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Mar 26, 2019 · A sign at the park Adelaide sees just before the fateful encounter reads, “Jeremiah 11:11,” referring to the Bible passage that includes the foreboding words, “Therefore thus saith the Lord ...
- Contributor
Mar 27, 2019 · Jordan Peele's chilling new movie Us references the Bible verse Jeremiah 11:11, which contains a grim prophecy about punishment from God.
- Hannah Shaw-Williams
Mar 27, 2019 · If the warning of Jeremiah 11:11 is true, God isn't coming to deliver humankind from evil; we'll have to pick up the scissors and save ourselves.
Mar 25, 2019 · Early in Jordan Peele's Us, young Adelaide sees a man holding a sign that says "Jeremiah 11:11" on a ripped piece of cardboard just before she runs into her own young doppelgänger. The bible...
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- Us' Tethered Origin & Plans Explained
- Us' Adelaide/Red Twist Ending Explained
- What Jeremiah 11:11 Means in Us
- Us' Real Meaning Explained
The Tethered Are Protesting Their Own Mistreatment
The Tethered are perfect copies (or shadows) created by the U.S. government as a means of controlling the population, and are stored in the labyrinth of deserted tunnels underneath the country (a reference to the Mole People urban myth). Each Tethered is connected to their above-ground counterpart through a psychic connection, with all aspects of their life recreated meticulously. The initial purpose of the Tethered in Us was to literally turn the population into puppets: from underground, th...
Jason May Have Known The Truth
In 1986, Adelaide went to Santa Cruz Pier with her parents. Adelaide walked off and found herself in a hall of mirrors attraction, but as she tried to find her way out, she was first creeped out by an extra person whistling, then came across her Tether. For much of the movie, Usmakes the audience believe that this experience irreversibly scarred Adelaide and this connection is how the Tether broke free, and the trauma is why she's so driven to fight back. However, the final moments of Us reve...
The Tethered Revere Red As Their Savior
One recurring aspect of Us that is left unexplained is the repeated reference to the Bible passage Jeremiah 11:11. It's seen multiple times on a cardboard sign held by a drifter in Santa Cruz and one of the first to be killed by his Tethered. The movie doesn't provide the quote, but it reads as follows: Obliquely,it represents the brutality of the Tethered in their uprising and how unrelenting they are, with the command of the Lord being that of Adelaide, the only one who can speak. However,...
Jordan Peele Continues Though-Provoking Commentary In His Horror Movies
While Us isn't as directly targeted as Get Out, there's no avoiding what its core discussion is: Us is about fear of "the other" when "the other" is literally just us. The Tethered are the embodiment of outsiders that society was told to resent by the people who created them. Immediately, that's the homeless and underprivileged that Hands Across America was built to help while involving a President who made steps to worsen the social gap in a decade of opulence. However, the Tethered can repr...
- Adrienne Tyler
Oct 25, 2020 · If you haven’t been able to stop thinking about the movie since it came out in 2019, don’t worry. We have all your answers right here. Here’s the Us movie ending explained as well as everything else you may have missed. And of course, spoilers ahead for Us 2019.
Dec 4, 2023 · The ending of the film reveals a shocking twist, where the protagonist we've been rooting for is actually the villain. The film's deeper meaning revolves around the class divide, with the...
