Nope？Not on Planet Earth！

A new work of Jordan Peele, I can't wait to watch.Frankly, the film is much better than the trailer.Actually, I am not that excited about the film after watching the trailer. So when I watch the film, I feel that it doesn't seem to be a bad movie.I won't spoil, you can watch the film yourself.The director wants to show audiences many things. Plus, he always cares about topics of black people, as he is a black man.At this point, I think the film makes it, because I feel like I am watching a condensed history of black people.

The film reproduces the history of the world's first set of motion shots.Back then, people debate whether a horse keeps its four legs off the ground simultaneously when it is running.An English photographer Eadweard James Muybridge took a group of shots of The Horse In Motion in 1878. He is a white people.He never expects that this group of shots would later be the sign of beginning of films.

However, it is this group of shots that suffers humiliations later. Because its name only refers to The Horse, no horseman.People selectively remember something, but selectively forget as well.It has been normal that black people are nameless in history for a long time.Then, The Horse is changed to The Horse and Man In Motion, driven by the idea of equal rights.

The film is all about reproducing the event of The Horse of the year, including all we can watch. The horseman symbolizes all people who participated in historical events, but were regarded as invisible by history.Peele completes an artistic manifesto for black people with the film, which is romantic and radical.

However, compared to the dramatic narrative of Akira Kurosawa and the circular narrative of Quentin Tarantino, Peele could only separate those complex stories. He gives them subtitles, and narrates paragraph by paragraph, like writing a report.He fails to create a groundbreaking story, or portray a character who could be remembered in the film history.He just shoots a charade in a film form, to express all metaphors. Yes, the charade is designed carefully by him, and he himself thinks it is exquisite.Both the story and the characters are reduced to the director's bluff.Therefore, some audiences say that I cannot get many metaphors of the director, when they finish watching the movie and out of the cinema.I don't think it's a compliment to the film.

Except that, I think the movie is okay.It is more valuable about some Peele's views on aliens.Can humans communicate or resonate with aliens? The film tells us not to look at them.The film uses Gordy as a hint. Although animals have been domesticated, they can also go crazy. Alien creatures are similar to lions which are hunting in the wild, you would be its prey once you look at them.We can hold the point that the aliens are evil in Peele's eyes.The title also echoes with Hawking's words: "Nope, don't communicate with aliens."Nope, the name of the film, is actually the abbreviation of Not on Planet Earth.

Humans can imagine aliens and turn them into commodities and peripheral products without actually seeing them.The film satirizes that the film industry makes profits through prolonging intellectual property rights. Many film-related derivatives and licensed products are developed in the industry, so that commercial myths are made by earning money through the permit of developing derivatives.Consumers become more and more blind, while capitalists obtain profits from it.

As for the fifth chapter and the end, they pay a tribute to an iconic scene in The Great Dictator played by Charles Chaplin, a comedy master. That scene is where the actor is playing an Earth balloon, while it suddenly blows out.Chaplin made satires of Nazis and Hitler at a time when Nazism was rampant in Europe.Nowadays, capital rampages all over the world, exacerbating the disparity between the rich and the poor, as well as the class contradictions.Learned from Chaplin, Peele implies that capitalism will eventually destroy itself, or be terminated by the lower class, with the design of the balloon and the blasting of the balloon.

If you are interested in unknown creatures, you maybe like this movie. Although the ending is absurd to some extent, it is not difficult to understand its profound meaning.