Nope

One of my favorite things about Nope is how Jordan Peele uses symbolism throughout the film:One of the biggest symbols of the film is your eyes or looking at something. Eyes are used as a symbol to convey Peele’s theme that he’s going for in Nope of lust & greed and people in nowadays society glorifying and mesmerizing over the dread and terrors that are in our society.There are two specific instances where this symbol is used so beautifully:At the beginning of the film Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer’s father is killed by falling objects from what was thought to be a plane crash and by the most unlikely chance a coin went through his eye and head and killed him.This money went through his eye and killed him seconds after he talked to Kaluuya’s character about the necessity of them to keep training & selling horses and continuing to make sales for their company.Truly just such a poetic way to get the theme across of people being so mesmerized and trying to lust after money. The second beautiful example of this is how OJ and Emerald interact with UFO.OJ knows to look away, he’s not drowning & mesmerized by what’s out there, whereas Emerald tries her best not to look but she ultimately ends up looking at it, which expands how OJ doesn’t get into the greed where Emerald does and this is perfectly exemplifies their characters. Emerald is much more in tune with the day-to-day society whereas OJ is not.So the symbol here with their eyes is that OJ averting his eyes and not looking at the UFO as Emerald does, perfectly explains their characters and the way they handle greed and society.