In 1998, a child actor named Ricky "Jupe" Park costarred with a chimp named Gordy on a sitcom. One day, Gordy went nuts, killing and maiming much of the cast (including the woman in the op) but then calms down and tries to playfully fist-bump Ricky before being put down by the authorities.
In present day, Ricky owns a rickety wild west theme park just outside of Hollywood, next to a ranch run by a family of black people who raise horses for use in movies. After the head of said family is killed by metal debris mysterious falling from the sky, Ricky figures out there's a literal flying saucer haunting the area and tries offering it horses he's bought from said family to try and coax it over to his park in hopes of making it an attraction. One day he gathers a large crowd (including this lady) to witness his new "sky lasso" attraction as he calls it. Unfortunately for him and everyone, the flying saucer is not an alien spaceship: it is some kind of carnivorous sky-jellyfish which proceeds to eat him and every other man, woman, and child in attendance.
Meanwhile, the two remaining members of the black horse rancher family, brother OJ and sister Em, recruit a conspiracy nut from Fry's Electronics and an eccentric cinematographer to try and take a photo of the creature in hope of getting on Oprah an thereby saving their failing ranch--this proves difficult, as it disables all electronics in its immediate vicinity. In the end, cinematographer lets himself get eaten, Fryboy survives by wrapping himself in barbwire, OJ creates a distraction to lead it away from his sister (possibly sacrificing himself--at the end she sees him on the horizon, but it's left ambiguous if she really sees him or she's just hallucinating his ghost), and Em gets a really bad photo of it by means of a novelty wishing well/photo booth at Ricky's park before killing it by tricking into eating a giant balloon of Ricky which pops inside of it, making it explode.
Would mean the people telling stories of surviving abductions are full of it
Like I dunno how the frick someone would survive this thing eating them. Even if it vomited you you'd fall like 100 feet and die that way.
What the hell would be the point of the government hiding the existence of amoebas in the sky? Why not cover up the existence of birds too? And in your mind why are they invisible to people on aircraft/spacecraft/telescopes?
They're still aliens even if they're not intelligent life and that cyclone stuff could frick a city up, additionally the government may be aware of the hostility to those who see them and may not want more people trying to see them. Additionally I got the impression the Planet is full of them and Jean Jacket was far from the only one, they're an invasive species.
i don't think the government hides the existence of it, i think there is a permanent intelligent apparatus that got grandfathered in after ww2 and the cold war that most people in government have no clue about (including the appointed heads of agencies and departments that in theory should directly oversee it) - and this loose group of lifers recruits likeminded individuals to perpetuate itself and they might be 2 generations in now - and they don't so much as hide it as ridicule it or obfuscate it with wild and crazy stories so that the matter itself is always clouded in a mystery of deception, uncertainty and confusion.
>why are they invisible to people
telescopes look far away - hard to image or focus on a plane or a bird with a telescope (just a hobby one) and professional astronomers operate at high elevation observatories aimed at deep space, there is also different types of astronomy - very little of it is just optical
aircraft and spacecraft mostly see using instrumentation geared towards radio transmission and detection, and more exotic man made objects use microwaves as well, visual or optical telemetry that is sky based is usually aimed at the ground, eg satellites and surveillance drones. the aerospace industry is tied heavily to the defense industry and shrouded in an existing veil of government and private NDA agreements, secrecy, and espionage with the associated frickery that comes with it.
Would mean the people telling stories of surviving abductions are full of it
Like I dunno how the frick someone would survive this thing eating them. Even if it vomited you you'd fall like 100 feet and die that way.
looking at the ufo literature with contactees and then later abductees there is no real credible story or witness. what is clear is a story emerges that has religious undertones and smacks of a manipulation by one person to find gullible people to worship them because they have special secret knowledge. they space brothers selected them and they are selecting you and together you will change the world etc.
stories like travis waltons abduction is fascinating. all the people involved were mormons, did you know that?
Yeah, the balloon part confuses me. A UFO being an animal rather than a space craft is a fun idea, and I think there's some interesting stuff going on about spectacle, nature, and people's desire to have a legacy, but killing the monster with a balloon is a weird call.
Didn't it also go against the logic that "it won't eat things with tassels anymore because the fake horse gave it a tummy ache?" IIRC the balloon was covered in identical tassels but the UFO suddenly stopped giving a shit.
but the balloon was a replica of the asian guy, with eyes. so i guess it just really malds when it sees a pair of eyes looking at it
or the simplest answer is previous logic thrown out the window in order to wrap up the storyline, like all peele films do
There's also a sort of galaxy-brain narrative symmetry going on here, because we find out the thing that set off Gordy the Chimp was the sound of a balloon popping from the heat of the stage lamps.
