Apparently they used scissors because "scissors are 2 equal halves that are united for one single purpose, to divide." Also, I heard that get out was about 2 souls for 1 body but Us is about 2 bodies with 1 soul.

The movie is about social class. In order for the family above to have a good life, the family below must suffer. The family above are not bad people, but their very existence means suffering for others. Lupita Nyongo's character escaped that world, and now lives above, but in order to do that she had to make her other suffer. She is not a bad person, but she had to become complicit in the system in order to have the life she did. Check out Parasite, it's a better movie about the same topic (I liked US, I just liked Parasite more).

The original girl has a weird voice because the Tethered crushed her throat when she strangled her as a child

I’m actually glad they get to see how Luptia was ROBBED! She was top tier, god level and never broke character even between takes...Horror is just as good if not better than half movies that were nominated for a golden globe/Oscar/etc

I believe the tethered accomplished what the real people failed to do. Unite.

A lot people in the comments already pointed out the race and class themes of the movie. Essentially, living the good life comes at the expense of others. But there is another theme I haven’t seen anyone mention yet. Throughout the movie Peele warns about the dangers of suppressing traumatic histories. The funhouse young Adelaide visits at the beginning of the movie is decorated using caricaturized Native American imagery. Then in the present day we can see that at some point the offensive NA theme is superficially covered up using a wizard theme. On a character-level we also see a grown up Adelaide literally trying to suppress the memories of a traumatic childhood experience until they come knocking at her front door. As a whole I see it as commentary on how American society never seriously addresses its darker history and problems (Hands across America = pr stunt turned failure) and how this will eventually (if it hasn’t already) blow up in our faces.

Aaron: "i hate scurrying" Calvin: "you scurry all the time." Aaron: "i hate it when other people scurry"

Crew: What if it's not the little girl? Me: DAMNIT! STOP THE REVIEW!

I can't wait for you guys to react to Parasite and witness the masterpiece that it is

This was the first horror movie I ever watched in theaters. I went alone and the theater was mostly empty with nobody in the rows in front of me, and let me say, it was a VERY nerve-wracking experience. A bit funny too, since the people behind me laughed a bit when I reacted strongly to some of the scares.

Jeremiah 11:11 (ESV) "Therefore, thus says the Lord, 'Behold, I am bringing disaster upon them that cannot escape. Though they cry to me, I will not listen to them.'"

Everything you needed to know was in the first scene in the movie. Look at the vhs tapes, and the promo for “Hands across America” which was an awareness event for the poor and indigents in the 80’s.

My best way to explain the movie: Red (real addy) was 5 years old when this all happened and she basically went crazy underground. Instead of seeing the world she'd be looking at a blank wall or cave, depending where she was since the tunnels stretched all across the U.S. I believe that the house of mirrors was not the only exit but one of the few that Real Addy had no idea about and plus these tunnels were supposed to lead every part of the United States. The reason she did NOT leave right away or throughout her time down there is because like Red said when she explained everything "We Were Born Special" meaning they were the first 2 that had the experiment actually work. Addy (real Red) was able to control The real Addy and the other way around. It seems confusing but after watching it many times and really analyzing the movie it all comes together. Red did say "They created the tethered, so they could use them to control the ones above, like puppets. But they failed and they abandoned the tethered." The reason why the Tethered held hands is the obvious reason, because of Hands Across America. In the beginning Addy is watching a commercial for HAA along with also wearing a T-Shirt with the Logo on it and at the reveal ending she is STILL wearing that T-Shirt and she even kept it all those years as i guess inspiration (she hung it on a wall) All She knew from her real life was Hands Across America and she literally and mentally went crazy, everything she did was as revenge but she was also unstable. If you pay attention to how she talks and the way her eyes are big and wide and the way she says things you can already tell she isn't all there. The Tethered did not want revenge, they had no mind they had no idea what was even going on but they do share a soul and the real Red was a perfect example. She was a original tethered and didn't talk for so long until her parents taught her everything over again and couraged her to dance and become somebody. Real Addy planned this whole thing from the time she was 14 after her ballet dance, she did say it took years to plan, all this was about her. I think she in a way felt bad for them since she understood what they went through but also used them as a army so she could get her revenge. Like I said she was unstable and had a different way of thinking. Ever notice that she didn't truly care for the tethered, when Abraham died she didn't care, and when Pluto was dying in the fire she could care less, she was more focused on kidnapping Jason to lure Real Red underground. Everything that happened that night of the "Untethering" was a whole copy of what she went through that night when she was a kid. When she walked into the house of mirrors the power went off because of the storm, so Real Addy made sure the power was cut to scare Real Red. She was left handcuffed to the tethered beds until in a deleted scene shows the tethered parents coming to get her, she forces Real Red to handcuff herself with the same handcuffs to the table. The ending I feel like Real Addy knew in a way she was going to die but also thought she was going to actually win at the same time, she lured Real Red all the way in a fight to the same room she was left in all those years ago, she was supposed to kill Real Red but sadly was outsmarted and lost and she even died near the bed she was handcuffed to all those years ago. I tried explaning the best I could but I do think Jordan Peele could have gave us a little more detail so we weren't left with so many question but I guess that's what makes it a good movie, making you over think or having to see it more than once.

