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Jordan Peele’s Nope doesn’t embrace easy answers or movie explainers - Polygon
Some of Nope’s enigmas are better left unsolved ‘End of Nope explained’ thinkpieces may sort out some of the details, but it’s fundamentally about the unknowable The alien invasion thriller Nope is likely to leave viewers walking out of the theater with their phones in hand, Googling movie explainers and looking for answers about what they just saw. Jordan Peele’s follow-up to Get Out and Us veers back and forth between taut horror, sci-fi action, and sprawling character study, and its widely varying pace and puzzle-box approach put a lot of pieces on the board that it expects viewers to assemble for themselves. Some of those questions have answers, for viewers willing to put the pieces together and apply some inference and deductive reasoning. But others don’t, and that’s one of the movie’s most central and significant ideas. Peele goes out of his way to leave blanks that viewers will have to either fill in for themselves or just embrace as mysteries, and accepting the unknown as...
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