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I know they kinda mirror their twins lives but it was never her house if you think about it. Adelaide never fell in love with her husband (dont remember his name), red did, she never raised her children, red did. Idk if you get what im saying
The slow progression of Adelaide getting more and more feral, while Red moves gracefully out of the way when she attacks, feels like a big visual representation of who they truly are. Adelaide is the true Tethered, and Red is the true human
Just realized how messed up it is that even though "Red" is stabbed and most likely going to die, "Adelaide" still strangles her to death. Finishing what she started when they were kids.
I love how gracefully Red moves compared to Adelaide, and her fighting style makes sense if you consider she's "actually human". We've seen the tethered take much more damage than would kill a human, so she probably knew that one solid hit would be fatal.
@@yourmom-lv8ob The idea here is that since Red is the real human, she's aware that she can't take as many hits as Adelaide, and thus needs a "style" that lets her avoid getting hit.
"Red" whistling "Itsy Bitsy Spider" was perhaps a last mocking to "Adelaide", implying that as much as she likes to deny it, however repressed her memory was, the real tethered is her, not "Red". It is as if her last thoughts were "You killed me, but how will you explain this to your son? Who, by the way, is in this room I led you to, and may have seen all of this, including your feral state now."
nice interpretation but i thought it was a reference to her childhood that she lost & the metaphor of her being the itsy bitsy spider since Red came & washed her away & got to live the life that should’ve been hers again
** (Spoilers)** See when this movie first came out, I watched it and had to learn about the whole plot and underlying messages being played throughout. I learned that during the entirety of the movie you can see signs of who is the real Adelaide and who is Red because of one tell tell sign... Rhythm and that is something that only the real Adelaide possessed while “Red” didn’t have that for her entirety of her life i.e. when she “snaps” her fingers to the beat of “I Got 5 On It” and also when Adelaide was beating her during the fight is because Adelaide knew the place and had great Rhythm with her steps. The more ya know😁
Lupita Nyonga said the inspirations for her movements where from cockroaches. Whenever you turn the light on the way they crawl in move from one to another.
When Adelaide killed red you could see her becoming monstrous and animalistic because she doesn’t have a human counterpart to be tethered to anymore. She cut her last thread of humanity
i dont know if this is an purposeful detail, but if you look closely, when Red starts to whistle, Adelaide's mouth started to move too, because SHE is the shadow and Red is the real one
I think the movie really shows that it doesn’t really matter who the tethered and who the „real one“ is. They are the same, have the same soul but the sourroundings and Experiences change who they are and at the same time follow them.
there's so much going on here. adelaide's increasing frustration/rage as red calmly and gracefully beats her each time, plus her last scream of victory, calls back to how the tethered behave. being back in the bunker, fumbling after red but clearly vastly uncoordinated in comparison to her really flips the script on them. red is the more graceful, the more neat, calm, the more "human" whereas adelaide is covered in blood (evoking a feeling of violence, being tainted) and unable to keep up. they even make it so that adelaide is the one chasing and initiating attacks on red, while red, despite having multiple chances to kill adelaide, dances away and waits for her to make the first move, only cutting or stabbing after adelaide makes a swipe. i think this is red's way of reminding adelaide of their original roles as tethered and untethered. this backfires on red, though, because it's only once adelaide begins to remember/connect with her roots that she is able to kill red, like she could sense through the connection she's just unburied in her mind where red is moving, like how she knew exactly when to turn and stab when red snuck up behind her, something adelaide wasn't able to do before. even red's last "words," her whistling, i think is meant to accuse adelaide, to remind her that red is the Real Person and adelaide the clone. red is already dying but adelaide chokes her out because she can't stand the reminder. remember that when adelaide was a tethered, she also wanted to escape her life. her rage and actions as a child echo red's as an adult. it's so fun that if you begin to feel sympathy for red after knowing what she'd gone through, you also have to have sympathy for adelaide who essentially did the same exact thing but as a child. if you root for adelaide then you have to admit that what tethered are doing isn't in any way different from what she had done.
@Azzir no, she wanted to take back HER life, but if you had watched the movie or at least the fight scene, you would know that she said she also wanted to make a statement, I imagine she was angry and wanted to make a point to everyone in the world at that point..
