AJ1639
AJ1639 t1_j9txko2 wrote
Reply to I hated the film 'Nope' by jonah_wilkie
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.
AJ1639 t1_jdvmc9o wrote
Reply to Any good historical type movies? Like Mudbound, Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Wolf of wall Street, and The highway Men? by dino_niggets
The Searchers - 1956 (Western)
Lawrence of Arabia - 1962
Once Upon a Time in the West - 1968 (Western)
The Godfather - 1972 (Crime)
The Godfather: Part II - 1974 (Crime)
Chinatown - 1974 (Mystery)
Barry Lyndon - 1975
Once Upon a Time in America - 1984 (Crime)
Amadeus - 1984
Platoon - 1986
Goodfellas - 1990 (Crime)
Unforgiven - 1992 (Western)
Orlando - 1992
Farewell My Concubine - 1993
Schindler's List - 1993
Boogie Nights - 1997
L.A. Confidential - 1997 (Mystery)
City of God - 2002 (Crime)
Memories of Murder - 2003 (Mystery)
Brokeback Mountain - 2005 (Western)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - 2007 (Western)
There Will Be Blood - 2007
Django Unchained - 2012 (Western)
There Will Be Blood - 2007
Inherent Vice - 2014 (Mystery)
Phantom Thread - 2017
The Favourite - 2018
Portrait of a Lady on Fire - 2019
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - 2019
Judas and the Black Messiah - 2021
The Northman - 2022
Babylon - 2022