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What a great movie. I’m still having just random thoughts about it as I’m waking up: My theater showed a trailer for a Labor Day release of Jaws remastered, which was insanely appropriate for Nope given the Spielberg influences, right down to how Em kills Jean Jacket. The feeling I got when my understanding of the crowd’s fate went from “abduction” to “digestion” and the blood started running down the house was the most unsettled I’ve been at a movie since Midsommar, which was awesome. Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer knocked it out of the park. I love how they’re Oliver Senior’s personality literally divided into both of his kids. OJ is the technical expert, devoted to the horses, the farm, and has a fantastic understanding of animals in general, while Em is the gregarious showman with the eye for business. Things can only work when they both work together. And on that note, I’m kind of wondering how people can interpret Em as “hallucinating” OJ in that last shot. Given that it’s a pretty clear Jaws homage, we already had the death of the Quint stand-in with Holst and Hooper/Angel nearly died but made it by the skin of his teeth. I’m just gonna assume that Em and OJ are both playing Brody, he’s clearly alive and leave it at that. EDIT: And of all the things I expected to come out of this movie, I did NOT figure that it was going to be a treatise on the use of animals in film. ElectricSheep fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Jul 23, 2022 |
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