Combining comedy, thrills and tension, Jordan Peele's Nope is a comic love letter to Hollywood and the American dream.
What makes Nope successful as a blockbuster that combines satire and honesty is its ability to be emotionally and graphically compelling: it makes viewers root for the pursuit of money and stardom at the expense of their own trauma.
The story of the movie
The film offers us a story without filler that fully lives up to what its trailers revealed to us. It is a film about things falling from the sky and characters who glimpse something sinister in the clouds, and at the same time it is completely different from the direct marketing that it received, which gave us glimpses of the plot but skillfully concealed it. jewel.
It's a difficult film to spoil (although you won't find major details here that haven't already been revealed), partly because it is so different from all of Peele's previous works both in subject matter and in the sophistication of his style.
Nope tells the story of Hollywood horse rancher Otis Haywood Jr. (Daniel Kaluuya) and his sister Emerald (Keke Palmer), who after the violent death of their father, Otis Sr (Keith David), find conflicting ways to move forward. For Otis Jr who witnessed his father's death up close.
He tries to get ahead by silently keeping the business thriving, but as for his more outgoing sister, she wants to leave the farm behind and market her diverse talents to anyone who will listen, including Otis' business partner, Ricky Park, aka "Job" (Steven Yan). ), an actor turned entrepreneur who runs a Western-style carnival. Although he has some (highly publicized) traumas of his own due to him being a former child star.
Characters
As much as Nope is about characters threatened by what appear to be flying saucers, it's also about what drives people's reactions to events like mysterious power outages and a variety of things raining down on them from above. Whether or not they are here to save the world, or even to survive.
What they want in the end is to take a picture of this flying saucer and sell it for a fortune. This, of course, does not mean that Bale takes a normal approach to the subject. Rather, it can be said that it is one of the most summer films that leaves you in a state of tension and anticipation that we have seen in a long time, but we cannot help it. However, we feel here the touch of Bill himself in studying modern Hollywood and the return of black horror films.
Stylistically, Nope is not a criticism of studio filmmaking; in fact, it is a testament to Peele's brilliance as a director, who can bring a sense of unease to blockbusters as a concept (which use images, stories, and spectacle as a money-first pursuit) and yet deliver a thoroughly entertaining film. It is one of the best that cinema has presented.
