The frisbee represents a mobile thing that is free to fly around, while the dot where it lands is stagnant and unmoving. This is a perfect parallel to the tethered and those who walk free. In Us, almost everything, from siblings, to scissors, the time, mirrored images, and more addresses the notion of duality.
While Red's (Adelaide's) voice in Us is a result of strangulation, Lupita Nyong'o based the character's voice on a neurological condition called Spasmodic Dysphonia, citing environmental attorney (and notable SD sufferer) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as her main inspiration.
While Us isn't as directly targeted as Get Out, there's no avoiding what its core discussion is: Us is about fear of "the other" when "the other" is literally just us. The Tethered are the embodiment of outsiders that society was told to resent by the people who created them.
The tune she's whistling is “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” — the last song she had stuck in her head before she was kidnapped. (The song also invokes the slaves' ascent to freedom by “crawling up” the water spout, i.e. the sewers, to their escape.)
However, the rabbits hold a deeper meaning too. Rabbits commonly symbolize rebirth in human culture as explained by their usage around Easter to signify the rebirth of Jesus Christ. In the case of Us, the rabbits symbolize the rebirth of the Tethered who are now rising up to take their place in society.
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Why did the tethered hold hands?
But aboveground, the many Tethers have joined hands together in a mirror of Hands Across America, the 1986 event meant to raise money and awareness of hunger, which stretched a 6.5 million-person chain (almost all the way) across the Lower 48.
Adelaide was really Red all along. She shares a glance with her son with him seemingly understanding who his mother actually is. After all, he saw the brutal, tether-like behavior she displayed underground.
Adelaide is not a tethered, the ending is just her coping with what happened and a play on how oppressors like to tell themselves they are the victims. They are just made up memories as a coping mechanism. Which is why she is shown making a weird smile as an 8 year old in the made up memory and also in the car.
In the process, some Tethered are killed but in the final shot of Us, it's revealed that many survived the night and joined hands to create a human chain that runs for quite some distance - perhaps even from coast to coast.
The iconic handwear debuted during a 1983 television performance of "Billy Jean" for Motown's 25th anniversary celebration. The lone white glove would become synonymous with Jackson throughout his career — and ultimately, provide a cryptic image for the Tethered to incorporate during their exodus from the underworld.
Why does Jason wear a mask in us? Pluto wears a mask to cover up the burns of the accident. This would explain why Jason is often wearing a mask throughout the film. Pluto's death is by self-immolation, which reinforces this as well.
In Us, Jeremiah 11:11 reads as, "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." Narratively this is represented through Adelaide's duplicate, Red, who represents the evil she and the other ...
“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. Careful planning and preparation have lead to this day and this very moment where she faces the villain of her heroic tale.
In the movie "Us," the Tethered use scissors as their main weapons, symbolizing the severing of parts of life and the connection between the Tethered and their originals.
Maybe the tether[ed] also feels that way and was about to pull a Face Off with those scissors.” It's worth noting that as Kitty's doppelgänger, Dahlia would have had to endure a bastardized – and presumably quite horrific – reflection of the plastic surgery procedures Kitty had undergone; thus she starts to cut her ...
So, rather than having been told about his mothers identity or been switched with a Tethered himself, it seems that Jason is smart enough to just see through all of that. According to Peele's explanation, Jason is simply picking up on the subtleties that give away his mother's true identity.
Jason's Tethered counterpart, Pluto, is first seen wearing a leather mask, which he later removes to reveal that the lower part of his face is severely scarred from burns. It is unclear exactly how or why this happened to Pluto.
We find out just before that Red is actually the real Adelaide who was swapped decades years ago — a story that Jason might have heard too. They return to the above world, where Adelaide drives her family to safety, and Jason gives her a suspicious look before he puts on his mask.
They offer some more insight into the psychology of the Tethered, who either share or imitate the characteristics of their aboveground counterparts. Kitty Tyler is insecure, so her doppelgänger cuts her own face in an imitation of plastic surgery.
Jason learns he can control Pluto but this could be because both are half tethered or Jason realizing for the first time the connection goes both ways. Pluto is also the only family member and only tethered that does not have a pair of scissors.
As of yet, there are no concrete plans for an Us sequel. Though unanswered questions and murky thematic elements seem to be an integral part of Peele's style of filmmaking, he has suggested that the Us universe is rich enough to support another story.
This reveal is quite good, especially since the seed is planted at the very start of the film, but it can be a little confusing. As it turns out, Red is actually the original non-Tethered Adelaide, and the Adelaide we've been following the entire movie, and thought was the hero, is actually the Tether.
Since the clones are purposefully tied to their above-ground counterparts — they share a soul, so to speak — the Tethered are forever linked to their originals. Forced to mindlessly mimic their counterparts, the Tethered live empty lives.
Josh Tyler is the father in the Tyler family, with him being killed at the same time as his two daughters. Much like Lindsey's death, Josh is killed on-screen while the camera is outside the house and in a wide shot, making his killing less impactful.
