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#jordan peele is such a fucking genius this is his best work yet and thats a high bar to set three times in a row now
griddlebutch · 2 years
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The way that the alien in Nope's final form looks like an old studio camera. The way the opening credits take place inside its stomach, shown as an endless darkness framed by billowing sheets - the blanket-like hood of an old camera that the photographer hides under. The way Jupe calls the alien The Viewer. The way Jupe makes stuffed animals of what he imagines the aliens inside the "ship" to look like subconsciously reference the camera magazines on the set of Gordy's Home with the body of a monkey. The way that Jupe was only saved because the table cloth kept him from looking Gordy in the eyes. The way that OJ and Em signal "I see you" before the final showdown. The violence of attention. The all-seeing eye. The panopticon. The camera obscura. The dark chamber. The spectacle.
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dracwife · 2 years
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Dex I saw Nope and I loved it!! Pls give me some of your thoughts about the movie cuz I’ve been trying to talk to people about it but no one I know rly wants to see it and the people who have didn’t have a lot to say ahdjfkgl
oh my god man i could write forever ab this movie man. oooh my god. theres so much to it. its by far my favorite movie of 2022 and one of the few horror films ive seen thats genuinely frightened me. that scene following jupe/the crowd after theyve been eaten and its pure silence cut by screaming and claustrophobic shots of something we still don't know a lot about. that shit gave me fucking CHILLS in the theater.
i love it i love it all i love the buildup i love the characters i love the acting i love the writing i love the blending of genres i love that its a love letter to films i love that theres ambiguity and a lot left to interpretation i love that u can say its about movies bc of the overarching idea of being watched/surveillance etc i love that you can say its about poc history and specifically black history and preservation of it because of oj and em's constant struggle to get "the oprah shot" to be heard about their own discovery etc and still being overshadowed by jupe and his people and on a larger scale the industry at the beginning and you can say its about capitalism and the consequences of facing something that shouldnt be tamed and normalized like the oppressive force of 'the industry' by smaller creators/businesses/etc and how easily it is to be overcome with irrelevance no matter your size its all ab power and money and all of those theories can be right. jordan peele is a fucking genius ok. i love nope 2022 so much and i still want to see it again to go back and work out some of the details i missed or havent pieced together yet
the only downsides i believe are you definitely have to be a scifi fan as well as horror to enjoy it to the fullest extent and remain engaged enough to be able to get those kinds of analyses. and i believe its a movie thats best experienced in theaters...it simply won't be the same w/ at home streaming tbh and its a shame some ppl wont be able to experience it in a theater bx its actually mindblowing when u do.
tldr here is my official letterboxd review
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