Not so much "anyone" but any race.
Jordan Peele new movie "Us" - updated with trailer (contains spoilers)
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Not so much "anyone" but any race.
it follows was a dope ass concept a std that really kills you . so you pass it along to someone else. i didn't like the final act too much but a dope flick compared to us.
same, and i went to see It Follows in the movies. The ending didn't grab me, but the rest of the movie was pretty good.
Saw it today and loved it. It had that Kubrick vibe in that you there's a lot of shit going on subconsciously but you can't put your finger on it. Was Red the leader of the underground slave rebellion? Underground railroad? Did the tethered only kill white folk up until the very end of the movie? lol. I remember "Fuck the Police" started blasting after one got killed. "Fuck the police comin straight from the UNDERGROUND. So much to unpack I gotta see it again. Peele is a genius.
Yeah, I thought it lost some steam coming down the stretch but I thought it was so well made considering it was done for so little and I thought it did a better job of laying out the premise and explaining the rules of the world.
And it had that didn't scare me so much as it just felt creepy.
Maybe I'm alone in this but the movie just wasn't all that great to me. The movie felt like a comedy, I found myself laughing more than anything. And there lies my first gripe with the movie, 1. There were many moments that could have been tense/suspension building moments but they get ruined by comedy, most by Duke. 2. The decisions the family/parents made lacked common sense or weren't actions i'd expect from a typical black family, that killed some of the realism for me, for example the boat scenes, or how one crack to the knee that didn't break it kept homeboy on the floor, where as anyone else I know in that situation, whether from adrenaline or whatever, is gonna get tf up and either attack and try to run away, limping/hopping/whatever. Those main 2 really made me start to check out of the movie mentally, found myself saying "oh come on.. " too many times. 3. I was expecting more on the "horror". Doesn't mean jump scares or anything cheesy, but maybe some scary torture scene or something or something to just really build on the creepy factor of the characters. Their intro started off well in that regard but as the movie progressed, it became far less.. "horrific". 4. Lack of explanation on the origination of the tethered and how they survived, only assumptions to be made. 5. There's mass murder taking place all over the world, so much that it makes the news, but no intervention from the army/military/navy/special forces/swat/federal reserve/etc..? -___- 6. The tethered come to the surface, kill their counterparts and stand holding hands... ok.. They're just gonna stand there, holding hands.. forever...? That whole thing seemed a bit pointless to me. Would have made sense if they held hands for the 15 mins, then proceeded to live above ground.
Idk, I loved "Get Out" but this one? I wouldn't spend money to watch again.
Idk, I loved "Get Out" but this one? I wouldn't spend money to watch again.
He got me. I've seen it twice already
I enjoyed the movie
But it’s not in the same ballpark as Get Out which is a classic
And I think it’s because while Get Out had a simple premise (a surgeon learned to transplant brains into stolen black bodies), this one had too many and thus too many plot holes for logical viewers
If he hadn’t given the escaped doppelganger a family the plot would have been easier to keep logical
But If she didn’t have a family fewer people would care (just like having the kids in Birdbox made more people care about Sandra Bullock)
But it’s not in the same ballpark as Get Out which is a classic
And I think it’s because while Get Out had a simple premise (a surgeon learned to transplant brains into stolen black bodies), this one had too many and thus too many plot holes for logical viewers
If he hadn’t given the escaped doppelganger a family the plot would have been easier to keep logical
But If she didn’t have a family fewer people would care (just like having the kids in Birdbox made more people care about Sandra Bullock)
better after a rewatch but still not as good as i was hoping. I also think people are trying too hard to find hidden meanings.
yeah, some are. It's pretty straight forward if you think about it.
"Hate" is a strong word.