In other words, a balloon popping is what started the wild animal rampage at the beginning of the movie, and a balloon popping is what ends the wild animal rampage at the end of the movie.
What the hell would be the point of the government hiding the existence of amoebas in the sky? Why not cover up the existence of birds too? And in your mind why are they invisible to people on aircraft/spacecraft/telescopes?
They're in the clouds
2 years ago
Anonymous
did you also notice that the sea-creature from space dies from literal plastic in its throat? a really really big piece of litter?
What do you mean it was the best day of her life she got those nice soft gut massages it looked so nice in there
there were way too many other people in there screaming so the mood probably got ruined. how are you supposed to flick the bean and enjoy the thrill of becoming UFO-monster pudge when the guy next to you wont fricking shut up or stop crying for his mommy? real prey amateur hour ugh
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Eccentric cinematographer didn't scream after being eaten >Was the guy watching snakes eat mice
Hmmmmmm
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Got his impossible shot >Died knowing he got the footage >Got to be in UFO tummy alone
The White Guy wins again, Peele
I kind of get the balloon if the balloon is shaped like a person. The thing is an animal and it isn't a stretch of reason to thing the wild animal mistakes food with thing that shaped like it. As for why it explodes and not just chokes or dies from a messed up digestion I don't know.
What do you mean? A balloon that big wouldn't just poof out of existence if it popped. That air inside of it would escape violently. I was trying to find one of the many webms of people and animals getting fricked up by large tires or balloons popping in their faces to illustrate my point, but couldn't find any saved on my computer. You'll just have to take my word for it.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Wouldn't cause an explosion, just extreme internal bleeding as I already stated.
2 years ago
Anonymous
The alien wasnt shown to have blood, if anything an internal air sac or oxygen method keeps it afloat, the balloon either clogged or blocked the function from properly operating, the ayyy couldnt process the buildup and it popped.
Maybe the creature's own anatomy is flimsy and frail enough a balloon popping could destroy it? It doesn't seem to have anything like a skeleton, and its overall mass is probably pretty light (which is generally true of most airborne organisms). We even know it's possible to hear people screaming inside of it, so its "skin" and other membranes probably aren't much thicker than the balloon's.
Admittedly, this only raises the question of how something so weak it can get one-shotted by a balloon it is also so strong it can carry forty or more humans of varying shapes and sizes inside of it without rupturing or sinking from excess weight.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>it is also so strong it can carry forty or more humans of varying shapes and sizes inside of it without rupturing or sinking from excess weight.
Not to mention the horses probably kicking with metal shoes.
2 years ago
Anonymous
The balloon has more surface area to encompass the entire inner anatomy of the ayyy, plus ants can carry shit way bigger and heavier than them so its not so crazy that an ALIEN can suck up 40 small people that get grinded up all together than 1 huge balloon that it needs to absorb all at once.
>But it's left ambiguous if she really sees him or she's just hallucinating his ghost
Why do people keep saying this? Are you fricking moronic? Media illiteracy? It's very obvious that he's ok. The horse is moving after all. Also, he didn't sacrifice himself, the alien had no time to vore him and even if it did the horse had the rainbow flag wrapped around it's leg which we've already seen discourages the alien.
That's what their plan ultimately involves, using an old-fashioned IMAX camera. Unfortunately, the mad cinematographer gets himself (and the camera) eaten; which is why Em ultimately uses one of those novelty wishing wells that takes your picture.
>but it's left ambiguous if she really sees him or she's just hallucinating his ghost
Was she hallucinating at some point in the movie? Seems like a weird thing to doubt.
>but it's left ambiguous if she really sees him or she's just hallucinating his ghost
Was she hallucinating at some point in the movie? Seems like a weird thing to doubt.
Anon is being dumb. He is alive and well.
SHE was the one that did the sacrificing in the scene. They go into the idea of OJ training this horse called Jean Jacket. They call the ship Jean Jacket. She ends up "breaking" Jean Jacket. Thus completing her arc.