@Azzir the tethered Adelaide switched her life....she literally chocked her out and locked her in the underground with those zombies...imagine how alone and scared she must’ve felt, she was forced to eat live raw rabbits her whole life and imagine how much she missed her parents...she was alone, not mentioning the fact that she was raped multiple times by the tethered dad bc they had to mimic everything and she had to birth 2 children all by herself..they were ripped out of her by her will. Your telling me you wouldn’t be mad?
Well the real adelaide seems didn’t know that she was “the real” one so its not like she want to take her place back. she just a pure evil genius that can gathered the tethered to massacare “the real”
It was Addy's final F U to her counterpart. Earlier in the film, we see that "Adelaide" can't whistle all that well. This was a power play to show that, even in death, she was the true Addy all along.
it doesn't need anything, it's a social commentary about unimaginable inequity being inherent to luxurious and even middle-class lifestyles. for every adelaide there's at another red, maybe she'd be a kid slaving in some sweatshop to make your textiles, or one of those kids who mines the mica that goes into cosmetic products. the haves and have nots are separated by the arbitrariness of ones birth and the opportunities available to them. and we do relatively nothing to change it.
@@captivatingcurios And if we try to change it people attacks us. I worked at a place where we helped poor children and gave food and taught a lot of stuff for free,and sometimes people said we were commie shit for doing that,that we were helping criminals cuz we were helping people from the favela.
It doesnt need anything, its perfect in its way. I am you you are me we are all the same but yet we decide to let others suffer for our wealth and freedom. There is no you and me only us.
That's just sad. Is it wrong to feel sorry for Adelaide/Red? The real doppelganger trapped her down in those tunnels for years and took her place. The doppelganger had a great life while Red life was filled with darkness. It makes me wonder who the real villain is in this movie.
Original Adelaide is definitely the villain. What tethered Adelaide did was definitely wrong, but she was a child and wanted to escape her terrible life. Original Adelaide arranged the mass murder of essentially the entire US population when she could have just killed tethered Adelaide.
1:22 does anybody else notice the slight slip in "Adelaide's" movements here? We often see how a lot of the tethered have sharp, unnatural, jerky motions. Could this be a slip in "Adelaide's" facade as she gets more and more desperate to kill her "real" counterpart?
this is true, but that's also partially the point. it's conflicting as to WHO you want to root for, because you've seen Adelaide struggle and fight for her family the entire movie, and that proves that not even we could tell that she was the "fake Adelaide". so all in all it just makes you think: as much as it was extremely evil of her to trap the real Adelaide in the underground and steal her life, she clearly WANTED this life bad enough and fights tooth and nail to protect the family she made IN this life.
@@dragonflymarcusnot to mention it’s understandable that she wanted to escape. The tethered live very miserable lives underground, destined to do nothing but copy the actions of their human counterparts above grounds
Red got the sympathy of everyone and so does mine. However, for how I understood the entire movie- the fake Adelaide also had it bad. Guess this movie had shown the difference of privileged compared for those who don't really have the option and choices in order to live normally- to the point that you have to take "that" opportunity for yourself no matter what is the cost. Adelaide might have been the real Tethered, a doppelganger who stole someone's life away for herself- but the friends she made, the husband she had, and the child she cherished are all hers. So from the beginning, she had the right to be agitated when Jason, her son was taken away. If you'll think about it, she's pretty smart for a Tethered when she was young. Luring out a human in that dim place isn't an easy feat. I guess the Adelaide we have here knew that what she did wasn't good to the point that she buried her memories down, only recalling it at that moment when she began to become aggravated. The real Adelaide's sentiment was: "You could have taken me with you." was something a Tethered couldn't understand and things would have gone different if so. So for me, the real doppelganger "Adelaide" just killed the real "Adelaide" by survival instincts. The family, friends, and ties she made with others that made her humane are all hers. Her own effort. I sympathize with the real Adelaide but at the same time, I can understand the real "Red's" intentions at the end.
I understand the ties she formed were real. But it was built off of a lie. The lie is the start of the building so it is the foundation, all her bonds and ties are the buildings walls and floors and ceilings. A building wit a weak foundation would crumble. You think if the family was revealed the truth of what happen to Adelaide, I highly doubt it.and on top of that red ain’t entitled to shit, cause if Adelaide had her life back from when she left the house of mirrors. She would’ve had a better life then red did if not the same. Cause red had to learn speaking and other stuff from scratch while Adelaide already had that under her belt
@Ruth Esther even tho the real Adelaide was stuck in the underground, she grew up to become red, so the tethered is Adelaide and the original girl is Red
as much as it would have been nice she wouldn't have survived. She was mentally disturbed and had the mind of an eerie six year old. Plus don't forget that she made up a plan to kill millions of people. She of course deserved a much better life but at that point she just couldn't have had it, so it is much better that she just ended up dying.