Thsis not a binary scale
You can really like the move and still criticize it
Or say its not as good as Get out
I may love my Toyota but also say it's not a BMW
Unpacking Reddit’s Wildest Theory About Us
By Rebecca Alter
Photo: Claudette Barius/Universal Studios
Beneath the surface of civil society live our mysterious, shadowy counterparts, feral and sun-starved: Redditors. Since seemingly everyone and their doppelgänger saw Usover the weekend, fan theories have popped up on Reddit like — uh — rabbits, with viewers following the copious Easter eggs scattered throughout the film by Jordan Peele. A lot of these are patently goofy, but one in particular — if true — would add a whole other dimension to the film. We’ve laid out the case, and the evidence, below. Because if the fingerless glove fits …
Spoilers ahead. And if you don’t know what the tethered are, you will not understand this theory.
The Setup
In the final scene of the film, the Wilsons are winding their way out of Santa Cruz in an ambulance, safe for now from the tethered doubles that took over their home and wreaked havoc all over their vacation. In our final moments with the family, the Protagonist Formerly Known As Adelaide (Lupita Nyong’o) turns to her son, Jason (Evan Alex), and gives him a smile that is definitely not not evil. The beat echoes the final twist of Michael Jackson’s Thriller, a piece of ‘80s American monoculture that looms over the film from its opening scene. At this point, it dawns on both Jason and the audience that they might not be free of the monsters after all. Of course, they aren’t. In this movie’s twist, we learn that Adelaide and her underground doppelgänger Red swapped places one night in 1986, meaning Adelaide — unbeknownst to her husband and kids — has been a tethered all along. Suspicions raised by that smile, Jason pulls his werewolf mask back down, and the family drives on.
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The Theory
What some view as a look of suspicion on Jason’s face, others read more as a look of recognition. The theory? Jason and his tethered double, Pluto, also swapped identities.
On Friday, Reddit user hoopsterben posted in /r/FanTheories: “I believe the summer before the movie takes place, the boy and his ‘tethered’ also switched places … At the end, he has realized that his mother, at one point, has also switched bodies. She gives him a look almost like ‘I also know what you know’ and then he puts on his mask, as a symbol of the masks they will now wear for the rest of their lives.”
Whew! So the boy we knew to be Jason, like the woman we thought to be Adelaide, was a tethered the entire time. And if the swap took place during the previous summer, perhaps when Jason went missing after having locked himself in the vacation home’s closet, it would explain why he’s forgotten how to do a certain magic trick. Other variations on the theory suggest that Jason and Pluto swapped places years earlier, which would explain why Pluto scampers on all fours now and has reverted to a preverbal state. It’s a big claim, but consider …
The Evidence
The werewolf mask: If we read Adelaide’s final conspiratorial grin through the lens of Thriller, then the following shot, of Jason redonning the werewolf mask, can be seen in the same light: a tell that he’s also a “monster.”
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The tunnels: As a couple of people on Reddit have pointed out, when the family is at the beach, Jason isn’t building sand castles. He’s making sand tunnels, which — in addition to being a feat of sand-engineering — could link the character to the tethered’s subterranean home.
The closet: Jason likes to play by himself in the confined darkness of the closet. The Tyler twins think that’s weird, to which Zora responds: He has trouble focusing. This could all just mean he’s a troubled kid … But that’s what Adelaide’s parents thought about her, too.
The drawing: At home, Adelaide discovers a drawing made by Jason depicting his encounter with the tethered form of the Jeremiah 11:11 man — the man that Adelaide spotted on the beach before descending into the maze in ‘86, and whose original was being carted away in an ambulance when the family first arrived in Santa Cruz. The style of the drawing, featuring the backs of Jason’s and the Jeremiah 11:11 man’s heads, alarms Adelaide, because it takes on the same creepy perspective of Adelaide’s memory of encountering her mirror image.
However, it also hints that the somewhat reserved Jason, like his mother in the flashback at the child psychologist’s office, has been encouraged to draw to express himself. We later learn that this was the case for Adelaide because, after leaving the tethered underworld, she was still preverbal. The connection might hint at a similar situation for Jason and Pluto.