The only group of guys to make me feel insecure about my lack of beard growth lol

The scissors were ment to cut "the tie". When you talk about being tethered to someone, metaphorically that's what the scirrors are for, to untether themselves from their other half. How they go about it is basically the shadow's way of saying this is now mine I deserve to live a life of freedom and you deserve to live a life of oppression. On the other hand they also wanted thier own soul. They wanted to be thier own person, so to kill off the other half would permanently cut it. Now how did they get those scissors? Maybe they were created with them.🤷🏽‍♀️

The final fight between Lupita and "Red"is amazing. Love the music. The Tethered were using the "Hands Across America"shirt as the inspiration for their movement, standing together in protest to say that they ARE human. The movie itself is about social class. The rich try to keep the status quo however they can(we see how Lupita and the others kill the Tethered because they consider them inhuman), while the poor have to live with what little that have(the Tethered lived below, eating rabbit and seem to have awful lives, if Red's story of her Tethered husband and children is correct). When the rich abandon them to die(the scientists abandon the experiment), the poor rise up and take what they feel should be theirs(which is what "Red"inspired them to do.)

The reason why Reds voice was scratchy was because the doople ganger chocked Red in the “Find Yourself” maze.

They are holding hands because of the "Hands Across America" movement that is mentioned at the beginning.

This movie had a LOT of symbolisms that you have to sit and really think about what you were seeing. The movie had a great creepiness factor, but I felt it needed to ''cook'' a little bit more. Tho I think Aaron had a better grasp on what the movie was about.

Lupita Nyong'o Deserved an Oscar Nomination for this outstanding performance! She got snubbed heavily for this.

Ps this movie is so different after the first watch it's insane

Us is the kind of movie that gets richer the more times you watch it. It's layered and there are answers if you look deeper. Listen to the discussion going on after the credits have rolled between you guys. It gets this kind of response and it's awesome. Love the reaction and discussion on Us. Hopefully one day Hereditary gets a watch. This looks like the last supper btw lol

OH MY GOD RICK'S PERSONA REFERENCE KILLED ME

also, since i don't see anyone mentioning it, the actress who played adaline's mother is anna diop, aka kory/starfire from titans. she's unrecognizable in this film since they hide her face a lot, but you can tell if you listen closely to her voice.

Something I've noticed is sometimes instead of analyzing the emotional themes, they get hung up on plot logistics. Which its fine to talk about plot logistics, but the emotional and symbolic meaning of the film is equally important

Well firstly she was knocked out, and imagine being six years old and lost? When I was that age I cried when my mom went two isles over in the grocery store

Jordan Peele literally answered most of ya`ll`s questions when this film was coming out!

it is about class struggle and anxiety about social movility. the end is "unsatisfying" because we start by liking the protagonists but when they preserve their status quo we know what is the cost, although at the end we see that the opressed class can rise if united

The jumpsuit is an 80s reference to Michael Myers and the scissors to Freddy Krueger. And the 2 body's to Thriller.

There were moments when the replaced mom definitely acted odd. And a couple things you guys missed, like the Hands Across America commercial, which explains the reason why the tethered chose that symbolism. Anyway this whole commentary afterwards is hilarious 😂😂

This movie is one of my favorites, it’s heavily layered. I’ve watched it 13 times total, 4 times in the theater and each time I picked up on something different. It’s just a few images I couldn’t make out.

You have to watch Parasite!!

This is they type of movie where the more you watch it the better you understand. After every rewatch you learn something new.

I love that they played dexters blood theme when he’s in the bag on the boat xD

I hope they react to JoJo Rabbit some day.

