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Jordan Peele's We broke records at the box office this weekend with a start of $ 70 million – which means a lot people have seen his terrifying mind – k of a movie and are probably right now, "huh?" Because We, unlike most traditional horror movies, has a lot in mind. Here we will try to answer a lot of questions that you might ask yourself, so if you do not see We, be warned: There is a ton of spoilers coming.
Where do we begin? Adelaide (Lupita Nyong'o) does not have a hard time. Actually Adelaide but one of the captives? And rather than protecting her family during the movie, is she trying to keep her past secret? (Or both!). Or to explain why Peele chose Hands Across America as the central theme? Perhaps with a soap opera of the Good Book to Jeremiah 11:11?
Below, we will dive into the big ideas and the big questions of the film and we will enlighten a little. But be warned: the more we look, the more questions we find, so join this deep We dissection in the comments, offering new questions and increasingly elaborate theories about Peele's latest creepy puzzle.
Can you clarify exactly What are the "attachés"?
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This is pure speculation, because no one has come out to explain the importance of the suits and gloves – nor how the Tethered has seized a multitude of suits, gloves and gold scissors. (Amazon Prime is all over.) But a number of online theories suggest the influence of Michael Jackson in the choice of costumes. When Adelaide is kidnapped and dropped during the opening sequence (although the actual facts are revealed at the end), she wears a "Thriller" t-shirt, which her doppelganger steals before returning to the surface. Like so many things she had connected with before she was dragged down (Hands Across America being the main one), "Thriller" stuck her to it. In the famous music video, Jackson wears an all-red outfit. The choice of using only one glove with the right hand could also make a wink to Jackson, who often wore a single glove on stage with his right hand. On top of that, Peele could refer to Freddy Krueger and his famous glove; the killer is one of Peele's favorite slashers and a VHS of Freddy is seen next to the television in the opening movie.
Jeremiah 11:11
If you, like us, googled "Jeremiah 11:11" by the time the We credits obtained, you, like us, probably thought: well, that makes sense. The verse reads: "That is why so says the Lord: behold, I will bring upon them an evil that they can not escape; and although they cry to me, I will not listen to them. "A frightful evil unleashed and a God who will not hear our prayers Yes, it works The verse comes from a pbadage that also alludes to the past sins of a people and how the people of God has forgotten The verse is referenced several times in the film.First, Adelaide asks lot 11, as well as the inscription on the panel of the homeless man, and then engraved on his forehead. 11 and 11 even appear sooner, when Adelaide is watching TV, during an advertisement.) The figures appear again on the alarm clock at 11:11 pm and on the ambulance at the end of the movie.
What is there with rabbits?
When we asked Peele about rabbits at the We firsthe said it was just that the rabbits were scary: "We can say in their eyes that they have the brain of a sociopath." But we think that more is happening here. There are of course serious Alice in Wonderland vibes – a girl follows a white rabbit in another world. But there is also the notion of rabbits as frequent subjects of scientific experiments. At the opening of the film, Peele pbades from a photo of young Adelaide who silently yells at a close-up of a white rabbit caged at the beginning of the credit sequence. This is an obvious indication of what happened in Adelaide (it has just been caged), but also an introduction to the theme of multiplicity (rabbits, they multiply at high speed!) 'slavery. Why the Tethered eat rabbits? Well, it seems they have few valuable options and that fast-reproducing rabbits are a sustainable food source.
"Rabbits … they have brains like a sociopath." @ JordanPeele explains how the lovable creatures of nature are the most terrifying animals. #UsMovie pic.twitter.com/94FYwPRjvF
– Rotten Tomatoes (@RottenTomatoes) March 21, 2019
And what about spiders?
Spiders are another recurring animal motif. First, the young Adelaide whistles "Itsy Bitsy Spider" in the ice room, before young Red badumes the melody; Later, while she is sitting beaten and almost dead in the climax of the film, the real Adelaide tries again to whistle the melody. It was the last song she had heard before her kidnapping. Why this song? Once again: symbolism. The song tells the story of a small spider that is trying to come out of a water chute but that is washed again; later, when the sun comes up and dries the rain, the spider goes back up. A bit like the Tethered, right? At first we see a kind of visualization of this, while Adelaide looks at a little spider coming out from under a big spider. The big and big spider is false; the vulnerable little spider is real. Again: symbolism.
How much does Jason know?
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Adjusted score: 113.14%
Consensus of critics: With Jordan Peele's second ambitious and inventive horror film, we saw how to defeat the second student, and it's us.