Mirroring: As has been pointed out on Reddit, Pluto is the only member of the tethered family who does not try to murder his double. In fact, when they’re sent to “play” together in the closet, they engage in a mirroring game, almost communicating through matching each other’s movements. (Kitty — who went to Stella Adler, after all — would be shook by the dramatic technique.) They appear to have a much closer bond than Zora or Gabe and their respective doubles, bringing them closer in our understanding to Red and Adelaide.
Control: We learn that in the world of Us, the tethered are a failed underground experiment, intended to be used to control the untethered population above ground. (Who is choreographing the control? That’s a question for another Reddit thread.) This suggests that the tethered have some element of power over their counterparts — we can even see how they anticipate, predict, and parry the untethered’s movements — and drives home the unsettling idea that above-ground humans might not have as much agency over our lives as we think we do. It would also explain how Jason is able to manipulate Pluto into walking backward into the fire: it’s both a reference to their mirror game, and a sign that Jason — the real tethered — can exert control over his untethered.
Speaking of fire: In a popular, related theory, fans claim that the lower half of Pluto’s face isn’t just covered in burns because he likes to play with matches. The theory supposes that every time newly swapped Jason tried and failed to do his “magic trick,” holding the trick lighter right up to his face, Pluto matched the movement and suffered burns because of it. Which is further proof that Pluto is the original, untethered son, controlled by Jason.
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The rabbit: Redditor Verdyz has suggested that if the rabbits are meant to symbolize the tethered in any way — a connection we understand from the opening credits onward — then the rabbit in Jason’s lap at the end of the movie suggests that he, too, is an escaped tethered.
The tuxedo shirt: This one is bonkers but I love it. From redditor CuriousPetie: “Everyone has been mentioning how Jason wears a tuxedo pajama top. In the friend’s house, he grabs a statue (reminding you of an Oscar). First, I thought this was Peele doing a self-insert, showing how he won an Oscar. Now, I interpret it as Peele showing us that Jason has been the best actor in this all along.”
“Kiss my anus!”: Kids say the darndest things … or the tethered mangle the darndest phrases?
The snapping: In an early scene, Jason has trouble snapping on the beat, and Adelaide “helps” him, although many have pointed out, in a Get Out–ishdetail, she herself is snapping closer to the first and third beats — an early sign that something isn’t quite right, and another hint at the characters’ special connection.
My Evidence
In addition to what’s been found on Reddit, I had to get in on the conspiracy. Here are some additional potential clues:
The Lost Boys: In the opening scene, young Adelaide’s mother notices that they’re filming something on the Santa Cruz boardwalk, which Jason Bailey pointed out to be the 1987 vampire film The Lost Boys. “Lost Boys,” you say? There are coincidences and then there are coincidences.
Jason Voorhees: Bailey noted Us’s many similarities to A Nightmare on Elm Street too, but there’s something to be said for the movie’s connections to Freddy Kruger’s one-time rival, the other patron slasher of the ‘80s and the youngest Wilson’s namesake, Jason. In the first Friday the 13th movie, the slasher is revealed to be Jason’s mother, Mrs. Voorhees, avenging her son’s death. In the many (many) sequels, Jason himself emerges from the murky depths to go on a killing spree, wearing a mask. The connection to this film’s Jason — who wears a mask and has close ties to his potentially nefarious mother — suggests something darker lurking beneath the surface.
Jaws: Jason wears a shirt emblazoned with the famous Jaws poster, which shows a monster hidden underneath an unsuspecting human.
The Verdict
Toward the end of the first act of Us, Adelaide confesses to Gabe that she’s scared, that since coming to Santa Cruz she’s noticed coincidences everywhere, enough to seem like they’re part of some larger scheme. Jordan Peele wants his viewers to be alert for clues and Easter eggs, to notice his deliberate planning. Whether this means these clues add up to Jason being a tethered, or Peele just wanting to sew paranoia, is up to you. As a friend who is firmly in the Pluto-is-Jason camp told me after seeing Us this weekend: “It’s Schrödinger’s rabbit.”
