The movie "Us" is a horror film directed by Jordan Peele. The movie follows the Wilson family, consisting of Adelaide, Gabe, and their children Jason and Zora, as they are confronted by their doppelgängers, known as the Tethered. The Tethered are revealed to be clones of humans created by the government to control the population. The movie has a shocking ending that reveals that Adelaide is actually Red, her Tethered clone, and that they switched places when they met in a carnival maze years ago.

The final scene of the movie shows the Tethered clones holding hands in Santa Roza and forming a "human chain" that was inspired by the real-life Hands Across America event that took place on May 25th, 1986, and was meant to raise money for charities that focus on poverty, homelessness, and hunger.

The movie is rife with metaphors and allegories, and the ending is much more ambiguous than Peeles directorial debut, "Get Out". The movie constantly reminds its audience that Americas story is one of history perpetually being forgotten or overwritten, like the genocide of Native Americans, whose iconography gets briefly appropriated and then hastily remodeled for the maze that starts the story. Characters frequently speak of forgetting things, and Adelaides entire character is rooted in forgetting. The movies overall theme is that we are all tethered not only to each other but also to the sins of our countrys past and present, to the people and cultures we have tried to erase and diminish.