This isn't a horror movie

Rating: 4/10 (22 March 2019)

Magnificent acting, cinematography and score. WAY too many holes. You can hide your vagueness behind metaphors and politics, but this was just plain messy. At the end of the day, this was supposed to be a horror movie. If you really want to make a political statement, why not at least hide it cleverly AND still make the storyline feel complete.
SPOILER ALERT.
-All the tethered were mentally incompetent when we first see them, YET the young tethered "Adelaide" was clever enough to kidnap her double, switch T-shirt's, find her family and take her place??? Why was she smarter than all the rest of the tethered?

After the switch, why do the other tethered follow "Real Adelaide" if their souls were split and they only know how to mirror their doubles? Because she danced which showed she was special and could control her body? Hadn't they seen real people with free will during the government experiment?

-How do they communicate with her and understand they need to kill their doubles or even know how to find them if they cannot even speak? Are we really supposed to believe that she is communicating with ALL of them by hand movements, whistles and stick figures on chalkboards? Even though she was just a child when she was kidnapped and barely had an education herself?
-Why was Jason able to control his double and get him to burn himself? That didn't work for anyone else...even though the others SOMETIMES mirrored each other. Sooo...they mirror each other sometimes?

Fake Adelaide loved both the real and tethered children - she was upset when bad Jason was going kill himself and when bad Zora was in the tree she reached out to her - even though she didn't birth them and had never met them. But the Tyler family tethereds easily killed their "other" twins.

MOST IMPORTANTLY, why didn't real Adelaide just leave and go kill fake Adelaide like the homeless 11:11 tethered did to his real double? We clearly see that he did this pre-revolt. Did they or didn't they have free will the entire time? Real Adelaide definitely had free will as evidenced throughout the entire movie, and could have left and told someone what was happening or gotten revenge much earlier, but instead she chose to stay underground, eat bunnies and have sex (and a family) with the mentally challenged Abraham, while she single-handedly staged a revolution for the tethereds.
A revolution, not against the government that created them, but against their innocent doubles that had no idea they existed. Or was it all for her selfish revenge, which she could have gotten 1:1. It's not like once they killed their "real" double, they became whole. That would have at least made sense both for plot purposes and metaphorically.
Again, make all the political statements and innuendos about human empathy and self-awareness you want, I love that. But please make sure the movie plot has a semblance of making sense.