By Rebecca Alter
Photo: Claudette Barius/Universal Studios
Beneath the surface of civil society live our mysterious, shadowy counterparts, feral and sun-starved: Redditors. Since seemingly everyone and their doppelgänger saw Usover the weekend, fan theories have popped up on Reddit like — uh — rabbits, with viewers following the copious Easter eggs scattered throughout the film by Jordan Peele. A lot of these are patently goofy, but one in particular — if true — would add a whole other dimension to the film. We’ve laid out the case, and the evidence, below. Because if the fingerless glove fits …
Spoilers ahead. And if you don’t know what the tethered are, you will not understand this theory.
The Setup
In the final scene of the film, the Wilsons are winding their way out of Santa Cruz in an ambulance, safe for now from the tethered doubles that took over their home and wreaked havoc all over their vacation. In our final moments with the family, the Protagonist Formerly Known As Adelaide (Lupita Nyong’o) turns to her son, Jason (Evan Alex), and gives him a smile that is definitely not not evil. The beat echoes the final twist of Michael Jackson’s Thriller, a piece of ‘80s American monoculture that looms over the film from its opening scene. At this point, it dawns on both Jason and the audience that they might not be free of the monsters after all. Of course, they aren’t. In this movie’s twist, we learn that Adelaide and her underground doppelgänger Red swapped places one night in 1986, meaning Adelaide — unbeknownst to her husband and kids — has been a tethered all along. Suspicions raised by that smile, Jason pulls his werewolf mask back down, and the family drives on.
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The Theory
What some view as a look of suspicion on Jason’s face, others read more as a look of recognition. The theory? Jason and his tethered double, Pluto, also swapped identities.
On Friday, Reddit user hoopsterben posted in /r/FanTheories: “I believe the summer before the movie takes place, the boy and his ‘tethered’ also switched places … At the end, he has realized that his mother, at one point, has also switched bodies. She gives him a look almost like ‘I also know what you know’ and then he puts on his mask, as a symbol of the masks they will now wear for the rest of their lives.”
Whew! So the boy we knew to be Jason, like the woman we thought to be Adelaide, was a tethered the entire time. And if the swap took place during the previous summer, perhaps when Jason went missing after having locked himself in the vacation home’s closet, it would explain why he’s forgotten how to do a certain magic trick. Other variations on the theory suggest that Jason and Pluto swapped places years earlier, which would explain why Pluto scampers on all fours now and has reverted to a preverbal state. It’s a big claim, but consider …
The Evidence
The werewolf mask: If we read Adelaide’s final conspiratorial grin through the lens of Thriller, then the following shot, of Jason redonning the werewolf mask, can be seen in the same light: a tell that he’s also a “monster.”
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The tunnels: As a couple of people on Reddit have pointed out, when the family is at the beach, Jason isn’t building sand castles. He’s making sand tunnels, which — in addition to being a feat of sand-engineering — could link the character to the tethered’s subterranean home.
The closet: Jason likes to play by himself in the confined darkness of the closet. The Tyler twins think that’s weird, to which Zora responds: He has trouble focusing. This could all just mean he’s a troubled kid … But that’s what Adelaide’s parents thought about her, too.
The drawing: At home, Adelaide discovers a drawing made by Jason depicting his encounter with the tethered form of the Jeremiah 11:11 man — the man that Adelaide spotted on the beach before descending into the maze in ‘86, and whose original was being carted away in an ambulance when the family first arrived in Santa Cruz. The style of the drawing, featuring the backs of Jason’s and the Jeremiah 11:11 man’s heads, alarms Adelaide, because it takes on the same creepy perspective of Adelaide’s memory of encountering her mirror image.
