Nope is the greatest movie of all time

Nope. "What if I told you that today you'll leave here different. I'm talking to you. Right here, you are going to witness an absolute spectacle."

Gist is siblings played by Daniel Kaluuya from Get Out and Keke Palmer (whom I didn’t recognize) run a family horse ranch when they discover something sinister in the skies. Meanwhile the owner of the theme park next door (played Steven Yeun who was Glen in The Walking Dead) tries to tame the otherworldly creature to turn a profit. Acting is incredible. Everyone mentioned is stellar. The guy who plays Angel is also great. The guy who plays the cinematographer, Michael Wincott, is a true heat check performance. Came out and put up 30 points and a quarter type of shit. Mostly think of him from the Jim Jarmusch movie Dead Man.

 
Listened to some interviews with Peele. He cites King Kong, Jurassic Park, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Signs, and The Wizard of Oz as influences on the film. He considers these films as examples of addiction to spectacle, which is one of two major themes in the film.

Lot of symbolism and parallel storytelling going on. I suspect Nope will be a pretty polarizing watch. I love a movie that you really have to think about.The weird thing people are talking about is this incident that happened to Yeun’s character when he was a sitcom actor in the 1990s. He’s on a show that has a monkey that goes apeshit and kills/maims actors on set. Monkey business if you will. Keep coming back to it. Yeun survives. Is about to fist bumped the monkey, which it’s been trained to do, but the police come in and kill it. My thought is the guy represents exploitation of nature/animals. Makes money off of the monkey incident and then tries to make money off of this creature. As they make clear you can’t tame an apex predator. Despite this clear message, this guy didn’t learn his lesson and dies because of it. 

Not only that but it puts lotta other people in danger because of his hubris. They come for a lasso show any forces an encounter with aliens on that. No one paid for that, bra. 

It is a really beautiful film, the creature is beautiful, the cinematography is beautiful, the landscape, the horses, lotta beauty. Fine with the ending but I’ve seen some complaints about it. I totally loved it.