What really creeps me out it the hallways that the tethereds lived in. It looks like a endless mall that they sleep in and do whatever in. Also do they have bathrooms down there?
For anybody confused here is a brief solution: Red is the actual Adelaine but was choked out and had been handcuffed down there alone. And the Tether is the one with the husband and two kids. The "new" Adelaide. That's why she was grunting towards the end when she strangled Red or the REAL Adelaide. Hope this helps.
Well, to anyone who watched the movie, all of that should be perfectly clear. And to anyone who didn’t, not sure I’d recommend watching a random scene from the movie on RU-vid, let alone reading its comment section.
So why she was so nice than. She didnt seem bad or came off like that. I am so confuse the girl that choke. Her in the mirror that grew up. Seemed so nice I dont get the movie. Its so confusing,
@@star0138 "Adelaide" was able to grow up a normal human, that's why she was nice. It's an analogy for social classes, some people are born with everything while others are born with nothing. It shows that nurture always trumps nature, that we as humans are influenced by our environments every single day and that shapes who we are.
@@615outeast8 I mean I get what yall saying but in the literal sense the Real Adelaide is Red because she’s the one that came up with the idea she’s the one that saw the Hands Across America commercial in 1986, she’s the reason why all the tethered wore red, and did the demonstration anyway
Here is an analogy: As they are identified in the film, "Adelaide"=The original Red/The Tethered who took the real Adelaide's place in her life "Red"=The original Adelaide/the actual human who involuntarily took the real Red's place as a Tethered.
people debating which is the villain when in reality neither are; it’s the society they were put in and built in that continues to build hatred and chaos between the two (hence jordan peels take on society)
Oddly, the original is both Adelaide and Red. But the clone can be called Adelaide because they switched places. And Red, the original Adelaide, is Red because of her uniform. The clone doesn't have a name before switching. The named tethers are named because an original named them.
Wow I should’ve known “Adelaide” was Red the whole time cause she was moving like the doppelgängers while she was chasing “Red” down and even made that weird face while choking her
This comments are full of naive ppl. The kind of broken family Addy was coming from would not have just accepted two addies, the surface one couldn't have just been taken with tethered Addy, if she had been a whole other set of problems woulda happened for both of them. Both were wrong in their decisions, tethered Addy for stealing surface Addy's life and surface Addy for having a hunch the government was behind all of it and mobilizing the tethered against people and not the people in power. Of course her trauma and her hands across America thing being the only true tether she had to the surface rly didn't allow for that type of objectivity and clear thinking. This was a tragedy for everyone and there are no villains or heroes, just people in a fucked up situation no one wanted to be part of. Kinda like us in the real world.
Red has a point, though. Why DIDN'T she just go with "Adelaide"? Why do what she did, when they both could have lived happily? I mean...I KNOW why. I'm not blind to the heavy use of symbolism in the film. But it's still a question worth asking.
Forgoing all the symbolism, there are so many practical reasons, even if Red wasn't aware of it at the time. Adelaide can talk and Red can't, so the parents might have rejected Red or turned her into foster care. A little girl that looks exactly like your daughter even down to wearing the same clothes and pigtails...but can't talk also means a call to the police to make a report, maybe find out what's going on. The federal government would get wind of the situation EXTREMELY soon, and since they created the clones to control the public well...
Because originally, the clones have no empathy. Red maybe have learned to develop empathy and humanity with time because she switched places with the real Adelide and took her place in the surface, but she wasn't born with empathy like real humans do. As a "shadow", she only knew how to operate in a survival mode to get the fu* out of the underworld no matter what, because her suffering down there was so excruciating that she was primarily and only focused on her own calamity.
I admit I didn't see the plot-twist coming (I predicted some exchange among the little boys, as they are often both masked), and I notice only now that the actual Red reverts to the animalistic sounds of the tethered when she kills the actual Adelaide. Well played I say!