However, it also hints that the somewhat reserved Jason, like his mother in the flashback at the child psychologist’s office, has been encouraged to draw to express himself. We later learn that this was the case for Adelaide because, after leaving the tethered underworld, she was still preverbal. The connection might hint at a similar situation for Jason and Pluto.
Mirroring: As has been pointed out on Reddit, Pluto is the only member of the tethered family who does not try to murder his double. In fact, when they’re sent to “play” together in the closet, they engage in a mirroring game, almost communicating through matching each other’s movements. (Kitty — who went to Stella Adler, after all — would be shook by the dramatic technique.) They appear to have a much closer bond than Zora or Gabe and their respective doubles, bringing them closer in our understanding to Red and Adelaide.
Control: We learn that in the world of Us, the tethered are a failed underground experiment, intended to be used to control the untethered population above ground. (Who is choreographing the control? That’s a question for another Reddit thread.) This suggests that the tethered have some element of power over their counterparts — we can even see how they anticipate, predict, and parry the untethered’s movements — and drives home the unsettling idea that above-ground humans might not have as much agency over our lives as we think we do. It would also explain how Jason is able to manipulate Pluto into walking backward into the fire: it’s both a reference to their mirror game, and a sign that Jason — the real tethered — can exert control over his untethered.
Speaking of fire: In a popular, related theory, fans claim that the lower half of Pluto’s face isn’t just covered in burns because he likes to play with matches. The theory supposes that every time newly swapped Jason tried and failed to do his “magic trick,” holding the trick lighter right up to his face, Pluto matched the movement and suffered burns because of it. Which is further proof that Pluto is the original, untethered son, controlled by Jason.
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The rabbit: Redditor Verdyz has suggested that if the rabbits are meant to symbolize the tethered in any way — a connection we understand from the opening credits onward — then the rabbit in Jason’s lap at the end of the movie suggests that he, too, is an escaped tethered.
The tuxedo shirt: This one is bonkers but I love it. From redditor CuriousPetie: “Everyone has been mentioning how Jason wears a tuxedo pajama top. In the friend’s house, he grabs a statue (reminding you of an Oscar). First, I thought this was Peele doing a self-insert, showing how he won an Oscar. Now, I interpret it as Peele showing us that Jason has been the best actor in this all along.”
“Kiss my anus!”: Kids say the darndest things … or the tethered mangle the darndest phrases?
The snapping: In an early scene, Jason has trouble snapping on the beat, and Adelaide “helps” him, although many have pointed out, in a Get Out–ishdetail, she herself is snapping closer to the first and third beats — an early sign that something isn’t quite right, and another hint at the characters’ special connection.
My Evidence
In addition to what’s been found on Reddit, I had to get in on the conspiracy. Here are some additional potential clues:
The Lost Boys: In the opening scene, young Adelaide’s mother notices that they’re filming something on the Santa Cruz boardwalk, which Jason Bailey pointed out to be the 1987 vampire film The Lost Boys. “Lost Boys,” you say? There are coincidences and then there are coincidences.
Jason Voorhees: Bailey noted Us’s many similarities to A Nightmare on Elm Street too, but there’s something to be said for the movie’s connections to Freddy Kruger’s one-time rival, the other patron slasher of the ‘80s and the youngest Wilson’s namesake, Jason. In the first Friday the 13th movie, the slasher is revealed to be Jason’s mother, Mrs. Voorhees, avenging her son’s death. In the many (many) sequels, Jason himself emerges from the murky depths to go on a killing spree, wearing a mask. The connection to this film’s Jason — who wears a mask and has close ties to his potentially nefarious mother — suggests something darker lurking beneath the surface.
Jaws: Jason wears a shirt emblazoned with the famous Jaws poster, which shows a monster hidden underneath an unsuspecting human.
