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So Nope is the new Jordan Peele movie and I thought it was pretty outstanding. Really fun movie with some positively gripping scenes. I recommend folks check it out if you've been into Jordan Peele's movies!

Every character in this movie was great. It's such a cast where they're all just really interesting. Granted, it's a small cast because pandemic, but everyone killed it. Daniel Kaluuya has such a great understated performance and Keke Palmer has a ton of awesome energy she brings to the film. She's always been a highlight of anything she's in. Stephen Yeun was a major part of why I liked the movie so much though--his character was so strange but perfect.

It's also a gorgeous film. The cinematography is outstanding and so many choices and directions they went with it make it such a visually striking film. You just remember so much of it just because of the visuals, and they all have a purpose. The plot simply works and it isn't complicated. It's a totally fresh take on this genre and I love how it ended up going down. It's a film that also has a lot of questions answered, but a lot of them not told to you outright. You put the pieces together to really get it. Oh, and it's pretty funny too at times.

So that takes me to spoilers.

Yo fuck that monkey tho. Somehow I thought the monkey was the scariest part of this movie. But the alien/UFO was positively horrifying when they needed it to be. When you learn about the nature of how it works and what happens when they get sucked up, good lord is it ever a nightmare. It stops being as terrifying when they do figure it out, however, and I think that's fair since the entire movie shifts from horror to action-thriller.

I just need to talk about Stephen Yeun's character for a while though. I fucking love this character. He comes across as such an aloof weirdo, and his part of the film seems pretty disconnected, but it makes so much sense. He's this child actor still trying to catch his glory days and make it big. He is obsessed with his old movie he was in, and then obsessed with his TV show with the monkey as the focal character. And that monkey fucking gruesomely mauls and probably kills some people. But the way he recounts it is some completely demented shit. He has a shrine to that show, and then the way he describes it is so bizarre. He fondly remembers the whole scene like an SNL skit. He talks about how Chris Kattan of all people absolutely kills it as the murderous monkey. Like the dude just recounts this nightmarish scene like it's the best day of his life.

And then he sees another creature he can get fame off of. In the monkey's final moments, he fist bumps him. So he has shoved all of that terrible trauma down and instead capitalized on it all for the meager fame he has. He has his mauled co-star there to shill her even. And so when he tries to use the UFO for his own gain to control it, it absolutely backfires on him and does him in.

I also really enjoy the creative stuff they do with the film. The visuals of the little banner floating off of the UFO, the inflatable tube men, the blood rain, "I wear my sunglasses at night", the tube in which the UFO eats things, the noise the UFO makes, the bloody monkey, whatever the fuck the UFO turns into towards the end. All just stuff that will stick with me.

Awesome film overall though. Super creative and enjoyable.