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    The ending of 'Us': Jordan Peele on who the real villains are

    by Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times Mar 26, 2019 6 minutes

    If you were among the scores of moviegoers who helped push "Us" to a record-breaking $70.2 million debut over the weekend, then now you know: The real villains in Jordan Peele's smash horror hit aren't quite who - or what - they seem.

    Warning: The following includes spoilers for the new horror film "Us."

    Fans making sense of the twisty ending of "Us" are busy decoding its dense array of symbolism, from all those white rabbits to the number 11, which pops up in multiples everywhere from the Giants game on TV to the ominously referenced "Jeremiah 11:11" Bible passage portending destruction, scrawled on the homemade sign of a local beach bum.

    Peele's follow-up to his Oscar-winning directorial debut spins an even more ambitious yarn than "Get Out," in which an African American man (Daniel Kaluuya) found himself fighting his way out of The Sunken Place, a subconscious prison borne of toxic white liberalism.

    In the spooky prologue to "Us," 9-year-old Adelaide Wilson (Madison Curry) visits the

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