Nope (Jordan Peele, July 22, 2022) Movie • Page 10

It’s the same shoe he had in his secret showroom

It has to mean something, just not sure what

 

Had a great time with this. Will probably post more thoughts later

 

I really thought that shoe was gonna do something when they flashed back lol

 

Just got out of it... went in not knowing anything or seen anything about it outside of what Universal Studios built for their parks as an attraction. First half was slow, but good... the barn alien scene had everyone going F that in the theater. Second half was good in its pace picking up, but... man... I don't think anyone was sure what we just watched at the end of that. Hilariously bad story to end it.

 

Lovvvvvved this.

 

The aliens being the kids was such a whack fake out I was so ready for those fuckers to take over the movie lol

 

Loved it, maybe my favorite of his and definitely up there. Agree its more Spielberg than straight horror, but two scenes in there are really really scary visuals.

About the shoe: The shoe was standing up because Jean Jacket was there, Gordy was the earliest encounter with it. I'm not sure if it was really small, maybe it just landed from, but things standing straight up +power cut was a signal that its magnetic field was in the area. I wouldn't be surprised to see a "things you missed video" where its visible somewhere in that scene.

I have so many questions about its origins and how exactly it works, how smart the thing is, why animals react the way they do, but I loved so much of this. Think it only needed a scene where a horse attacked someone, the Gordy scene feels like too much of an outlier.

 

looking at every cloud extra suspiciously today

 

Eh don’t like the shoe standing cause of Jean jacket. Doesn’t work for me with the little context provided in the Gordy scene

 

I’ll try to piece together some of my quick thoughts:

-the fits and wardrobe are so top notch in this. Everything Keke and Daniel are wearing, from beginning to end. For a non period piece no less.

-Daniel Kaluuya’s eyes, always

-the Haywood business being hit hard by CGI, and the movie opening with a CGI monkey.

-the blood rain set piece is immediately one of my favorite horror moments of the last couple decades

-I remember Christopher Doyle saying the goal of filmmaking is to just make one memorable image. Peele and Hoytema have loads here.

-I love Yuen trying to suppress his survivors guilt and trauma by turning his entire life into a form of showmanship as he grapples with all of it. The SNL monologue was great. Also Yuen maybe feeling as though he had a connection with Jean Jacket the same way he may have been spared by Gordy.

-the Signs dinner table scene

-love the idea that Nayman (ringer review) hits on about respecting the wild. Humility (looking down, the horse/Jean jacket) is better than hubris.

-Gordy going off because a balloon pop, Jean Jacket being destroyed by a balloon pop

 

i also thought this about the shoe but I’m not sure it makes sense

 

I thought the shoe was maybe a form of a bad miracle

 

The people next to me said they loved it except for the last shot which felt super weird to me.

 

Just watched the final trailer and... I'm glad I didn't prior to seeing the film. Felt like a total bamboozle compared to how the feel of the movie was.

 

There’s just so much going on here. I’m more impressed the more I sit with it. The more I read pieces about critics I respect. The Ringer and Vox pieces are both particularly great.


I also found myself thinking a lot about Haneke’s Funny Games while I watched this. It’s construction and style are far different but I think Haneke and Peele are hitting on at least something in the same ballpark, which is “more! (More! MORE!!)”, and our complicity as a paying audience in that conceit.

 

This is what I'm seeing a lot of people say online, that it kept Steven Yeun from looking directly at Gordy, which saved his life in the end. Also ties to the impossible shot theme that was recurring. I still think it has to be tied directly to Jean Jacket based on the framing with the title cards and how it shut off the power directly before. Maybe there'll be something that confirms it one way or the other or it might just supposed to be a weird thing.

 

i want tha

lmao wut

 

I don't remember how the scene went exactly but I thought the cut to black before Gordy's attack wasn't literally meant to be the power going out

also it's pretty fucked up that SNL did a sketch about it

 

The opening shot when Gordy looks directly at the camera, so unsettling.

 

Looking directly at us, The Viewers, before being consumed and dying for entertainment.

Yeah maybe the shoe is just metaphorical but I still feel like its connected to Jean Jacket.

 

I think the early scene with OJ and Lucky on the set played into the Gordy stuff perfectly.

The cast and crew didn’t give a shit about the horse. I was fully expecting Lucky to kick the shit out of the actress.

 

Very much into this. Loved how straightforward it was in the end.

 

Loved this. Cannot wait to see it again.

 

The Jaws parallels in the last act sent me

 

The stage lights would have gone out. No way Jean jacket was there.