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Being seen can make you rageful

Being seen can make you feel loved

Being seen can be about exploitation

Being seen can be about understanding but not intruding

Being seen can be both the most wonderful and most horrifying thing to ever happen to you, and it all depends on who sees you

Nope has caused a physical shift somewhere deep in my soul and I am not ok

OK, so.

I have rewatched Nope in a quiet room with no interupptions as God (Jordan peele) intended and I have some new opinions on some characters specifically Jupe so buckle up motherfuckers cause this is all I'm going to talk about for quite awhile!

The first time I watched the movie I hated Jupe and thought he was a egotistical moron who doomed himself and everyone he loved for another chance at fame but on the second rewatch I realized that I felt nothing but pity for him.

Jupe was a traumatized child til the very end and was never able to move on from the Gordy's home incident. He had to believe he was chosen or special because if he didn't then that meant he survived unscathed for no reason other then a tablecloth and and good timing and that truly would have broken him more then the truma ever could.

From that point on that was all he was because he could never move past it to the point where he got all the pieces of his personality and brand from before the Gordy incident, because he genuinely did not know how to move away from it, so he just...didn't. He recycled these pre written parts from his past to be his future, the western theme and the over the top cowboy persona, for God's sake the costumes his kids wore were just old camera reels on monkey bodies (a detail I never would have pieced together with scrolling through the nope tag)

The parallels between childhood Jupe looking at Gordy through the tablecloth to adult jupe looking at Jean Jacket was the final moment where I decided he wasn't a character meant to be hated, he's a character meant to be pitited. He has always been a scared kid both outrunning his past and chasing it in this never ending cycle who finally found out that he wasn't chosen or special or magic. He was saved by a table cloth once, but once was all he got.

I just watched Jordan peele's nope for the first time tonight and the longer I have thought about it the deeper I love I am falling. It's a western horror reverse horse girl movie with what is most certainly the most graphic and disturbing vore scene that has ever been filmed as well as a social commentary about the abuse and down right neglect that animals and poc have faced in the film industry since the literal beginning of film. I am watching again tomorrow alone and with a much closer eye to find what I have most certainly missed