Nope.

 

- Nope. (2022. Dir. Jordan Peele). 

After a freak accident kills their father, siblings OJ and Em attempt to keep their family business afloat -the breeding of trained horses for films. Meanwhile, ambitious Jupe, a former child star who survived an horrific incident in the set of a Sitcom years ago, is running a profitable if highly tacky Western theme park. Jupe’s latest scheme involving the siblings' horses concerns the mother of all spectacles: Seemingly proof of extraterrestrial intelligence! But no revelation awaits these determined people —only more horror and a harsh lesson about just how cruel nature can be…

Peele’s latest film continues the social themes he examined in his previous “Get Out” and “Us”. Once again he uses what first appear to be familiar genre tropes (this time the notion of an alien invasion) but soon reveal themselves to be something quite different: A parable about the exploitation of tragedies and wild nature for cheap spectacle. Like them, it’s a movie that opens itself to several interpretations thanks to the myriad themes touched upon. There is our very obsession with seeing, with image. The desire to dominate nature, and the sometimes harrowing results it leads to. And of course, Peele’s constant themes of social and racial issues that derive in the way we frame the stories we tell. 

A movie that is both powerful shocker and subtle think piece, quite recommended. 

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