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[Tommy]

And if so, what difference does this potentially make to the story? Ricky seems to remember it well enough and it definitely happened as evidenced by the memorabilia room and the veiled former actress. So if he is an unreliable narrator, which we really only get the story through those flashbacks and the story Ricky tells about the SNL skit, what does that mean for the story? It seems like something is just out of reach of understanding. I like that Peele is not answering specifically about it.

And Martin, Where the Crawdads Sing showed up at my local theater today but it was our 12 year anniversary and we couldn't work a movie into the day but hopefully it's still there next week because I want to see it. Thanks for alerting me to it!

[dannyboy121070]

I generally don't like to put such deep thought into movie-watching. so I don't usually go into the "The guy with red hair was a metaphor for the way the Irish were mistreated when the came to America!" deep-dives, especially since I think most movie dissections like that are total BS, but this film was just fraught with things that I didn't connect upon my first viewing, so, yes, I would love to see it again, especially in a uncut version at Peele's original running time. I've been reading some articles about the film and interviews with Peele lately, and he seems to never want to comment on why the shoe was standing on end. Maybe it was to show that Ricky was an unreliable narrator...?

[Tommy]

I may very well have missed something, but I didn't get the impression that the shoe was used as a weapon. I figured it just flew off her foot. I think Gordy just beat them to death with his hands, since they were literally dripping blood during the fist-bump.

No you didn't miss anything, I did. The shoe was not a weapon Gordy used. I went looking for an answer and haven't found anything really amazing with regards to the shoe other than during the massacre the boy sees a strange site that defies gravity or maybe he misremembered in the horror of the moment? Not a lot but, looking it up I see now that the mother in the sitcom was an astronaut and the sitcom was set in Cape Canaveral where The Challenger disaster occurred. Both things leading back to space and in the case of The Challenger, the first disaster I can remember seeing because I was home sick from school that day and I was young but I remember. Some folks feel sympathy for Ricky and find him to be a tragic character. That is interesting and something to think about as well because he was warped by the acting system that child actors go through and then abandoned by it. This leads to the idea that abused people abuse others and so forth. I kind of want to watch it again now.

[dannyboy121070]

I may very well have missed something, but I didn't get the impression that the shoe was used as a weapon. I figured it just flew off her foot. I think Gordy just beat them to death with his hands, since they were literally dripping blood during the fist-bump.

[Tommy]

Yeah, I’ve got to agree, you got a lot more out of it than I did!

Guess I need to cut down on the vodka I sneak into the movies.

Good points - the cinematography & sound we’re very good.
NOPE is definitely a movie that needs to be seen in the theater, IMO, if you are going to see it.

The acting was good, especially the actors that played the brother & sister. Angel provided some well timed comic relief, and it was good to see Michael Wincott working again.

Lesser points - I was just kind of underwhelmed with the story. Maybe my expectations were too high going in, but I was just expecting more from the storyline.

One question, if any body can answer it: what was up with the vertical slipper/shoe in the Gordy scene?

B

We wondered about that as well. Other than it being the killing weapon and resting in a weird position? I don't know. The fact that the man put it in his private collection of memorabilia is ghoulish.