I think the important part was besides the chimp literally going ape, it specifically spared the asian kid and tried to do the fist bump it was trained to do. So even though he saw first hand how dangerous even "tamed" animals can be, the lesson didn't fully sink in, leading to him trying and failing to tame the alien.
you cant tell me that gordy scene had you shook. I've seen way scarier stuff but that scene was so tense and when the asian kid locked eyes with the kid i got chills.
my only conclusion with Peele is that he's using someone else's ideas as a base and then tries to make his own endings which are always dog shit
interesting premises ruined by poor payoff
This is a film about the relationship between entertainment and audience. Particularly how the two come to inform one another. Throughout this film, we are nailed over the head with images of potentially violent, not-necessarily tame-able beings being filmed. Gordy. The UAP. The director watching clips of predator and prey fighting. Being drawn to the allure of spectacle makes us part of it, it chips at the division between what we consume and what we are.
The most glaring example of this is Yeun and Gordy. Yeun notes that he and Gordy did the first ever "exploding fist-bump". Upon witnessing Gordy, to whom the humans thought had been tamed, made to be fit and safe for human consumption and viewership, snap and beat his co-stars horrendously, Yeun could still not distinguish his reality from entertainment. As Gordy came over to him, covered in blood, while Yeun hid beneath the table, he reaches out his hand -- seemingly to do the exploding fist bump with Yeun. Despite the context of the situation indicating that Gordy is clearly a violent, wild animal, Yeun reaches out his hand for the exploding fist bump. He cannot tell whether Gordy is a wild animal (whose actions he just bore witness to) or the character from the show. There is no division. Peele leaves this particularly ambiguous as Gordy is killed before contact can be made between the two. Was Gordy recalling his fondness for Yeun and reprising his character from the show, or was he reaching to hurt Yeun as part of his spree? We don't know. The line between entertainment and reality has fully blurred.
This byline is made apparent throughout the film. Yeun (older) at the Star lasso experience calls the alien "the viewers", a bit on the nose for Peele, but Yeun who was once an actor and lived through that traumatic experience, can not tell who considers who to be entertainment. Are the aliens watching the humans for entertainment? Or are the humans watching the aliens as part of the Star Lasso Experience? When we get lost in spectacle, we become part of it as we bear witness.
This is the point of not looking at the UAP. We break the cycle of a potentially dangerous feedback loop fueled by watching violent spectacle that shapes us, that directly informs what we desire to see. If we don't look, if we don't take part, we can control how we perceive things.That said, Peele provides meta-commentary in the shot in the diner to note that its hard to not have our attention drawn to spectacle. In a shot that is almost entirely comprised of our three main characters, we can see a fight in the background outside of the diner. Despite the situation at hand, we can't help but have our attention drawn to the fight outside. Even as viewers of this film we are somewhat helpless.
Finally, I think Peele makes the finest point of this with the director. Almost every shot of the director we see him, as third party, watching footage of predator fighting prey. When he desires the shot (and becomes what he warned of, he who seeks the dream where he is at the top of the mountain), the divide between viewer and entertainment is dissolved entirely. What he considered himself third party to, what he sought to capture, consumed him entirely, only for Angel to attempt to capture it on camera. At once we can go of he who consumes to he who is consumed.
All of this to say, I think the film was brilliant. To consume entertainment that bastardizes its subject is also to be consumed. What we view directly informs who we are, and who we are informs what is created and what there is to be viewed. It is easy to lose sight of this divide.
>We break the cycle of a potentially dangerous feedback loop fueled by watching violent spectacle that shapes us, that directly informs what we desire to see. If we don't look, if we don't take part, we can control how we perceive things.
I unironically agree. Watching gore kills your soul and allows demons to enter you.
except yuen gets immediately killed by the alien who was just eating shit cuz it was hungry. how hadn't it killed him before? if it was already eating tourists (their keys killed the guys dad) why hadn't it attacked the jupiters claim shows over 6 months? why hadn't yuen tried to advance the spectacle of a literal alien to more than a gimmick sideshow for 40 ppl? the whole yuen/gordy sideplot was weird, out of place, and unnecessary
It hadn't killed him before because he was feeding it horses that he was buying from the ranch. It was an anomaly that it arrived early on this particular night. >the whole yuen/gordy sideplot was weird, out of place, and unnecessary
I humbly disagree, good sir!
The alien wasn't known about yet so its assumed it merely fed on horses and no one thought anything of it, once word got out, Jupe had the attraction to summon it. Also I think it attacked the Jupiter's Claim group out of aggression, not hunger, Yeun was actively trying to draw attention to it so it took it as a threat and killed everyone. Notice how it was trying to kill OJ's group when they paid attention to it and tried to get its attention, it didnt give a shit about them prior since they left it alone.
