Jason wasn't a double
He's just tethered and original mixed so he shares the traits
He knows his mom is the tethered at the end.
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Jason wasn't a double
He's just tethered and original mixed so he shares the traits
He knows his mom is the tethered at the end.
Nah not a double
Just more of the tethered gene than his sister
She had a c section with him
Same place he got the mask
Exactly. Same thing I said on the previous page.
You mean the piece of cloth with eye holes? Seems like you didn't really read my original comment by the responses
They had supplies. Red was cutting up paper. Where would she have gotten that from? Where did they get the chalk to draw on the board?
Naw i don't think the son was a swap. He gave her that look at the end cuz he heard her make that noise they make when she killed herself. He gave her that look cuz he know she a clone
He does know.
I ain't readin' the spoilers but it looks like Jordan Peele is turning into a profitable director.
For comparison's sake, Black Panther was explained by the white character Everett Ross.
Sometimes, it's necessary for the less intelligent members of society, that a story and certain details are explained even though most of us are smart enough to get it.
You didn't enjoy the movie. I understand. You have that right. I'm not here to shame you or to talk bad about you because you didn't like the movie. I don't know if you were trying to read more into it or you thought the plot of the movie was too simplistic and desired more. That's alright.
Most of the rest of us either enjoyed it, really enjoyed it, or found a deeper meaning that lead to some interesting conversation.
Lupita's husband was the straight guy. He ended up being a sheep at a table of wolves. Lupita was a wolf married to a sheep, but in the beginning she was pretending to be a sheep herself, so their pair was perfect.
However, when the other wolves arrived and she turned into a wolf that she was hiding from the rest of her family and yanked the reigns from him.
I didn't see any glaring bad acting moments except maybe a couple of the expressions on little boy's face when he was supposed to be scared, but it wasn't blatant or often. He's 9. I love him a pass
My reasoning to suggest Jason was switched at some point. Not all concrete but interesting.
I believe both the mother and Jason had to ability to control their humans. That would explain why young Adelaide wandered off specifically to where clone Adelaide was and took her.
- On the beach near the white girl twins he tells them he building tunnels instead of sand castles.
- When he comes from the bathroom on the beach he doesn't seem phased by the bloody hand man standing/waiting for others. Maybe because he knows the plan.
- In the car on the way to vacation, him and the mother are off beat when snapping their fingers to the music.
- When the father asked him for the bat, he seemed to not know what it was.
- The surface mother had a stronger bond to Jason than the daughter. ex, At bedtime she holds his hand and states she will always protect him. Goes nuts when we think he's lost on the beach but she knows he is possibly being taken or whatever she's afraid is happening to her.
- If I'm not mistaken, Jason only kills when he is protecting his mother from being killed.
- Part of the government experiment was for the Reds to be able to control the surface people but it failed. However Jason was able to control Red Jason by moving him into the fire. I'm assuming surface Jason was the 'clone' and learned that part of the experiment and was able to do it to Red Jason.
- He didn't know how to do the magic trick from the year before.
- Red Jasons mouth curiously being burned, so he can not speak.
- Overall the boy was just weird.
I believe both the mother and Jason had to ability to control their humans. That would explain why young Adelaide wandered off specifically to where clone Adelaide was and took her.
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Wasn't a fan and I kept trying to be. I thought the motivation for the "tethered" Lupita was incorrect. If she had been swapped by an actual tethered you really aren't trying to bring "your" people to the surface to take over.
How are people in an orphaned secret experiment separated by an escalator?!?!?
Who is tethered to whom? We see that the tethered imitate their originals, so how was the tethered Lupita living life? She should have been doing whatever the original was doing. When the tethered Bill Duke was trying to do ANYTHING with the original Lupita that disconnect should have prevented any relationship/family.
How are there this many of the tethered kept in this underground area.
Get Out was a much better movie, I think if he didn't have that twist at the end he would have a better movie
How are people in an orphaned secret experiment separated by an escalator?!?!?
Who is tethered to whom? We see that the tethered imitate their originals, so how was the tethered Lupita living life? She should have been doing whatever the original was doing. When the tethered Bill Duke was trying to do ANYTHING with the original Lupita that disconnect should have prevented any relationship/family.
How are there this many of the tethered kept in this underground area.
