Nope: Let’s Unpack Jordan Peele’s Wild Ending

This post contains major spoilers for Nope. The party line about Nope, Jordan Peele’s latest cipher-laden horror story, is that it’s a story about spectacles. People love spectacles, but can be driven down by them, devoured by them. Peele nods to this capacity for destruction at the start of the film, opening it with the Bible verse Nahum 3:6: “And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a spectacle.” For the next two hours and 11 minutes, the film makes good on this dark prophecy. In Nope, siblings OJ (a transfixing… Read Full Article