>This is a film about the relationship between entertainment and audience
true, it shows how moronic people will really sit through and analyze complete dogshit if it's made by a black man
https://www.tiktok.com/@whysoserious420_/video/7123126313925446958?_t=8UCN6XwuDLa&_r=1
It cuts a bit early at the end. IIRC there's a few more seconds of the woman being pushed up before coming face to face with a half-digested something and screaming.
no?
wasn't that the fricking point
i just thought that somehow she'd be spared from a horrible vore death but 🙁 idk it made me sad.
someone spoil the movie for me
Nice origin story.
>they told me I was shit
>so shit is what I gave them
Cowboys vs. Ayyys
kek
it was just a parallel with the whole “respect the predator” thing or art or something idk, that movie was a mess
Chimps are foragers
In 1998, a child actor named Ricky "Jupe" Park costarred with a chimp named Gordy on a sitcom. One day, Gordy went nuts, killing and maiming much of the cast (including the woman in the op) but then calms down and tries to playfully fist-bump Ricky before being put down by the authorities.
In present day, Ricky owns a rickety wild west theme park just outside of Hollywood, next to a ranch run by a family of black people who raise horses for use in movies. After the head of said family is killed by metal debris mysterious falling from the sky, Ricky figures out there's a literal flying saucer haunting the area and tries offering it horses he's bought from said family to try and coax it over to his park in hopes of making it an attraction. One day he gathers a large crowd (including this lady) to witness his new "sky lasso" attraction as he calls it. Unfortunately for him and everyone, the flying saucer is not an alien spaceship: it is some kind of carnivorous sky-jellyfish which proceeds to eat him and every other man, woman, and child in attendance.
Meanwhile, the two remaining members of the black horse rancher family, brother OJ and sister Em, recruit a conspiracy nut from Fry's Electronics and an eccentric cinematographer to try and take a photo of the creature in hope of getting on Oprah an thereby saving their failing ranch--this proves difficult, as it disables all electronics in its immediate vicinity. In the end, cinematographer lets himself get eaten, Fryboy survives by wrapping himself in barbwire, OJ creates a distraction to lead it away from his sister (possibly sacrificing himself--at the end she sees him on the horizon, but it's left ambiguous if she really sees him or she's just hallucinating his ghost), and Em gets a really bad photo of it by means of a novelty wishing well/photo booth at Ricky's park before killing it by tricking into eating a giant balloon of Ricky which pops inside of it, making it explode.
based. this is probably what UFOs actually are. (things that live in the upper atmosphere)
Would mean the people telling stories of surviving abductions are full of it
Like I dunno how the frick someone would survive this thing eating them. Even if it vomited you you'd fall like 100 feet and die that way.
>Would mean the people telling stories of surviving abductions are full of it
Well duh, that and mental illness
Yes anon people who tell stories about magical and paranormal shit are making it up for attention. Good job realizing that as an adult
You're mentally moronic
What the hell would be the point of the government hiding the existence of amoebas in the sky? Why not cover up the existence of birds too? And in your mind why are they invisible to people on aircraft/spacecraft/telescopes?
They're still aliens even if they're not intelligent life and that cyclone stuff could frick a city up, additionally the government may be aware of the hostility to those who see them and may not want more people trying to see them. Additionally I got the impression the Planet is full of them and Jean Jacket was far from the only one, they're an invasive species.
i don't think the government hides the existence of it, i think there is a permanent intelligent apparatus that got grandfathered in after ww2 and the cold war that most people in government have no clue about (including the appointed heads of agencies and departments that in theory should directly oversee it) - and this loose group of lifers recruits likeminded individuals to perpetuate itself and they might be 2 generations in now - and they don't so much as hide it as ridicule it or obfuscate it with wild and crazy stories so that the matter itself is always clouded in a mystery of deception, uncertainty and confusion.
