Us' Adelaide/Red Twist Ending Explained However, the final moments of Us reveal something much darker: the Tether attacked Adelaide, chained her up in the tunnels, took her clothes, and returned to her parents, taking on a life above land.
Summary. The Tethered in Jordan Peele's "Us" are the result of a failed government cloning experiment, meant to control the above-ground population. The Tethered are tied to their above-ground counterparts and live in underground tunnels, forced to mimic their counterparts' lives.
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.
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.
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.
chiefly British, informal. : a state in which one is not able to deal with a problem, difficult situation, etc., any longer. I've been dealing with their lies for too long. I'm at the end of my tether.
Either as part of the fault or a result of their discarding, the Tethered became the puppets and were forced to live out a shadow existence, mimicking their original constantly in the drab tunnels. Starved of sunlight and living off rabbits, they become warped, mute versions of their original.
“The voice for Red was inspired by a condition known as spasmodic dysphonia, and it's a condition that comes about from trauma,” she tells PEOPLE. “It's sometimes emotional, sometimes physical, sometimes inexplicable, where your vocal chords involuntarily spasm and create this irregular flow of air.
Warning: Spoilers for the film Us. “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.
But there's one more subtle twist at the end of the movie that complicates it further. Jason looks at Adelaide in the car—who we now know is a Tethered—and some sort of acknowledgement passes between them. This seems like an indication that Jason seemed to realize that his mother was actually one of the Tethered.
Red holding scissors close to her all the time is a symbol of severing parts of life, as well as the connection between the Tethered and their originals. Red was the first one to break free from the connection with her double above ground, so it makes sense that scissors became her and the Tethered's symbol of freedom.
The Tethered in Jordan Peele's "Us" are the result of a failed government cloning experiment, meant to control the above-ground population. The Tethered are tied to their above-ground counterparts and live in underground tunnels, forced to mimic their counterparts' lives.
But Adelaide doesn't seem to know that she's the kidnapper who originally grew up Tethered — that is, until the final moments of Red's life. In the film's climax, Adelaide has fatally wounded Red; Red uses her final moments to do something unexpected: She whistles.
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.
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.
In a twisted turn of events, Jordan Peele's record-breaking new horror movie Us did not draw inspiration from a brutal true crime case or even a mysterious urban legend, but rather from an 80s charity event.
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.
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.
Often, rabbits symbolize rebirth, which fits with the intentions of the Tethered to start a new chapter living on the surface. But, connecting with Peele's greater theme of duality, rabbits are often used as test subjects, which represents the lives of these Tethered as an abandoned experiment.
As revealed in Us's big twist, the reason Red's voice sounds so creepy is that she was strangled as a child. Early in the movie, a young Adelaide Wilson (the adult version of whom serves as the main protagonist) sees her doppelgänger, Red, in a theme park funhouse, emerging traumatized and unable to speak.
Adelaide Thomas, also known as Red, is the real counterpart of Adelaide Wilson as well as the somewhat main antagonist and leader of The Tethered in and out of her group in the 2019 film 'Us'.
However, the twist at the end of the movie also explains why Adelaide, who did grow up with spoken language, would talk that way: Red injures her throat when she drags her underground, which may have permanently damaged her vocal chords.
But before he could be found, he was replaced by Pluto (although this doesn't really account for Pluto acting like an animal). There is some compelling evidence, including why Jason is building tunnels instead of castles at the beach, and the boys' interaction inside a closet when the Tethered first arrive.
There are jump scares, plus many attacks and killings with blood and gore. Characters use blunt objects on doppelgangers, and doppelgangers slice and stab people with sharp scissors. A woman is handcuffed, and children are sometimes in peril.
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.
