Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
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In the King James Bible, the verse reads: "Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them."
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Read More »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 passage then proceeds to become a recurring motif throughout the movie. We see it again when Gabe is watching baseball, the announcer says “we’re tied at 11:11.” Then, Jason points out that the clock in Adelaide's bedroom reads 11:11 p.m. We also subtly see 11:11 represented in a Black Flag t-shirt worn by one of the Tyler twins in the form of four blocks. When Adelaide returns to the Santa Cruz beach as an adult, she sees the same man who held the cardboard sign dead and being pushed into an ambulance. As Peele has explained about Us, "There’s a double meaning to everything…This movie’s about duality.” That type of duality is represented visually with the mirrored image of 11:11. But, beyond that, the idea works thematically with Us as well. So, what does this specific bible verse mean? In the King James Bible, the verse reads: "Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them." As one fan on Reddit points out, this could be interpreted one of two ways: "The evil are the tethered, who are coming for mankind, unable to escape. OR The evil is the pointless suffering the tethered have to endure for the sake of humanity." This parallel interpretation speaks to the theme of duality in the movie. And it's more likely that the latter interpretation is the one worth focusing on. It helps to know a little context about Jeremiah. Here's one passage from the Encyclopedia Brittanica: During the reign of Josiah, after his call, Jeremiah preached to the people of Jerusalem and warned them against the sin of apostasy. Recalling the prophecies of the 8th-century Israelite prophet Hosea, Jeremiah reproached the Judaeans for playing harlot with other gods and urged them to repent. He prophesied that enemies from the north would be the instruments of Yahweh’s judgment on the apostate land and Jerusalem would suffer the fate of a rejected prostitute. The idolatry and immorality of the Judaeans would inevitably lead to their destruction. Because of the impending threat from the north, Jeremiah warned the people to flee from the wrath that was to come. In other words, Jeremiah often prophesied certain doom for the worship of false idols. This sounds quite a bit like how Adelaide's doppelgänger, Red, believes she's being tested by God to lead the Tethered from doom. Jeremiah's narrative in the Bible also coincides with the exile of the Jews in Babylon—which sounds similar to the exile of the Tethered below ground.
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Read More »As the Reddit user theorizes, breaking the link between those on the surface and the Tethered could be that test:
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Read More »It's also interesting to think about this conclusion within the context of the big twist. Given the blurring of who is Tethered and who is not—meaning the switch of Adelaide and Red as children—it's open to interpretation about who, exactly, this bible verse applies to. This also ties in, quite beautifully, with the recurring motif of Hands Across America, which points to this country's struggle to take care of the forgotten people suffering beneath the surface of the United States. It's also worth noting, if you didn't notice, that Us could also quite literally be U.S.
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