>why are they invisible to people
telescopes look far away - hard to image or focus on a plane or a bird with a telescope (just a hobby one) and professional astronomers operate at high elevation observatories aimed at deep space, there is also different types of astronomy - very little of it is just optical
aircraft and spacecraft mostly see using instrumentation geared towards radio transmission and detection, and more exotic man made objects use microwaves as well, visual or optical telemetry that is sky based is usually aimed at the ground, eg satellites and surveillance drones. the aerospace industry is tied heavily to the defense industry and shrouded in an existing veil of government and private NDA agreements, secrecy, and espionage with the associated frickery that comes with it.
looking at the ufo literature with contactees and then later abductees there is no real credible story or witness. what is clear is a story emerges that has religious undertones and smacks of a manipulation by one person to find gullible people to worship them because they have special secret knowledge. they space brothers selected them and they are selecting you and together you will change the world etc.
stories like travis waltons abduction is fascinating. all the people involved were mormons, did you know that?
Like ducks?
Yeah. Most UFO citing are birds whose distance and therefore speed were misidentified
sure, but im open to the possibility of more exotic unidentified creatures. like the jellyfish in the movie
sounds just like one of my Japanese anime's
>tricking into eating a giant balloon of Ricky which pops inside of it, making it explode
What the frick?
Honestly, I kinda suspect it's meant to be an homage to the exploding scuba tank from Jaws.
But that was the ingenuity of the white man, a black man would have just raped the shark after beating its eyes shut
Yeah, the balloon part confuses me. A UFO being an animal rather than a space craft is a fun idea, and I think there's some interesting stuff going on about spectacle, nature, and people's desire to have a legacy, but killing the monster with a balloon is a weird call.
Didn't it also go against the logic that "it won't eat things with tassels anymore because the fake horse gave it a tummy ache?" IIRC the balloon was covered in identical tassels but the UFO suddenly stopped giving a shit.
but the balloon was a replica of the asian guy, with eyes. so i guess it just really malds when it sees a pair of eyes looking at it
or the simplest answer is previous logic thrown out the window in order to wrap up the storyline, like all peele films do
Ohhh that poor UFO had a tummy ache
There's also a sort of galaxy-brain narrative symmetry going on here, because we find out the thing that set off Gordy the Chimp was the sound of a balloon popping from the heat of the stage lamps.
In other words, a balloon popping is what started the wild animal rampage at the beginning of the movie, and a balloon popping is what ends the wild animal rampage at the end of the movie.
Yea but that doesn’t really explain how a balloon managed to blow up a giant monster, does it
Oh wow, I didn't even think of that
They're in the clouds
did you also notice that the sea-creature from space dies from literal plastic in its throat? a really really big piece of litter?
there were way too many other people in there screaming so the mood probably got ruined. how are you supposed to flick the bean and enjoy the thrill of becoming UFO-monster pudge when the guy next to you wont fricking shut up or stop crying for his mommy? real prey amateur hour ugh
>Eccentric cinematographer didn't scream after being eaten
>Was the guy watching snakes eat mice
Hmmmmmm
>Got his impossible shot
>Died knowing he got the footage
>Got to be in UFO tummy alone
The White Guy wins again, Peele
He did scream when he was being sucked up.
I kind of get the balloon if the balloon is shaped like a person. The thing is an animal and it isn't a stretch of reason to thing the wild animal mistakes food with thing that shaped like it. As for why it explodes and not just chokes or dies from a messed up digestion I don't know.
What do you mean? A balloon that big wouldn't just poof out of existence if it popped. That air inside of it would escape violently. I was trying to find one of the many webms of people and animals getting fricked up by large tires or balloons popping in their faces to illustrate my point, but couldn't find any saved on my computer. You'll just have to take my word for it.
Wouldn't cause an explosion, just extreme internal bleeding as I already stated.
The alien wasnt shown to have blood, if anything an internal air sac or oxygen method keeps it afloat, the balloon either clogged or blocked the function from properly operating, the ayyy couldnt process the buildup and it popped.
Maybe the creature's own anatomy is flimsy and frail enough a balloon popping could destroy it? It doesn't seem to have anything like a skeleton, and its overall mass is probably pretty light (which is generally true of most airborne organisms). We even know it's possible to hear people screaming inside of it, so its "skin" and other membranes probably aren't much thicker than the balloon's.
Admittedly, this only raises the question of how something so weak it can get one-shotted by a balloon it is also so strong it can carry forty or more humans of varying shapes and sizes inside of it without rupturing or sinking from excess weight.
>it is also so strong it can carry forty or more humans of varying shapes and sizes inside of it without rupturing or sinking from excess weight.
Not to mention the horses probably kicking with metal shoes.
