Us, is filled with symbolism and metaphors; the movie made it glaringly clear that there was a deeper meaning behind the story by using various recurring motifs such the colors red and white, rabbits, and scissors, but there was an underlying ambiguity that made it difficult to pin down what ideas the movie is trying to convey to the audience. However, it is obvious that there is an overarching theme about identity (after all, the movie is titled “Us”). When the movie reveals that Red is actually the human Adelaide, and that the Adelaide on the surface is actually the tethered Adelaide from underground, it forces us to retract our previous notions of “good” and “bad” and re-evaluate the characters. Throughout the movie, Adelaide is seen as the protagonist, protecting her family against the doppelganger villains. However, when we learn that she is actually a tethered, this overturns our previous perspective of Adelaide. Before the switch, tethered Adelaide was forced to live underground, eating raw rabbits and unable to see the light of day, while surface Adelaide could go to carnivals and live a normal life. It is understandable that one would want to seek a better life for oneself, and so tethered Adelaide kidnaps surface Adelaide and forgets her previous life underground. However, the real Adelaide becomes Red, and like her tethered counterpart, seeks to give not only herself but also the other tethered a better life by staging an uprising and un-tethering themselves from their surface counterparts. During the scene when Adelaide kills Red, she lets out a disturbingly primal growl that is similar to the language of the tethered, which is a subtle hint that she is actually a tethered. That brief moment when she reveals her tethered side shows that she is not much different from Red, and that Red is not much different from Adelaide. Even though the tethered are portrayed as the “others,” violent monsters that are vastly different from humans, Adelaide’s human characteristics and Red’s tethered characteristics suggest otherwise. Throughout the film, there is seemingly a clear cut line between the good (humans) and the bad (tethered), but through both Adelaides, it seems that they are actually one and the same, that both tethered and humans are us.