I heard someone say that her voice was all hoarse like that because of the strangling as a kid damaging her throat. Also, please react to Hazbin Hotel. It is an awesome pilot and I think you guys would like it a lot.

It's like a rap song....all the catchphrases are understood on a surface level but the important bars (symbolism) flies over your head on the first listen (watch).

Damn, this movie really went over you guys' heads.

A lot of thought went into this movie. Jordan peele is so good at making horror mystery’s and stuff like that he really leaves you thinking. Kinda letting the audience figure it out for themselves.

Please react to JoJo Rabbit! Taika did such a good job, and all the actors are incredible.

22:55 for exposition, the tethers holding hands to form a vast line is the tethers expressing triumph over the people above. The holding hands across America was the Real Adelaide's idea after getting stuck underneath by her tether "Red". Real Adelaide's last memory of the above world is the "Hands across America" ad and therefore planned an uprising with the tethers and showing their win by holding hands across the country.

What just struck me is that Jeremiah the Prophet said in 11:11 verse: "Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them." Which means: In this verse, Jeremiah grimly tells the people that something terrible is headed their way as a result of sinning against God, and they won't be able to escape it no matter what they do.

Just rewatched your Get Out reaction today and asked myself when they'd watch Us! Funny timing

you guys need to watch scott pilgrim vs the world for a movie reaction!!!!!! you guys would love the movie

I love how everyone in the comments acting like they 100% nailed all the meaning and symbolism the first time they saw it; when in reality 99% of yall either googled for the meaning or watched it 17 times before understanding it.

IT WAS A REVENGE MISSION! The girl who was swapped with the tethered version formed this uprising as revenge for taking her life away. The film does make sense, hope everyone watches it enough times to understand it before rating it

This still gives me chills even when I’m watching it with others

1:32 “What happens at 11:11 and why is his name Jeremiah?” 😂😂😂

You guys are overthinking this. They are not worried about you understanding what is happening, they just want you to receive their message in an entertaining film.

Rick immediately guessed what happened 🖖 I hope you guys will react to PARASITE and JOJO RABBIT next!

It’s amazing how the actor actually did that voice and studied everything about the condition that is associated with this...

The Jeremiah passage is saying that there can only be one which is why the tethered kill the originals

no way they called the twist in the first 4 minutes

I needed to watch an explanation video to fully understand this movie, you guys probably should to

the thing with Us which i think is ultimately both sets it apart as a symbolic masterpiece and very tricky is that it's an incredibly ambitious project that touches on a lot of subjects and symbols and draws from a lot, and i mean a lot, of inspiration from wildly different source materials. one of the biggest errors, for me, is, even if it was meant as something symbolic, the initial and final explanation of what the tethered "are" and where they came from. it caused a lot of people to focus on the logistics of something like that (spoilers: it makes no sense) and then kind of hate the movie because it didn't add up and had "plot holes", and honestly just distracted from the many, many different layers of meaning the story has. us is meant to be both us literally, as in a collective of you's and me's, and U.S., which is why Red says "we're Americans" when asked what they are. the film draws on countless American pop-culture symbols, such as the hands across America project, which was meant to help those in need, which grossed 32 million dollars, of which only 17 million actually reached the people it was meant for, drawing a line of people which is meant as both uniting and separating, the Goonies tape they had, C.H.U.D, Michael Jackson's Thriller (which is why they had the one-hand gloves), the scissors which constantly switch the line between the mundane and the uncanny, an object uniting two halves and is used to separate, consumerism, capitalism, how Gabe has a Howard, a black Ivy League school that is both an aspiration and a reminder of segregation, how bunnies are both pets and used as experiments for lab testing, much like how the tethered are an governmental experiment, and so on and so forth. the idea of mirroring and doubling, with shadows and mirrors and doppelgangers, meant to show how we are complicit in silencing the less privileged, those who never see "the sky", how in order to succeed you must take someone else's place and how the Other is actually not at all different from you brought forth very literally because they literally US, wearing our faces, coming from the unused, unacknowledged underground, coming to kill us, and how our ignorance and our way of life makes us complicit in the suffering of others, ones that have no voice (which is why they can't speak), only living a terrible shadow of our life, and countless other meanings and layers of symbolism. honestly, this is just touching on a few references and themes that are in the movie, you can make an entire thesis out of it. all this to say, this movie is sensational, truly a work of art, but is incredibly densely packed with interwoven meanings that are wrapped in a basic, literal plot line which might be confusing to most. it definitely warrants a second and third watch, and some research. i applaud Jordan Peele for going out on a limb and making it, it's much more complicated than Get Out, but i understand why people like it less. it doesn't have a clear "bad guy" and no one wins at the end.