The balloon has more surface area to encompass the entire inner anatomy of the ayyy, plus ants can carry shit way bigger and heavier than them so its not so crazy that an ALIEN can suck up 40 small people that get grinded up all together than 1 huge balloon that it needs to absorb all at once.
You do know your stomach can rupture if its clogged too much right?
The chimp sounds like a metaphor for black people in general
Peele confirmed it was, but not racistly
Where?
Sounds terrible and stupid
ok so whats the hamfisted metaphor here
white people are the alien, eating and killing everything
BIPOC are the humans, struggling to survive but fighting back
>The blood spewing on the house was the UFO's way of buck breaking
Ummm sweaty? Open your eyes
WYPIPO BE GIANT SPACE JELLYFISH SUCKIN UP KANGS AND BREAKING DEY CAMERAS
>But it's left ambiguous if she really sees him or she's just hallucinating his ghost
Why do people keep saying this? Are you fricking moronic? Media illiteracy? It's very obvious that he's ok. The horse is moving after all. Also, he didn't sacrifice himself, the alien had no time to vore him and even if it did the horse had the rainbow flag wrapped around it's leg which we've already seen discourages the alien.
Sounds like the whole metaphor is just that that America (and Hollywood) loves violence and profiting off said violence.
Stupid as frick.
>this proves difficult, as it disables all electronics in its immediate vicinity
Why didn't they just use a mechanical film camera?
That's what their plan ultimately involves, using an old-fashioned IMAX camera. Unfortunately, the mad cinematographer gets himself (and the camera) eaten; which is why Em ultimately uses one of those novelty wishing wells that takes your picture.
why didnt they just shoot it lol
I honestly can't even tell if this is really what it's about or this is an entire fanfic.
That's how fricking stupid movies are these days.
>talks shit about good, original movie
>posts animu shit
Perfect.
because they want to take a picture of it alive???
They did dummy
The metaphor is literally said by Keith David in a flash back "Some animals cannot be tammed"
its for you to put a gun in your mouth and pull the trigger
he did not.
>Perfect.
>doesn't know what I'm referencing and how it ties into the conversation
>proceeds to make himself look like a moron
Perfect.
>but it's left ambiguous if she really sees him or she's just hallucinating his ghost
Was she hallucinating at some point in the movie? Seems like a weird thing to doubt.
Anon is being dumb. He is alive and well.
SHE was the one that did the sacrificing in the scene. They go into the idea of OJ training this horse called Jean Jacket. They call the ship Jean Jacket. She ends up "breaking" Jean Jacket. Thus completing her arc.
Theyre both alive and fine.
What was the point of these characters and their subplot flashback with the monkey?
Something something animal exploitation like the saucer monster
I think the important part was besides the chimp literally going ape, it specifically spared the asian kid and tried to do the fist bump it was trained to do. So even though he saw first hand how dangerous even "tamed" animals can be, the lesson didn't fully sink in, leading to him trying and failing to tame the alien.
She did deserve a nice UFO gut massage uwu
Also, during the chimp scene, a shoe lands funny and nobody knows what it means.
Anyone have a rip/webm of that scene inside of the saucer asking for a friend haha
Imagine getting your face ripped off by a chimp being the 2nd worst day of your life lmao
What do you mean it was the best day of her life she got those nice soft gut massages it looked so nice in there
scp-312
yeah some zoomer intern probably read it and gave the idea to peele
>1 alium
>Uhhh, hey.
>2 aliums
>NOPE
you cant tell me that gordy scene had you shook. I've seen way scarier stuff but that scene was so tense and when the asian kid locked eyes with the kid i got chills.
the rest of the movie was meh though
Nope
my only conclusion with Peele is that he's using someone else's ideas as a base and then tries to make his own endings which are always dog shit
interesting premises ruined by poor payoff
This is a film about the relationship between entertainment and audience. Particularly how the two come to inform one another. Throughout this film, we are nailed over the head with images of potentially violent, not-necessarily tame-able beings being filmed. Gordy. The UAP. The director watching clips of predator and prey fighting. Being drawn to the allure of spectacle makes us part of it, it chips at the division between what we consume and what we are.
