Genres are not just there to show fantastic images and take us into strange worlds. Genres can be cleverly combined to create brilliant stories full of questions about humanity. Because here meets supernatural entertainment on opportunities for meta-commentary and suspense that clever directors use just as cleverly.
Currently, hardly anyone proves this as skillfully as Jordan Peele latest masterpiece Nope you can stream with a subscription on Amazon Prime from today. With Nope, Peele once again flexes his directorial and narrative muscles and really keeps you on the edge of your seat until the last moment.
In the sci-fi film, Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer are confronted with horrific events
As a strong team, Otis (Daniel Kaluuya) and Jill (Keke Palmer) pursue a very special career: They train horses on their ranch for use in films. Your animals become Hollywood stars in their own way. But their routine is about to be violently disrupted.
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Daniel Kaluuya in Nope
One day something is literally brewing over the skies of the ranch and her hometown. Strange sightings make the rounds and terrify everyone. And what we saw for the first time is just a foretaste of what is to come. Because it shouldn’t just be scary images.
Soon the ranch’s horses begin to disappear and there is even blood. Otis and Jill stuck in a nightmare and have to get to the bottom of the cause of the terrible events if they want to wake up again at some point.
Nope on Amazon Prime is a masterpiece of suspense that surprises right up to the last second
Jordan Peele has already made a name for himself with his two previous films, the Oscar-winning Get Out and the much-discussed We, a name as an innovative horror director made. Nope also impressed and for many was one of the best sci-fi films of 2022: on Rotten Tomatoes it shares the winner’s podium with Everything Everywhere All at Once and Prey. And in the Moviepilot editorial team it is ranked second among the best films of 2022.
There’s a good reason for that: Jordan Peele wouldn’t be Jordan Peele if he didn’t include at least three narrative loops and hooks in Nope. Peele never allows himself to drift into clichés or tell conventional stories. He is constantly reinventing his genre – in this case the brilliant combination of horror and sci-fi surprisingly funny, but also shocking and smart.
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Nope
Anyone who thinks after a while that they can predict anything in this visual masterpiece is usually wrong. Peele will take care of that. He can’t be fully grasped until the last second. The tension never lets up. Kaluuya and Palmer do the rest to force us to excitedly bite our fingernails. And when Peele’s meta-comments hit, we remember: That’s what cinema is made for.
Anyone who wants to get to the bottom of Nope’s secrets can do so starting today with a streaming subscription on Amazon Prime.
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