The Verdict
Toward the end of the first act of Us, Adelaide confesses to Gabe that she’s scared, that since coming to Santa Cruz she’s noticed coincidences everywhere, enough to seem like they’re part of some larger scheme. Jordan Peele wants his viewers to be alert for clues and Easter eggs, to notice his deliberate planning. Whether this means these clues add up to Jason being a tethered, or Peele just wanting to sew paranoia, is up to you. As a friend who is firmly in the Pluto-is-Jason camp told me after seeing Us this weekend: “It’s Schrödinger’s rabbit.”
Unpacking Reddit’s Wildest Theory About Us
By Rebecca Alter
Photo: Claudette Barius/Universal Studios
Beneath the surface of civil society live our mysterious, shadowy counterparts, feral and sun-starved: Redditors. Since seemingly everyone and their doppelgänger saw Usover the weekend, fan theories have popped up on Reddit like — uh — rabbits, with viewers following the copious Easter eggs scattered throughout the film by Jordan Peele. A lot of these are patently goofy, but one in particular — if true — would add a whole other dimension to the film. We’ve laid out the case, and the evidence, below. Because if the fingerless glove fits …
Spoilers ahead. And if you don’t know what the tethered are, you will not understand this theory.
The Setup
In the final scene of the film, the Wilsons are winding their way out of Santa Cruz in an ambulance, safe for now from the tethered doubles that took over their home and wreaked havoc all over their vacation. In our final moments with the family, the Protagonist Formerly Known As Adelaide (Lupita Nyong’o) turns to her son, Jason (Evan Alex), and gives him a smile that is definitely not not evil. The beat echoes the final twist of Michael Jackson’s Thriller, a piece of ‘80s American monoculture that looms over the film from its opening scene. At this point, it dawns on both Jason and the audience that they might not be free of the monsters after all. Of course, they aren’t. In this movie’s twist, we learn that Adelaide and her underground doppelgänger Red swapped places one night in 1986, meaning Adelaide — unbeknownst to her husband and kids — has been a tethered all along. Suspicions raised by that smile, Jason pulls his werewolf mask back down, and the family drives on.
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The Theory
What some view as a look of suspicion on Jason’s face, others read more as a look of recognition. The theory? Jason and his tethered double, Pluto, also swapped identities.
On Friday, Reddit user hoopsterben posted in /r/FanTheories: “I believe the summer before the movie takes place, the boy and his ‘tethered’ also switched places … At the end, he has realized that his mother, at one point, has also switched bodies. She gives him a look almost like ‘I also know what you know’ and then he puts on his mask, as a symbol of the masks they will now wear for the rest of their lives.”
Whew! So the boy we knew to be Jason, like the woman we thought to be Adelaide, was a tethered the entire time. And if the swap took place during the previous summer, perhaps when Jason went missing after having locked himself in the vacation home’s closet, it would explain why he’s forgotten how to do a certain magic trick. Other variations on the theory suggest that Jason and Pluto swapped places years earlier, which would explain why Pluto scampers on all fours now and has reverted to a preverbal state. It’s a big claim, but consider …
The Evidence
The werewolf mask: If we read Adelaide’s final conspiratorial grin through the lens of Thriller, then the following shot, of Jason redonning the werewolf mask, can be seen in the same light: a tell that he’s also a “monster.”
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The tunnels: As a couple of people on Reddit have pointed out, when the family is at the beach, Jason isn’t building sand castles. He’s making sand tunnels, which — in addition to being a feat of sand-engineering — could link the character to the tethered’s subterranean home.
The closet: Jason likes to play by himself in the confined darkness of the closet. The Tyler twins think that’s weird, to which Zora responds: He has trouble focusing. This could all just mean he’s a troubled kid … But that’s what Adelaide’s parents thought about her, too.
The drawing: At home, Adelaide discovers a drawing made by Jason depicting his encounter with the tethered form of the Jeremiah 11:11 man — the man that Adelaide spotted on the beach before descending into the maze in ‘86, and whose original was being carted away in an ambulance when the family first arrived in Santa Cruz. The style of the drawing, featuring the backs of Jason’s and the Jeremiah 11:11 man’s heads, alarms Adelaide, because it takes on the same creepy perspective of Adelaide’s memory of encountering her mirror image.