We know this movie exists in the same world as Get Out. Clones, rabbits, you are into something

I love the signs reference- Swing away Merrill

You guys deserve many more subscribers. 🇿🇦

can't wait for The Clone Versions of Blind Wave to React to "We"

OMG Yesss!!! I was hoping you react to this movie 😍😘 I love you guys 😄

I don't think the movie was going for explanation to give it realism but instead going for symbolism. Lots and lots of symbolism.

3:00 and the reaction ends

Santa Cruz!!!!!! They filmed a scene at my work. It was like 6 hrs for a 2 second scene.

Movie was filmed in my hometown Santa Cruz Ca . Lived there until I was 14 , and now the last 20 years I've lived in Walnut Creek & Layfette in the East Bay . This movie makes miss Santa Cruz .. love that area

Maybe this is building to something. Scissors are symmetrical. There is a Freddy Kruger, Jason, thriller vibe. Last pop culture references she saw.

Perfect video to watch during this time! Good movie choice 👍

This is a perfect example of a movie you need to see twice, and also watch breakdowns of it for hidden clues and meanings

Where to start with your problems with the movie... Think on the final image of the characters in the movie: "Jason puts on his mask." It's about America and how we reward mindless violence, and how terrifying it is to be a pacifist. As a race, we were reset in 2016 (30 years after Addy's incident), and when we go back instead of forward, moving on is impossible (one way to take Jeremiah 11:11). I'm not sure how you guys don't get the movie. Addy was taken when she was six, and she was the smartest among the Tethered and she only knew what she knew then. She knew Michael Jackson "Thriller" which explains the one glove. Hands Across America was happening when she was taken, and it was an abject failure on the surface. When the Tethered did it, it was hugely successful. What purpose did it serve? Absolutely none! Holding hands isn't going to solve world hunger. Addy didn't know that when she was taken, but it was a demonstration she sort of understood. The scissors are an object that has a simultaneously mundane and terrifying function, separating. They also require two equal parts to work. The inception of the Tethered was due to the government's fear of its own citizens. When the experiment failed, they didn't kill the Tethered but just got up and left, thinking they'd be harmless, representing a stupid mistake from our government. Everyone has a Tethered, and it's all about class. You have to take the satire and build from it rather than fight it. The movie does argue that fate is binary, single-lined rather than has multiple possibilities. Watch it again and think on opposites, fake versus real, violent versus pacifist, light versus dark, etc. Another thing is that the movie isn't all subtext. If you just take the plot by itself as a home invasion/slasher, it works just as well if not better than many I've watched. If you want to go into the rabbit hole (!), you can find a wealth of information Peele was wishing to communicate on the single subject of violence and stupidity in America.

You have to listen to the speech she made in the living room. They were an abandoned experiment.

Amazing video, also Yess 😁😁😁 I'm so glad Rick gets it @ 9:50, I always saw US as a big "metaphor movie" with themes orbiting around self acceptance and Jungian Psychology. Especially with the term Red refers to herself as "Shadow" and how they are "tethered" Because in Jungian Psychology, People can be identified by two parts the "Persona" which is the parts of our self's that we Express and the Shadow the part of our self's that we burry, cant, and choose not to Acknowledge. To me this can be seen in the character Zora she can be seen actually caring for her brother when he is insulted, and her dislike for running track can be seen early on. And in her shadow is the reverse, a girl who is a Psychopath and lacks impathy but is a track superstar. Two more tie ins into this thought process is Pluto and Jason I believe they have such a better connection to one another, is because he accepted his shadow and thus in such a Manor become one with it, unlike his sister who denied her running skills he always sought to make fire with that lighter and never denied that part of himself. And then there's the underground tunnels, Carl Jung discussed that the vast majority of people share a "Collective Unconscious" which are essentially similar thoughts and desires that are within all of us, such as primal natures and desires of what we don't have. And these thoughts could be represented as the tethered, mainly because In this study of Psychology it's believed the more one keeps these feeling hidden and kept away they will eventually rise to the top and want to be seen as the tethered do. There are way more things, like the movie's promotion poster of the mask and what's beneath the mask. Maybe I'm finding meaning in nothing, but I personally believe that Jordan Peele used inspiration from this area of Psychology, and if so he did amazingly

wow, need to see it again ,the social class theme , the haves and have nots, the sybolism ,certainly gets you thinking.

