If you’ve just stepped out of Jordan Peele’s
If you’ve just stepped out of Jordan Peele’s “Us,” your head is probably spinning with questions.
While we can’t explain the existential meaning of its themes like identity, free will and the fear of The Other that Peele poses throughout, we can help with one detail left unanswered by the film: What does the Bible passage “Jeremiah 11:11” say?
If you haven’t seen “Us,” yet, some SPOILERS!!!! follow.
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In the opening scene of “Us,” we see Lupita Nyong’o’s character Adelaide as a young girl in 1986. While walking through a carnival on a boardwalk by the beach, she sees a homeless man with a piece of cardboard that reads “Jeremiah 11:11.” When she returns to the beach as an adult, she sees the same homeless man with the same cardboard sign, only now he’s being carted into an ambulance as a bloody corpse.
Here’s “Jeremiah 11:11,” as translated into English in the King James Bible:
Pretty doom and gloom! Although it’s certainly appropriate for a horror movie like “Us,” it’s not among the more common verses used in the movies.
