Jordan Peele

While my dad and I were watching Nope for the first time tonight, we were constantly talking about theories on what it meant.

One thing we really focused on was the moral of ethical treatment of animals in the film industry. I think this is pretty common, considering the first scene with the black horse causing trouble and kicking from not being treated with respect, or the chimp going crazy from the stage environment, or Jupe treating Jean Jacket as a part of his show. We saw how Em, OJ, and Angel treated Jean Jacket with "respect" and survived.

However, one thing my dad saw was surprising to me. He stopped the movie at the shot of Jean Jacket from down in the well camera at the end of the movie, as well as the successful photo at the end. He said that the photo looked like an animation cel. Like, since the well was cartoony looking and the sky in the shot was very painting-like, he thought it looked like a classic Disney or loony tunes animation cel.

Thus, his theory was that this is to show that if you can't respect dangerous animals and know their rules, you should just use CGI (animation) instead. What do you all think?