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The Ending of “Us” (2019) Explained!


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Jordan peels follow-up to 2017 s get-out
centers on the Wilson family who takes a
trip to their vacation home in Santa
Cruz Beach about 30 years earlier
Adelaide the family’s matriarch
confronted a little girl who looked
exactly like her in a Hall of Mirrors
the ordeal apparently left Adelaide
speechless but she eventually learned to
express herself through dance overtime
Adelaide settled into a normal life with
her husband and two children leaving the
past behind as she revisits the root of
her childhood trauma however Adelaide
can’t shake the feeling that something
wicked is coming since we’ve been here
they’ve been happening more and more I
think she’s getting closer Adelaide’s
initial instincts were correct as her
home is invaded one night by four
doppelgangers who mirror the Wilson
family Adelaide’s look-alike who’s known
as red is the only member of her family
with the ability to speak although she
sounds as if she nearly had the life
choked out of her in her spine-chilling
voice Wren explains that both families
are tethered together whereas the
Wilsons have lived a privileged life of
luxury though red and her family have
endured nothing but misery living in
Adelaide shadow red has struggled to
control her own destiny tired of being
puppets the tethered plan to cut
themselves off from the Wilsons
with deadly scissors the Wilsons managed
to get away but as a night
today it becomes clear that they aren’t
the only ones being haunted by the
tethered multiplying like rabbits
doppelgangers start popping up
everywhere killing their counterparts
over time a tethered start to hold hands
forming a human chain that stretches
across the land this alludes to the
Films opening scene in which a young
Adelaide watched a commercial for Hands
Across America taking place on May 25th
1986 this campaign saw six and a half
million Americans join hands throughout
the country ranging from New York to
Long Beach California to aid the
homeless numerous participants gave $10
to charity in exchange for a reserved
spot and a t-shirt
in the first act of US Adelaide’s son
Jason encounters a homeless man standing
alone on the beach it turns out this man
was part of the tethered and by the
film’s conclusion he’s linked alongside
countless others taking a stand during
the climax read snatches Jason leading
Adelaide back to the house of mirrors
while searching for her son had a late
stumbles upon a secret passageway that
takes her to an underground channel of
tunnels where the tethered have been
hiding it’s revealed that the tethered
were part of a government project to
clone people although scientists managed
to recreate people in their physical
images they couldn’t replicate their
personalities once the experiment ended
the tethered were abandoned in the
tunnels which stretch across the United
States
Adelaide ultimately manages to kill read
find Jason and reunite with her family
although the tethered are still lining
up it appears the Wilsons have overcome
their evil counterparts as they drive
off into the sunset the final minutes
change everything however as Adelaide
begins to remember something that she’s
seemingly repressed can’t believe you
kept all this inside for so long when
Adelaide first went to the house of
mirrors years ago her clone knocked her
out
chained her up and took her place on the
surface Adelaide was actually a clone
this entire time and red was the
original Adelaide it’s like The Parent
Trap meets the mole people this
mind-blowing twist puts several plot
points into perspective the reason
Adelaide wasn’t able to speak as a child
wasn’t because she was traumatized but
because the tethered lack the ability to
speak over time the imposter
picked up on proper English while also
gaining confidence by learning to dance
this parallels what happens to the real
Adelaide in the underground society the
impostor tries to silence the real
Adelaide by strangling her
which explains why she sounds as if her
vocal cords were permanently damaged as
the only one in the underground tunnels
who can speak the real Adelaide gave the
tethered a voice inspired by Hands
Across America she encouraged the
tethered to rise up against their
counterparts organizing a movement they
finally took to the surface drawing
attention to the forsaken members of
society there are several visual motifs
that hint at Adelaide and Red’s true
nature for starters there’s the color
red before entering the house of mirrors
the real Adelaide is seen eating a red
candy apple at the beach a red frisbee
lands on a towel covering one of its
blue polka dots then when the tethered
emerge they’re all draped in red prison
jumpsuits this color indicates that red
was always the real Adelaide and that
she’s returned to reclaim the life that
was stolen from her jeremiah 11:11 also
plays a key role appearing on a homeless
person sign at the carnival where
Adelaide got lost
years later the tethered began their
attack on the surface around 11:00 11:00
p.m. can I help you this is notably the
only time of day with four identical
numbers just as the Wilsons encounter
four identical strangers even more
significant Jeremiah 11:11 is a Bible
verse which reads in the New Living
Translation therefore this is what the
Lord says I am going to bring calamity
upon them and they will not escape
though they beg for mercy I will not
listen to their cries Adelaide in red
share a connection that’s practically
biblical as one got to live a heavenly
life in the Sun while the other was
forsaken to the dark underworld to live
amongst empty soulless beings when they
finally reunite their inner demons are
Adelaide and red aren’t the only ones
with an unusual connection young Jason
has always been the odd one out in his
family hiding in dark closets and always
wearing a mask during the climax
Jason’s devious doppelganger plans to
kill the Wilson family by setting their
car ablaze in an unexpected turn of
events though the doppelganger begins to
mimic Jason’s actions as Jason backs up
his doppelganger walks into a fire and
burns to death when the Wilsons drive
off to safety
Jason sends his mother a skeptical look
although no words are spoken it’s highly
suggested that Jason knows what his
mother is if his mother is a clone
though what exactly does that make Jason
and his sister the ending leaves us with
a few other lingering questions who is
in charge of the government cloning
experiment what will the tether do now
that their leader is dead can the
Wilsons ever return to normalcy who are
the true puppet masters in the grand
scheme of things for that matter who are
the true villains is it possible that
there’s a monster lurking inside all of
us perhaps the only way to find the
answers is to look in a mirror and try
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