This movie went way over y’all’s heads, lol

11:26, nice touch adding the Dexter music.

This movie's phenomenal. Each watch I spend more time scanning the screen for new subtleties

I still waiting a sequel

At first i thought underground mom voice was weird but makes sense when you find out little girl got choked by being stronger than normal human

i literally just watched this for the first time last night. what a coincidence

The way the Tethered became free was by eating the rabbits, I think. The soulless didn't need food or nourishment, but the real Adelaide did. Freeing the rabbits broke the Tether, that's why the rabbits are all loose in the ending. Once free of the tether, they no longer had to copy their 'real' bodies. The boy did because he enjoyed the game, as illustrated in the closet scene. (Also, the rabbits are around as they are a common testing animal) We can assume that when the clone (Red) swapped with Adelaide, Red became the Soul body and Adelaide became the soulless husk. By stealing Adelaide's voice (choking her), Red takes Adelaide's soul. Once swapped, Red learned dance, which is why Adelaide said "I learned to dance from you". The hands across America thing was a key part of Adelaide's life, we see that on the Tv and on the yellow shirt she wore under her thriller one, and so the Tethered did so at Adelaide's direction. They also dressed with the one glove (Thriller esque, like Adelaide's shirt), and used scissors as scissors are two halves united to divide. There are some plot holes, like how the shears and suits were made, but I overlooked them in service to the movie. The experiment explanation led many to conclude the whole movie is a scifi one, and thus should have perfect logic and science. But Us isn't that, it's a thriller with supernatural elements and a pinch of early scifi themes (class and division). Besides, we don't even know if Adelaide's explanation is even correct. It could be another dimension, it could be an act of God, but it is assumed to be a government program. I personally am fine not knowing and leaving the questions at "it's supernatural" because it is scientifically impossible to have a matching child unless the government was still cloning, which we know they weren't. I can overlook such questions as "who did the surgery on Adelaide after her c section" and "what do the rabbits eat" because the greater story doesn't need those explanations in order to be a great story.

SHANE FARLEY OMG. The big 5. The glorious 5. The furious 5. Greek gods in human form. The OGs and Rick, love it. Beautiful. Amazing. Perfection. Amazeballs. USA USA USA USA!

I'll be honest, I've watched this movie a few times, and I've completely given up on pinpointing the deeper messages it contains. I get the general ideas, about government control, "otherness" and humanity's dual nature, but I couldn't write a coherent essay on its meanings. That being said, I fucking love this movie. Just really good writing, acting, humor, suspense, cinematography and music all wrapped up in a confusing but intriguing plot.

LMAO the Dexter music @11:25. Great edit.

I implore you guys to watch the extras on DVD jordan Peele has all the answers to an incredible amount of symbolism and explanation to everything you guys were questioning

11:24 i still come back to this just to realize, Dexter's ost is played here as the boat and a body in a bag signifies Dexter's way of dumping bodies

Please react to the movies “Vanilla Sky” and “Blade Runner 2049”

this film was terrifying in imax. one of the best movie experiences for me

The holding hands was the hands across America

3:52 the second viewing of this film is so fun - that MIRRORED SHOT TO THE ENDING SHOT ARE YOU KIDDING ME

I thought that all of the symbolism and metaphors the movie was going for were very well done, but its just metaphor. There's no actual plot underneath. The whole underground falls apart immediately if you try and look at it literally Astronaut #1: wait....its all metaphors? Astronaut #2: always has been

Watch filmtheory, he explains alot of what was confusing you.

I think this would have worked better as a supernatural story. Make it a shadow dimension or literal doppelgängers.

11:26 loving the dexter theme music edit 😂😂

I’m surprised you guys haven’t done The Raid 2 yet

27 minutes in and y'all are too literal lol

Can you react to 1917 the war film

Lol I love how they figured it out in the very beginning

When I watched this film in the theatre I got a lot of creeps and at the end it made me speechless! A great film!

Swing away, Merrill------love the reference!

It wasn’t that hard to understand. How does it go over everyone’s head on a movie review channel😂😂

they formed a line because of the hands across america commercial thing, no? and they wore red because the people in the logo are red?? i dunno...

THE DEXTER MUSIC LMAO