Get Out was a much better movie, I think if he didn't have that twist at the end he would have a better movie
I like Us but the more you think about it.....it wasn’t explained as well as Get Out was. I think it’s one of those movies you don’t think too hard about which Get Out was the complete opposite.
So everyone has to like what you like? If not they are crabs in a barrel?
Winston
she brought them to the top to get revenge for being swapped and having to endure the pain she went thru. she was also freeing them from being held captive underground.
the escalator only goes down. But when the power went out, they were able to go up. This will need further explanation from Peele, because there are some issues surrounding this theory, but then again, i could be wrong about this.
when she was uptop she became her own person. but her tethered essentially took her place below.
it's not just in this underground area. The message in the beginning said something about all underground tunnels being sort of connected.
But she NEVER explained that. Wouldn't that be the first thing you said when you see the person that took your life?
Dawg, an ESCALATOR!!!!??? Let me keep you in some shytty basement with a escalator going in the wrong direction as your only escape. How long are you gonna be captive?
Then the tethering needs to be explained because who controls who? Just cause you're up top that means you're in the drivers seat? You're sharing a soul they went into no other explanation of who controls and why. That's just shytty story-telling.
How do messages get from one underground to another to unify. Resources for the Red suits and gold shears.
I had JUST watched Black Lighting when I made this post. Also I on the low started a rumor amongst my family that Winston is actually Bill Dukes son. Looks like I am believing my own lie.
it was, when they were all face to face, red explained the pain she went thru giving birth, etc, and all the shit she had to go thru because of what Ale was doing up top.
they don't have that capacity. Didn't you see some of them walking into walls.
who ever is on top, controls. Like Jason was able to control his tether.
i can't answer that.
And I get that, but there wasn't this; "BYTCH YOU STOLE MY LIFE!!!!" moment. I couldn't give ANY fcuks about the rest of the tethered, I'm an original and this bytch stole my life. The ending just seemed hammered into the rest of the story.
But WHAT makes who's in control? Upstairs, Downstairs this 9 year old shouldn't have been able to control his tethered so easily when BOTH are above ground, and nobody else could (apparently Winston Duke could as well when he was adjusting his glasses)
So then why is it the Original Lupita never tried to control the tethered Lupita
I know I sound like I hated the movie, but I thought it was well acted and good direction. Is it better than Get Out? Does it deserve the praise that it is getting? Shyt like this makes me feel like I am being pandered too. Critics give it 100%, but the general public have these valid ?uestions about plot holes in the movie.
But I would see it again and I would urge others to see it. Not for love of the director or any actor (even though Lupita Nyongo WILL be mine someday) But we don't get the luxury of making a bad movie. Shyt don't make money and they won't let Jordan Peele or the next Jordan Peele make another movie. Ridley Scott has bombed that Alien franchise to hell and he'll make three more if they'd let him.
Brb
I agree with the folks that say the boy is a clone.
1. He didn't know where the bat was kept.
2. He couldn't do the magic trick.
3. He was weird and without rhythm.
4. He was building sand tunnels instead of castles.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the Clone Lupita replaced the injured son with the healthy replica from below which made the surface boy devolve so much.
At the locker the boy knew she wasn't he mama thus Lupita kept urging the boy to look at her without exposition. She was the only mama he had. he was the only son she had. little man just had to deal with it.
upstairs is in control. why? because the people downstairs are clones of the above. Lupita was above so long that she adapted and her clone (the real one) remained as is (i.e. she could talk).
no one knew they could be controlled until Jasons double showed him. Why he didn't tell anyone, i don't know.
If Jason was a double then he would know that he was being controlled down below but now he is free since he is above and he is in control.
Adelaide told the unburnt Jason, no, when he took control of the Red Jason. She was in distress as he walked into the fire.
Reason why we got so many unanswered questions is because the movie pick and chose when it wanted to explain things though.
This is my question (to the thread as a whole too) -- I dug the movie -- but if it didn't have the pedigree of Jordan Peele, Lupita and Winston Duke, would we be investing all this thought into finding the hidden meaning or would we brush it off as another avant-garde type of film? Because there was a film that came out about 5 years ago with a similar conceit called IT Follows that critics loved and was just as subversive, but came and went with audiences.
Now I'm not saying they're the same film, and there's no right or wrong answer when it comes to art, but I've seen films like Us get ignored before and the responses got me wondering if anyone else's name were on it would we really be alright with so many unanswered questions?
