I HAVE FORMULATED AN ORIGINAL NOPE (2022) THOUGHT. em says training jean jacket was her birthright- and the film ends with her being the one to tame jean jacket (the viewer) by taking a picture of it and fulfilling her birthright. the film makes it clear that surveillance, observing and recording = taming and ownership. gordy is seen as tame because he is a recorded tv character. lucky doing the commercial is seen as tame because he’s being recorded and observed. and in the instances of gordy and lucky, it backfired on the observer, but not for em, because she knows to respect the animal and show deference to it, even while breaking it. because she’s a haywood, because it’s her family’s legacy, because it’s her birthright