Submitted by jonah_wilkie t3_11amgrq in movies
AJ1639 t1_j9txko2 wrote
I don't know if you realize this, but Peele's films are usually allegorical. And each of his films has felt less and less of a need to overtly spell out the allegory for the audience.
In Get Out the allegory was explained in a exposition dump while Kaluuya is strapped to the chair watching the TV.
In Us the allegory isn't really explained, but the mechanics of the others are. The audience is still left to determine what the surface people and others are suppose to represent in society.
And in Nope nothing is explained beyond conjecture. Yet there is still allegory. I mean there is simple idea of how humans exploit creatures in order to film them. Which involves aligning interests. Throughout the movie this is achieved with the alien by feeding it horses. Yet, this isn't the alien's true motivation, and as such the human characters still view it as savage due to their inability to understand the alien's desires. You can then take this explanation as an allegory for things like slavery. Where slaves were forced to work, and physical punishment was used to ensure work. So that is the physical punishment aligns interests because the slave doesn't want to be whipped for instance and the owner wants labor. Yet when this failed slaves were often talked about as untrainable brutes or savages.
All I'm saying is the allegory of the film is there you just need to put in the effort to look for it.
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