If you've seen the movie, you know the twist at the end is that the Adelaide we've been following for the entire movie is actually the clone, and the Adelaide we thought was the clone is the girl we see at the beginning of the film. When the two encountered each other during childhood, the clone brought the original Adelaide to the tunnels and chained her up, stealing her life from her. On a second watch you start to realize how this was hinted towards throughout the movie.

Let's do this chronologically. After the clone has taken her place, she doesn't speak for a long time. We don't see any of the other clones talk, just Red. Even when she does talk, it's in an extremely raspy voice. This could be because she had her throat crushed at such a young age by her doppelganger. When the clone is a child, we also see her playing with a rabbit toy at the therapists. This is significant because the clones main source of food were rabbits being held in the underground tunnels.

When we see the clone as an adult, she acts very different than the rest of the normal people. She eats different food than the rest of them at dinner, and only drinks water at the beach, although everyone else isn't. This is showing how different she is from the rest of them. Throughout the course of the story, her clothes even become more and more stained with blood, mimicking the red outfits that the rest of the tethered wear in the film.

The biggest foreshadowing moment for me came right before the initial appearance of the tethered. When the clone is telling her story about encountering the girl in her childhood, we never see her face while she's telling the initial story. Instead, the face we see is reflection of her in the glass window. This is to show that the story being told is not through the point of view of the original Adelaide, but rather her clone; a pale reflection of the original.

Ryan Sippel

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