when Jason used it in the door was cool too

it was so hard for me to watch this video because of the pictures of the untethered pictures lol. the evil sister's smile is so unsettling to me!!! sends chills through my spine and shoulders! that demonic, sinister smile is so terrifying!!

When Red is talking to Adelaide, it's one of the rare moments where I was just as horrified as I was heartbroken for her. The only other time I felt like that was The Fly.

I thought the 1111 on the back of the ambulance in the last scene was a nice touch.

Alsooo in the movie did any one else peep how “addy” was off beat while snapping with her son in the car and that when she was asked why she doesn’t dance anymore she nervously answered “I peeked early” bruhhh the clone didn’t have rhythm and when they switched she didn’t have rhythm

I FINALLY watched Us last night, & it was as great as I hoped it to be!!! However like most it was a bit to process. I knew there would be a video on RU-vid to help explain things, this video was magnificent. Lol, I’m still processing this movie but, it’s really just genuine amazement because of how great this movie was!!! This movie broke many horror movie barriers & just wow lol.