Adelaide starts out a normal girl, but after spending decades underground with the doubles, she eventually goes insane and decides to put together a murderous uprising.įurthermore, as the movie unfolds, we see that we’re not so special and not so different.
Conversely, if a “soul” does exist, then it can just as easily be worn away by circumstance. She couldn’t have expressed herself through dance, found love, or been a part of a family. If Red truly had no “soul”, then she never could have adapted to life above ground. The reason the doubles are “soulless” isn’t because the soul couldn’t be copied, but because they never had a chance at one in the first place.īy swapping Red and Adelaide, we see a strong argument in favor of nurture over nature. But switching Red and Adelaide leads to something far unnerving, which is that the concept of a “soul” is a luxury provided by those who have the comfort of freedom and choice. Given the behavior we see from all the doubles-killing with abandon, showing no remorse over their actions, etc.-that would seem to hold true. We’re told earlier in the film that the doubles couldn’t reasonably function as doubles because they lacked a soul, and that for all the copying the government could do, they couldn’t replicate that one part. Instead, we should look at the subtext of the story, and here we find the most disturbing revelation of all. The mythology of Us provides a cursory explanation of how things unfolded, but they’re not the point of the movie. For some, this may cause you to double back on the movie and wonder if all of “Adelaide’s” actions are actually in service to the doubles, but the “how” of it, as I’ve explained before, is ultimately far less interesting.
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