However, it also hints that the somewhat reserved Jason, like his mother in the flashback at the child psychologist’s office, has been encouraged to draw to express himself. We later learn that this was the case for Adelaide because, after leaving the tethered underworld, she was still preverbal. The connection might hint at a similar situation for Jason and Pluto.
Mirroring: As has been pointed out on Reddit, Pluto is the only member of the tethered family who does not try to murder his double. In fact, when they’re sent to “play” together in the closet, they engage in a mirroring game, almost communicating through matching each other’s movements. (Kitty — who went to Stella Adler, after all — would be shook by the dramatic technique.) They appear to have a much closer bond than Zora or Gabe and their respective doubles, bringing them closer in our understanding to Red and Adelaide.
Control: We learn that in the world of Us, the tethered are a failed underground experiment, intended to be used to control the untethered population above ground. (Who is choreographing the control? That’s a question for another Reddit thread.) This suggests that the tethered have some element of power over their counterparts — we can even see how they anticipate, predict, and parry the untethered’s movements — and drives home the unsettling idea that above-ground humans might not have as much agency over our lives as we think we do. It would also explain how Jason is able to manipulate Pluto into walking backward into the fire: it’s both a reference to their mirror game, and a sign that Jason — the real tethered — can exert control over his untethered.
Speaking of fire: In a popular, related theory, fans claim that the lower half of Pluto’s face isn’t just covered in burns because he likes to play with matches. The theory supposes that every time newly swapped Jason tried and failed to do his “magic trick,” holding the trick lighter right up to his face, Pluto matched the movement and suffered burns because of it. Which is further proof that Pluto is the original, untethered son, controlled by Jason.
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The rabbit: Redditor Verdyz has suggested that if the rabbits are meant to symbolize the tethered in any way — a connection we understand from the opening credits onward — then the rabbit in Jason’s lap at the end of the movie suggests that he, too, is an escaped tethered.
The tuxedo shirt: This one is bonkers but I love it. From redditor CuriousPetie: “Everyone has been mentioning how Jason wears a tuxedo pajama top. In the friend’s house, he grabs a statue (reminding you of an Oscar). First, I thought this was Peele doing a self-insert, showing how he won an Oscar. Now, I interpret it as Peele showing us that Jason has been the best actor in this all along.”
“Kiss my anus!”: Kids say the darndest things … or the tethered mangle the darndest phrases?
The snapping: In an early scene, Jason has trouble snapping on the beat, and Adelaide “helps” him, although many have pointed out, in a Get Out–ishdetail, she herself is snapping closer to the first and third beats — an early sign that something isn’t quite right, and another hint at the characters’ special connection.
My Evidence
In addition to what’s been found on Reddit, I had to get in on the conspiracy. Here are some additional potential clues:
The Lost Boys: In the opening scene, young Adelaide’s mother notices that they’re filming something on the Santa Cruz boardwalk, which Jason Bailey pointed out to be the 1987 vampire film The Lost Boys. “Lost Boys,” you say? There are coincidences and then there are coincidences.
Jason Voorhees: Bailey noted Us’s many similarities to A Nightmare on Elm Street too, but there’s something to be said for the movie’s connections to Freddy Kruger’s one-time rival, the other patron slasher of the ‘80s and the youngest Wilson’s namesake, Jason. In the first Friday the 13th movie, the slasher is revealed to be Jason’s mother, Mrs. Voorhees, avenging her son’s death. In the many (many) sequels, Jason himself emerges from the murky depths to go on a killing spree, wearing a mask. The connection to this film’s Jason — who wears a mask and has close ties to his potentially nefarious mother — suggests something darker lurking beneath the surface.
Jaws: Jason wears a shirt emblazoned with the famous Jaws poster, which shows a monster hidden underneath an unsuspecting human.
