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But what does this image of a flying saucermean?
A scream to put down the plastic.
(Congrats to Leonardo DiCaprio and Greta Thunberg.
First, put some respect on Jean Jackets name.
(Note how Miz Jacket takes an immediate stance against light and noise pollution and electricity in general.
So, really, Peeles message is the same: Humanity is self-destructing, and nothings more entertaining.
Sometimes a saucer-shaped carnivorous alien is just a saucer-shaped carnivorous alien!
You dont even know anyone who owns a chimp.
My response to that?
The alien showsuswhatever we showitbecause all we ever want to see is ourselves.
Roxana Hadadi
The Alien Is Filmmaking Itself
Nopeis a movie about Hollywood erasure.
The films monster may be a UFO, but it resembles a camera.
That Black cowboy was the great-great-great-grandfather of Emerald and O.J.
This creature is cushy and inflicts pain at the same time, the perfect metaphor for the movie biz.
on a horse who fully owns the final frame ofNope.
The monster in this movie wants to delete the possibility of these images existing.
It asks, What actually terrifies us?
The film presents a threat, and its climax captures it in a picture.
Are we really scared of aliens and the unknown?
Or do we actually crave what we have little to no knowledge of?
I think the monster is more of a tricky measure of fear.
He remembers connecting with Gordy after the attack, just before someone offscreen shoots the animal.
Gordy, he thinks, singled him out as special.
Its a very human reaction to the unfathomable.
ButNopepushes back against the easy explanations that our brains crave.
Jupe pays for his attempt at meaning-making by being eaten alive.
The monster isnt a metaphor.
Its a wild animal, and it will kill you if you treat it like anything else.
Whats more, the art being died for is mid.
A handful of people come to see Jupes sky lasso, with its hack music cues and child labor.
And isGordys Homeworth a mauling or two?
To that point, I think the alien inNopeis just an alien.
Treat animals like they matter, treat people like they matter, and dont ruin your life for posterity.
Is cinema an art worth suffering for?Irma Vepasks.
Bethy Squires