The most glaring example of this is Yeun and Gordy. Yeun notes that he and Gordy did the first ever "exploding fist-bump". Upon witnessing Gordy, to whom the humans thought had been tamed, made to be fit and safe for human consumption and viewership, snap and beat his co-stars horrendously, Yeun could still not distinguish his reality from entertainment. As Gordy came over to him, covered in blood, while Yeun hid beneath the table, he reaches out his hand -- seemingly to do the exploding fist bump with Yeun. Despite the context of the situation indicating that Gordy is clearly a violent, wild animal, Yeun reaches out his hand for the exploding fist bump. He cannot tell whether Gordy is a wild animal (whose actions he just bore witness to) or the character from the show. There is no division. Peele leaves this particularly ambiguous as Gordy is killed before contact can be made between the two. Was Gordy recalling his fondness for Yeun and reprising his character from the show, or was he reaching to hurt Yeun as part of his spree? We don't know. The line between entertainment and reality has fully blurred.
This byline is made apparent throughout the film. Yeun (older) at the Star lasso experience calls the alien "the viewers", a bit on the nose for Peele, but Yeun who was once an actor and lived through that traumatic experience, can not tell who considers who to be entertainment. Are the aliens watching the humans for entertainment? Or are the humans watching the aliens as part of the Star Lasso Experience? When we get lost in spectacle, we become part of it as we bear witness.
This is the point of not looking at the UAP. We break the cycle of a potentially dangerous feedback loop fueled by watching violent spectacle that shapes us, that directly informs what we desire to see. If we don't look, if we don't take part, we can control how we perceive things.That said, Peele provides meta-commentary in the shot in the diner to note that its hard to not have our attention drawn to spectacle. In a shot that is almost entirely comprised of our three main characters, we can see a fight in the background outside of the diner. Despite the situation at hand, we can't help but have our attention drawn to the fight outside. Even as viewers of this film we are somewhat helpless.
Finally, I think Peele makes the finest point of this with the director. Almost every shot of the director we see him, as third party, watching footage of predator fighting prey. When he desires the shot (and becomes what he warned of, he who seeks the dream where he is at the top of the mountain), the divide between viewer and entertainment is dissolved entirely. What he considered himself third party to, what he sought to capture, consumed him entirely, only for Angel to attempt to capture it on camera. At once we can go of he who consumes to he who is consumed.
All of this to say, I think the film was brilliant. To consume entertainment that bastardizes its subject is also to be consumed. What we view directly informs who we are, and who we are informs what is created and what there is to be viewed. It is easy to lose sight of this divide.
Stole this from Reddit. Thoughts?
>We break the cycle of a potentially dangerous feedback loop fueled by watching violent spectacle that shapes us, that directly informs what we desire to see. If we don't look, if we don't take part, we can control how we perceive things.
I unironically agree. Watching gore kills your soul and allows demons to enter you.
except yuen gets immediately killed by the alien who was just eating shit cuz it was hungry. how hadn't it killed him before? if it was already eating tourists (their keys killed the guys dad) why hadn't it attacked the jupiters claim shows over 6 months? why hadn't yuen tried to advance the spectacle of a literal alien to more than a gimmick sideshow for 40 ppl? the whole yuen/gordy sideplot was weird, out of place, and unnecessary
It hadn't killed him before because he was feeding it horses that he was buying from the ranch. It was an anomaly that it arrived early on this particular night.
>the whole yuen/gordy sideplot was weird, out of place, and unnecessary
I humbly disagree, good sir!
but he would have been looking at it while feeding it the horses thus triggering its sperg factor
The alien wasn't known about yet so its assumed it merely fed on horses and no one thought anything of it, once word got out, Jupe had the attraction to summon it. Also I think it attacked the Jupiter's Claim group out of aggression, not hunger, Yeun was actively trying to draw attention to it so it took it as a threat and killed everyone. Notice how it was trying to kill OJ's group when they paid attention to it and tried to get its attention, it didnt give a shit about them prior since they left it alone.
>This is a film about the relationship between entertainment and audience
true, it shows how moronic people will really sit through and analyze complete dogshit if it's made by a black man
Just like David Lynch.
>tfw no black David Lynch to make the ghetto version of Twin Peaks
no one likes you. it is within your power to change that, but you wont, because your soul is dogshit now.
have a nice day
Not before the white race disappears homosexual.
It already did, and you're not even white.
>you're not even white.
thank god
What's with her face?
A Chimpanzee put that white b***h in her place
peele stealing from white people yet again
Any video/webm of them getting eaten?
give it few weeks
https://www.tiktok.com/@whysoserious420_/video/7123126313925446958?_t=8UCN6XwuDLa&_r=1
It cuts a bit early at the end. IIRC there's a few more seconds of the woman being pushed up before coming face to face with a half-digested something and screaming.