The Verdict
Toward the end of the first act of Us, Adelaide confesses to Gabe that she’s scared, that since coming to Santa Cruz she’s noticed coincidences everywhere, enough to seem like they’re part of some larger scheme. Jordan Peele wants his viewers to be alert for clues and Easter eggs, to notice his deliberate planning. Whether this means these clues add up to Jason being a tethered, or Peele just wanting to sew paranoia, is up to you. As a friend who is firmly in the Pluto-is-Jason camp told me after seeing Us this weekend: “It’s Schrödinger’s rabbit.”
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I think the boy being switched explains a lot.
But the timeline being last summer or his mom not being aware I'm not yet sold on.
Tellin you these fools who shit on the flick think Jordan don’t know wtf he’s doin
Like get out wasn’t the shit
Imo, that theory doesn't make sense. It brings more questions than answers.
Just because you like something doesn't mean that everyone else has to like it as well. Sure he's sending an intriguing message with the movie, but if something doesn't connect with a viewer then their view of the movie will not be the same as yours, and that has nothing to do with whether they understood the what was going on or not. As I stated before, for me, too much humor killed serious moments, and dumb actions by the family took me out of the movie mentally. After certain shit occurred I was just watching to watch. It's an ok movie, nothing ground breaking. And for me it has nothing to do with the amount of trivial things in the movie, more so with the comedic choices and actions set by the characters for what was promoted to be a "horror" film.
Jason was a tether... He was saying all kinda weird comments and statements in the start of the movie that even the father said where have you been learning these weird lines lately... They consistently talk about how he's been acting weird since last yr... He struggles with fire... Hes off beat like his mother...his sister makes a comment about him disappearing for a brief minute last yr...he figures out they renegades against their own species at the end... He calm as s hit when the red suits arrive and he says it's "us"...meaning his kin aka red suits... His double also the only person that didn't have a pair of scissors
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The funniest thing about this movie is some of us predicted the movie viewing the trailer... Some of us said the red suits were really the good guys or that they wanted to take their life back cause the regular people stole it... Damn me and a few others called it on here...juss check out the trailer threads with us literally calling it b4 we seen it... Same thing with get out
Lol prob the realest post in here... Got 1 better if this was an all white cast and written / directed by a cac the comments would be much different as far as positivity.. The ending is what gave this movie juss a lil bit of props... To bad some of us predicted already
So everyone who said it’s good is either lying or blinded?
If “Friends” or “Seinfeld” had and “All Black” cast they would’ve lasted 3 episodes!
Millions of people enjoyed Blair with project, paranormal activity, sharknado, the hang over... Modern society is easily entertained... Please let's not go to what a lot of people like route... Most of the shitfest transformers made over a billion... Iron man 3 made a billion... God smhSo everyone who said it’s good is either lying or blinded?
If “Friends” or “Seinfeld” had and “All Black” cast they would’ve lasted 3 episodes!
In all fairness people thought Blair Witch was real, that’s why it was popular.
But I understand.
Muthafuckas need to be spoon fed information and plots.
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There had been a fire the previous summer and it's speculated that when he was "lost" for a bit then, that da swap had occurred. He wouldn't have to had gone to da house of mirrors because if you remember, there's thousands of tunnels underneath da US. Either way it goes, both families asides from Gabe were mixed breeds (tethered/human). The tethered controls their counterparts. How Jason deduced that he'd be able to get Pluto to walk into that fire was probably due to da mirror game they played in da closet mirroring each other's actions.
Movie is a basic revenge flick/revolt with a twist... The ending really saved this movie from being called outright ****... Expectations were high prob to high and unfortunately wasn't met... He gonna still make money, still gonna be given opportunities... This 1 when it will all be said and done if he puts out other good projects will be forgettable
The only tether with burns all over his mouth, only tether with a mask, only tether with no scissors... It's the reason why you know he was the real Jason under tether watch...he was different from all of them...which is why white mask Jason was really the human version