Warning: this article contains major spoilers.
There’s a species of crayfish that researchers found canclone itself indefinitely due to a mutation.
This is very subtle foreshadowing, hinting at the nature of the “tethered” being clones.
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However, hes definitely playing with the idea of realness, and how Hollywood sells authenticity.
The comedy club is called Eddies, and its joked that apostrophes are not allowed.
This represents our attempts to whitewash/erase from memory our historical appropriation/destruction of Native American culture.
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One tip is that anyone who istoocharming in theTwilight Zonedimension is bound to be satan.
Is he J.C, Jesus Christ, or a wheeler-and-a-dealer, a demon in the guise of someone holy?
Morgans character becomes increasingly sinister as the plot progresses.
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He vapes backstage as he gives Samir advice.
He puffs smoke from a fat cigar, rather than vaping, but what can you expect from 1959?
Red then uses handcuffs to immobilize Adelaide, just as what had been done to her as a child.
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Finally, Adelaide deals the killing blow to Red, strangling her to death with her own handcuffs.
But, as the film points out, this method of class warfare is ultimately at everyone’s expense.
TheKey & Peelesketch mock this notion ruthlessly, with a fight over who gets to help the white protagonist.
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Us - Character Weapons
Nothing inUsis done without intention.
It’s also a playful twist on the “glass ceiling.”
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Peele is a man who loves his film references.
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After Samir meets his tragic end in The Comedian, he disappears from the earth - but not entirely.
He shows up on large, photographic mural, depicting a multitude of people in black-and-white.
Or maybe ghosts, it could have been ghosts.
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Catherine Keener once again takes the prize for being a terrifying villain.
It comes up again when adult Adelaides husband points out the score for the game hes watching: 11:11.
Adelaides son also points out the time, 11:11.
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However, this twist is anything but.
It wasnt the painful appearance of his girlfriend that shocked Samir into a moral reckoning.
Samir, from the start of his final comedy set, had already decided to delete himself.
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This ties into the theme of the ignored, underclass of the tethered in the movie.
However theres another interesting aspects to scissors, in that they themselves depend on mirrored forces for function.
Jordan Peele, a movie nerd, seems to love tossing in homages to his film inspirations.
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The mask also serves as a metaphor to hiding from your identity.
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One question were left with after watchingUsis, why rabbits?
Like most things in the film, this choice was not by accident.
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Rabbits were one of the first animals ever cloned, tying into the lab-experiment clone plot of the film.
Perhaps this is meant to represent the tethered and the people on the surface.
Us - Adelaide Eats A Strawberry
Adelaide sits with her family in their vacation home.
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While they eat fish and chips, she spends about ten minutes eating a single strawberry.
Its also foreshadowing: Adelaide as a childwasone of the tethered.
She survived by eating raw rabbit meat.
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Now, replacement-Adelaide gets to savor the sweet fruits of the surface.
Shes also literally white-washing herself: erasing her history as an underprivileged minority.
At first it seems like a straightforward trap, one meant to murder the Wilson family in via arson.
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Jason appears to figure this out, and learns he can control Plutos movements.
He forces Pluto backwards, as he walks backwards himself.
Pluto backs into the flames of the burning car behind him, as Adelaide looks on in horror.
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The first to die is Jim Hudson(Stephen Root),the wealthy man who bought Chriss body.
He hunts deer (just as he hunts humans) as trophies.
Then goes Missy Armitage, the unsettling psychiatrist/hypnotist.
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Shes stabbed with a letter opener.
Her sins lie in her abuse of language & communication to hypnotize (indoctrinate) her victims.
Finally, Rose is shot by her Grandpa, and is left by Chris and his friend to die.
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Is he the original Jason?
What evidence is there of the switch?
Finally, Adelaide tries to teach Jason to snap his fingers in rhythm.
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Which version of Jason is real, then?
Peele makes us wonder whether thats a question that even matters.
The escalator Adelaide uses only goes down.
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Us - The Shadow Wilsons
Did we mention that this film is insanely detailed?
This blind, violent obedience may be seen by some to be brutish.
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Zora, the daughters name, means dawn in Slavic.
Their names are significant in that one cannot exist without the other.
Jasons name could be a reference to Jason Voorhees, but in Greek it originally meant healer.
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Pluto, Jasons tethered, is the Roman version of the Greek god of death, Hades.
Depending on which side you fall on, this could be a message of hope or of terror.
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