As soon as they showed Adelaide in the therapists office with the mum and dad crying about how she won't talk anymore/they just want their little girl back etc. I just KNEW that Red had switched with her. But then the film had me doubting it throughout and I kept going back and forth between it.

There's SO many theories and additional nuggets of information though about the film and its content, I was up for HOURS last night reading them all and literally had to stop because there was just so many plausible things you wouldn't even notice the first time.

and i was shook at the theory of her son being a tether also! like there's so much evidence throughout to support it too!

I don’t think Jason was a tether though because it wouldn’t make sense for him to be able to control his tether and walk him into the fire. But then again I suppose original Adelaide ended up having to mirror originals red when she got switched so idk.

The reason why his face was burnt was because the magic trick that Jason tried to do but failed worked every time underground so kept burning his face :o

Also Adelaide = a place in Australia aka “down under” :eyes:

And also the thing that shook me the most was the fact that we only really felt sorry for the Tethers when we realised that Red was actually “one of us” I.e an above ground original. Was a nice metaphor for basically saying we don’t care about how the people below us feel until one of us get stripped of their luxuries and has to live a cruddy life. Like we hated Red the whole film until we realised she had been forced to live underground after living above. But then all the people underground were forced to live that way from the start so

I was on board with the theory of the doppelgangers being the originals before watching but the Adelaide / Red twist still shocked me, the "good" Adelaide actually being the evil young Adelaide from the flashback and vice versa took me completely by surprise. But it leaves me wondering if she knew all along or if she'd supressed her childhood memories only remembered the truth at the end :think:

Something else I wasn't completely clear on, we see that the Tethered mimic their originals' actions underground, so why did Red / Original Adelaide have to copy Tethered Adelaide's actions? Did them swapping places literally swap which one was in control?

That final shot of all the doppelgangers hand in hand with Les Fleurs playing over it :clap1: