Perhaps among all the snobbery that can be heard in the increasingly extensive cinematographic conversation, one of the ones that, personally, irritates me the most, is that of “elevated terror”. A label that, in my humble opinion, and as I expressed a season ago, is nothing more than a kind of justification for those who repudiate the genre and that, somehow, they are ashamed to enjoy it.
With feet on the ground
Along with filmmakers like Robert Eggers and Ari Aster, whose ‘The Witch’ and ‘Hereditary’ were two of the great promoters of the term, jordan peele he is among one of the biggest unwitting representatives of this false current. His fantastic ‘Let me out’ and ‘We’ they already carried the sanbenito of elevation due, in part, to their intelligent speeches; something that was repeated again with ‘Nop’.
But Peele has had enough. Having struggled with the label since his big screen debut, the filmmaker has definitively disowned him during an interview with The Verge; and he has done it this way.
“I don’t want people to think that I’m trying to make ‘elevated’ movies. I think it’s a trap that I don’t appreciate too much because, you know, I like to make f*cking movies. I like to make weird movies that I really shouldn’t do, and sometimes also challenging people on the other side of things.
For its part, Keke Palmerco-star of ‘Nop’, also contributed his point of view on the subject.
“The thing about his films is that the observations are so shocking that I think they leave people doubled over. And we’re the ones who come to the theater and walk out like, ‘I want to take this observation and know what to do with it.’ [Ese sentimiento] it challenges me; he puts me to work because I know that when Jordan creates his movies and makes his art, it’s based on something that he felt.”
Either elevated or earthlyLet us hope that Mr. Peele continues to work terror as he has done up to now.