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Us (movie) Analysis/Theory pt 1 :

MEGA SPOILER ALERT!

Holy mackerel. I watched the movie Us finally, with a notebook and index cards to analyze everything I saw. Below I have amalgamated that information & I hope it satisfies you.

🎞 We all perceive the film differently, so this is my personal perception + analyses of symbolism. All themes play into the movie universe. At the end I will try and communicate what Jordan Peele may be trying to say externally for my “conspiracy” (truth) theorist.

🚨 Under constant edit.

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DUALITY is basically THE theme of the movie. Everything has a double meaning & can be tied to something else. Even the dialogue features mention of double and triple. I’m going to name the ones with 3 as well.

•Above world & the underground - 2 worlds

•Humans & their Clones - Double People

• 11:11 - Double 1’s & palindromic ** (I’m going to do a whole section on 11)

•I got 5 on it - Means going half for some dank.

•Black flag shirt in 1986 & On twin in present day

•Hands across America happened during the Gemini season. The zodiac representing twins.

•Mirrors & reflections everywhere

•2 large ambulances with the number 2 on them - One carrying life / The other carrying death

*3rd ambulance was between two those worlds.

•Lots of Black & white color placement

*Red is a third color seen a lot

•Generator & Back up generator - Power

•Jason wearing a Mask

•Big spider & Little spider on coffee table

•The white girl twins

*They say the same things all the way to triple jinx

•The story of the princess and her shadow

• Night & Day / Sun & Storm

•Jason & Pluto’s hand gestures are opposite of each other as they are walking backwards.

•The painting on the wall has a little girl inside of a deranged looking older woman

*Theres also a painting with 3 people in it

•Jason’s drawing is an over the shoulder drawing, which means 2 people in the picture

•The shadows on the beach create the illusion of a shadow family.

•The little girls hairballs are different colors in the therapy office

•The meaning of Hands Across America changes

•• One I thought of: Lighthouses are suppose to guide you to safety, but it did the opposite for young Adelaide.

Plot necessary Easter Eggs & Prop placement

•A shirt can be seen with “Fragile” on it

Nods to the underground

•A fact at the beginning of the movie brings up the underground and abandoned mine shafts.

•The game of Whack-A-Mole at the carnival - The game of keeping things underground.

•When they first arrive to the summer home, Adelaide is laying down on the couch. We see a spider on the coffee table with a little spider coming from under it.

•Jason digging tunnels at the beach

Classic movies & games

The movies are seen in the beginning next to the old style TV.

•C.H.U.D - An old movie, the title means “Cannibal human underground dwellers” I believe. Speaks for itself.

•The Man With Two Brains - Movie about a man who has a connection with a brain in a jar (Lol that is very vague, pls just search it.)

•The Goonies - Movie about kids going underground

•The Lost Boys is being filmed at the carnival during 1986. The title speaks for itself.

•Guess Who, Magic, and Candyland can be seen in the closet with Jason & Pluto

•Rock, paper, scissors is seen being played multiple times. Scissors is an obvious reference to the scissors, but I haven’t deciphered the others.

•Jason is wearing a Jaws shirt, a movie about a creature coming from below aaaaalso at a beach.

•Jason’s name is like Jason Voorheis who also wears a mask.

•The name of the House of mirrors goes from “Shaman’s quest” to “Merlin’s forest”

Elements

I’m glad I’ve seen other people notice this, but the elements, as there are 4 primary ones, are depicted within the 4 characters. I always look for this in movies with 4 main people.

Adelaide is Earth - Earth represents foundation. She was taken from her home & put in a completely opposite one. She has seen above & below ground. Values her family.

Gabe is Water - Loves his boat, wants to go to beach, kills his quarry on the pier.

Jason is Fire - Loves the magic trick, was in a fire previously. His double is a pyromaniac. The double also sits directly in front of the fire.

Zora is Wind - Is a runner & quick thinker. Her double is extremely fast.

Patterns & Colors

White - Adelaide is wearing white for most of the movie until it is stained red

Black - Used in the stairs to the underground, the power outages, the Thriller shirt,

Black & White - Jason’s bow tie shirt

Red - Name of Adelaide’s double, color of blood, color of pending danger. It’s also the color of the lamp over Jason’s bed & the color of the flare gun. Represents the color of the Tethered.

Checkboard - A Masonic print used in places for rituals

Stripes - I noticed them but haven’t figured it out! I shall though!

The Rabbit

•Seen in the underground

•Zora’s shirts - One is green with a rabbit on it, the other says “Thó” which is Vietnamese for rabbit.

•Adelaide is playing with a rabbit in the sandbox at the therapy office

•Adelaide has a toy rabbit in a box at the summer home

•Jason has a toy rabbit

*He keeps a rabbit at the end

THE NUMBER 11

In numerology, double numbers possess good meaning and usually mean change, transformation, growth, etc.

Here’s all the times I saw it.

•Jeremiah 11:11

•Channel 11 @ 11

• “I want number 11” Addy says at the carnival

• 11:11 on Jason’s clock

•Sports team score is 11/11 - Channel 11

•Black Flag T-shirt - 4 straight lines could be 1111

Random Key Things I Noticed

•If Red is the real Adelaide, and Adelaide is the clone; that means the clone gave birth to the children. Making the children half-tethered.

•Adelaide & Jason snap off beat, but Zora and dad sing on beat.

•Jason & Pluto have a very strong connection, because they are half-tethered. The twins even call Jason weird on the beach.

Which he is, because he’s digging tunnels. He’s also obsessed with masks, communicates strangely, and chooses the weirdest times to display emotion. Which could probably be a result of being half-tethered.

•The Thriller shirt. Not only do the lyrics go with what’s happening metaphorically, but Michael Jackson happens to go crazy with the duality in Thriller. He’s half man-half werewolf & also half alive-half dead. This plays directly into the movies theme.

•In the Bible verse mentioned, if you continue reading, it makes mention of Baal. How God knew the people were burning incense to Baal. Baal is baphomet, The goat demon. A principle associated with him is the “As above, so below”.

*There is a pentagram on the frisbee thrown at the beach.

*When Red holds the scissors towards the end of the movie, it is in the pose of Baphomet.

Class system?

•The people above ground have access to much more than those below. Like the class system seen in America.

•The white family friends had a backup generator, representing the amount of “Power” they had.

•Gabe asks “What are you?” not “Who are you?” Showing that he viewed the tethered as inhuman.

•The tethered do not speak, just like the lower classes have no social economic voice.

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