@@DarthVader1977 then you go try to make it la Sonia just know being toxic and spreads hates,why not spend your useless time on somewhere more than making people laugh and mad
I like to believe that Adelaide fixed Red's vocal problem after she was choked by her because she was whistling fine after getting impaled by Adelaide AKA The Real Doppelganger.
How you could have taken me with you,” Red wistfully states to the Adelaide that has taken over her life. All that you have, all that you are, all that you've become - you took from me.
4:15 This part when shows how Adelaide is acting really crazy and disturbing while chocking red with those hand cuffs it’s showing how her true evil side is coming out of her which makes red the real Adelaide but as they both fight her true form keeps coming out cards it’s having a hated relationship with the good one. Cause see how fake Adelaide movements are like an zombie like that’s it’s revealing her true self
Everyone of us has a tethered. Think of your doppelganger, living right now somewhere under your feet, next time you look to the ground. It might be a horror story shadow you, like in the movie. Or it might be a real life shadow you, who has it much better, or much worse. Either way, if you were exchanged, no-one would notice the difference. Which brings up the question, how much of yourself is actually, tangibly and irreplaceably, there. Or rather, just made out of your surroundings.
Does anyone else feel like the twist undermines the point? The idea of their being people just so we can live comfortably just feels bitter when we learn her life was stolen (Ps shout out to the misleading title being accurate nice job Ali Shozab)
This movie was so hard. I can understand both perspectives. Red wanting to leave the evil environment so taking the life of Adelaide. And Adelaide wanting back what was supposed to be hers.
Tethered are legit superhuman when it comes to health. They dont die as easily as normal people. In this case "red" is a normal human while "Adelaide" is a tethered.
I feel like you all don't really get it though. Yes we should feel bad that she was swapped and everything, but either way we would have felt bad for whoever had to live in the tunnels. If red was actually just the tethered version then we all would have felt bad that she had to live a life in the tunnels. I think the fact that everyone is saying they feel bad for red reveals what the movie wanted to reveal, not that Adelaide should have taken red, I agree and feel bad for red. And I don't want to sound like I'm trying to insult all the people saying that they feel bad for red either. I just feel like we're playing right into what the movie wanted us to do. But to be honest I feel bad for either, I can see why Adelaide would want to swap, and it must be bad having your life be taken from you. And yes Adelaide should have just taken her with her but she's a tethered, it's not exactly like she has much thought that is her own.
@@redx3816 Ok I know I'm two years late but umm I wat he'd the movie when I was 9 like when it first came out but umm red is not evil her life was stolen from her from when she was a little girl. The one in the non jumpsuit is the cloned one and not actually the real her. Adeline was jealous of red because she actually had a real life so she had stolen the life that belonged to red alll along. So along Red was actually trying to kill Adeline to take back the life that had actually been stolen from her. Hope this helps
@@june8800 she got smacked around tied to something twice and kicked in the stomach and stabbed on the hand and stabbed in the stomach I know it’s not real but how is her CHARACTER still alive😳
@@AleenahAnderson The tethered are stronger than the regular humans. Stronger as in more tolerant to wounds so since the one in white is the actual strong one, she was able to take all that. That's why Adeleide (the one in orange) was being extra careful with the fight. She probably trained a little because she knew one stab, she would be done but bot the other way around.
I know Red Jacket Is The Real Adelaide But Did the white shirt know that they took Adelaide's life it was probably a mistake thats why I was cheering for the white shirt.
I still don't get the whole " if it wasn't for you I wouldn't have ever danced" if the original was down she controls the clone so when they switched how did the clone make real adelaide Learn to dance. The original controls the clone not the other way around.
Your wrong. The original naturally controls the clones, because the clones aren’t aware they can control the original as well, it’s not like the tether are mindless puppets, they share the same soul as the original, that’s why they were able to kill the originals, and not be forced to mimic what they do.
This Red was young Adelaine or young Red? never got to watch the film tho, cause somehow I got kind of spoiler, they switched place when they were young.
Red is the actual Adelaine but was choked out and had been handcuffed down there alone. And the Tether is the one with the husband and two kids. The "new" Adelaide. That's why she was grunting towards the end when she strangled Red or the REAL Adelaide. Hope this helps.
Red could have killed Adelaide so many times. But she ultimately has more compassion and humanity then Adelaide. She has never killed anyone (so we have seen) though it would be justified. Her above ground counterparts in contrast make light of how many kills they have each had.
