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Nope 2022
ok had time to accumulate thoughts on this. I think peele gets miscalibrated as a genre director; he is, but he’s not really focused on horror or comedy, and instead aims for iterations on early-mid 2010’s indie aesthetics. When he cuts, how he integrates title cards and needle drops, really evoke some of the a24-core shit, which is really interesting, because he’s maybe the first ‘auteur’ filmmaker to identify those formal tendencies as ‘genre’ elements and employ them in a…