In order to have their place in the sun, however, each of these doubles had to eliminate their human counterparts and take over those people’s lives. Inspired by a hopeful charity stunt from the 1980s called Hands Across America, which aimed to end homelessness and hunger in the U.S., these literally lower-level creatures want to escape their underground prison and spread out from sea to shining sea.
Just like any suppressed population of people, they want freedom. They’re “us,” also known as the “Tethered.” In addition to being the humans’ identical others, they’re the ones who wound up being controlled by their counterparts, having been forced to mimic the humans’ movements down below and even marrying corresponding doppelgängers and with them having children who are doubles of the humans’ children. These underground doubles have been tethered to the humans on the surface following a failed government science project meant to control people via their clones. Below we try to answer all the burning questions you were left with by Peele’s latest.Īs noted by the titles at the start of the movie, tunnels exist below the entire United States, and as we learn at the end of the movie, they’ve been the home of every American’s doppelgänger. But many of us left the theater a bit baffled yet curious as to the meaning of everything we just saw. Us debuted to critical acclaim ( 94% on Rotten Tomatoes) and a domestic gross of $71 million. This post contains MAJOR SPOILERS about the hit new movie. If you haven’t seen the filmmaker’s follow-up to the pop culture phenomenon Get Out, then go check it out as soon as possible and then come back here when you have. If you went to see Jordan Peele’s sophomore feature, Us, over the weekend, congratulations: you’re part of the zeitgeist.
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