spoilers does the twist make any sense - Us (2019) Discussion

[–] EvilPinata (1186) 5 years ago

Not really. It asks the audience to make leaps of logic and suspend their disbelief quite a bit. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely loved the movie, but it's better if you don't really think about it too much which is kind of difficult since the concept is something that begs to be thought about.

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[–] ILJtheFirst (1925) 5 years ago

This is a case of the "twist" getting added just so there was a twist. Just pretend it doesn't exist.

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[–] LTUM (974) 5 years ago

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[–] halomaniac88 (1736) 5 years ago

i agree, the thriller genre is filled with unnecessary twists.

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[–] bonerman (96) 5 years ago

the part that doesnt make sense is when the lady remembers her night at the beach she remembers it from the real girls perspective. They trick the audience this way but how can she remember it from the real girls point of view?

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[–] whatwazdat (374) 5 years ago

The clones were pantomiming their counterparts from the underground remember? So in a way, she did know what the real girl was doing, where she went when she got lost, etc. I still don't get the government experiment angle. A project of that magnitude, of a whole underground world pantomiming and controlling what we do on the surface? When this family was driving for hours, how did the clones pantomime that? LOL!

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[–] bonerman (96) 5 years ago

the clones sort of mimicked what was happening on the surface but when the movie shows a flashback from the main characters perspective they played a trick on us by showing the real girls perspective. So no, its not clever writing its trickery. And poor writing.

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[–] Cathexis (112) 5 years ago

They show the clones pantomiming the rides at the amusement park, so driving a car wouldn't be hard to do.

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[–] mitzibishi (1616) 5 years ago

So the clones of the local people were directly under the park where the elevator is situated, miles away from the holiday home, so what about her hometown? The people watching her dancing, so they were clones of the hometown people crammed into the corridors under the fun fair.

Or does it stretch the whole of the U.S. and cover the whole population, but they are in corridors so the open space of large cities, where people live in high rises have to fit into these corridors.

And what about children after the experiments stop, they get an exact match of children.

And why did the government just leave supposedly millions of people underground and not expect a revolt of some kind.

Its all too much to think about and just unravels when you do.

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[–] exatera (3942) 4 years ago

Or any type of travel, for that matter. How would the tethered fly to China or something?

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[–] triplea (3577) 2 years ago

What about Neil Armstrong?

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[–] QUIOLOGY (2) 5 years ago

I think a better ending would have been where the real Adelaide (Red) kills the fake Adelaide (clone) and switches. (I know the hair is different). Then the twist would be more satisfying, and the look her son gives her at the end would make more sense because even if the son does suspect she's a clone, she's still his mom. It would be a double twist. The movie as is, the real Adelaide loses twice.

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[–] EvilPinata (1186) 5 years ago

But the real Adelaide isn't the sons mom, the clone is. Plus, no one else would buy that she's the real Adelaide because of her voice. She may have been the real one, but none of the family know her because the clone is the only mom they've known.

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[–] APPLEhead54 (13) 5 years ago

cool ending better than what was lol. when they were fighting in the classroom i thought Ade was gonna have to kill herself in order to kill red, because at first red was winning the fight. and since the real people controlled their clone it would have been cooler if Ade killed herself to make red die to save her family.

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[–] EvilPinata (1186) 5 years ago

Wouldn't that only work if Red killed herself because she wasn't the clone and the clones are supposed to be the controlled? Then all the clones up top would be dead too after killing the people they're tethered to.

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[–] APPLEhead54 (13) 5 years ago

Yup you're right, i got mixed up, which i think makes for another plot hole. If the clones are mimicking the actions of their humans, why didn't the clones die once they killed their human? Hmmm...

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[–] EvilPinata (1186) 5 years ago

I just thought when they're both above ground ground the tether was essentially broken, but if they swap places like Adelaide and Red did, the real one is now tethered to the clone because in the movie Red danced because of Adelaide, not vise versa. Like there's some sort of invisible barrier That doesn't allow the soul to go below the surface world. Anyways, they kind of did do the killing thing with the young boy and I think that only worked because the boy might have been on the spectrum.

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[–] Towelie_Towel (1700) 5 years ago

The twist is not very relevant in terms of story.
Because even though the mother was a clone, she was the "real" mother, the real member of the family, and was the "hero" of the story because she just wanted to protect her family - unlike the original that wanted to kill everyone.

The twist seemed to have more interest on the metaphor side of the movie.
With the twist we were able to see how a "freak" becomes "normal" when moved from bad conditions to good conditions, and how a "normal" becomes a "freak" when moved from good conditions to bad conditions.

Of course the movie was trying to do a parallel of a society where some people have everything, and their main concern is what car to but, while other people in the same society have nothing.

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[–] ExTechOp (2741) 5 years ago

The "twist" was the whole point of the story.

First, from a practical perspective, it's the lynchpin of the entire plot. A girl who's "supposed to be" above-ground winds up underground, where her superior abilities and intelligence enable her to lead a rebellion.

No switcheroo would mean no rebellion and no "Hands Across America" (the young doppelgänger didn't have a "Hands Across America" shirt or a Thriller shirt).

BTW, I don't know how many people remember, but Hands Across America was supposed to be a big deal and wound up being a bust. Not enough people showed up to hold hands. Guess it took gimp-brained doppelgängers to pull it off.

The twist was also an important part of the "Trading Places" metaphor - Red became civilized because she escaped the underground. Adelaide became a savage because she was trapped there.

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[–] footlegger (1462) 4 years ago

Yup, that's exactly what I thought.

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[–] GreenGoblinsOck8 (7401) 5 years ago

I admit, I didn't care for the twist and thought it was stupid. It sort of ruined the movie for me.

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[–] fzane (1001) 5 years ago

the twist made the movie for me.

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[–] macken74 (613) 5 years ago

I agree ! it made no sense at all and for that i cant recommend it now , before the dumb twist yes but not after that !

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[–] [email protected] (1627) 5 years ago

How is this a twist when the reds appeared I already knew they switched? It's obvious, I'm sure I am not the only one that noticed it.