10 Tiny Movie Details That Give Away Character Secrets

4. Adelaide Snaps Her Fingers Off-Beat, Suggesting She's A Tethered - Us

Us Lupita Nyongo
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Jordan Peele strikes again with his solid sophomore horror flick Us, which revolves around a family facing off against their own insanely creepy doppelgängers (aka The Tethered).

And just like Get Out, nothing in the film is done by accident: every minor detail is carried out by design, to the extent that Peele literally spells out the big twist in the first few minutes of the movie.

The end of Us reveals that mother Adelaide (Lupita Nyong'o) was actually her own doppelgänger, Red, all along, having been switched as a child, and the character we assumed to be Red was actually the real Adelaide.

This is brilliantly indicated by the opening the movie, when as the family is driving to the coast for their vacation, "Adelaide" tries to snap her fingers to the song "I Got 5 on It", only for her snaps to be out of time with the music, hitting beats 1 and 3 instead of 2 and 4 as you'd expect.

This immediately makes something seem "off" about her, to the extent that some even predicted the twist from the trailer alone. Given that Adelaide was a dancer as a youngster, there'd be no reason for her to fail to hold the correct beat.

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