There is a contradiction of sorts to what Detroit preaches and what she wants to become and Thompson has to allow Detroit to skirt this line without allowing the character to become ironic and therefore someone to be laughed at. Tessa Thompson is electric as Cassius' fiancï¿ 1/2 (C)e Detroit (her father wanted her to have a real American name) who gets her own storyline that mimics Cassius' in a way that doesn't completely alleviate her from her criticisms she tosses at Cassius as he moves up in the telemarketing realm. Lakeith Stanfield is fantastic as our protagonist Cassius Green (cash is green?) as he grounds this aforementioned surreal reality he exists within in a way that allows we as audience members to have something to grasp onto as we're taken through this unpredictable bit of statement entertainment. Rather, "Sorry to Bother You" is as if a Paul Thomas Anderson film were flushed through a Spike Lee filter and then stitched together by someone like Charlie Kaufman which is to not only say that it's bonkers, but that it is a lot of fun and relentlessly engaging and-maybe most importantly-consistently funny. This crazy ass evolution of the story could also be seen more metaphorically than as a literal way to say America is always sacrificing individuals and/or certain demographics for the sake of profit, but as the movie pretty much admits it seems it's meant to be that of a literal analysis.Īs much as "Sorry to Bother You" is about some heavy-handed topics and touts a plethora of big ideas it is also a movie that doesn't hit its audience over the head with just how important these issues are and how serious the audience should take them. Given where "Sorry to Bother You" goes and the actions that occur within this company run by Armie Hammer's coke-snorting maniac Steve Lift known as Worry Free Riley is posing that as crazy as what this corporation is doing seems if our society were to become conditioned to such expectations there wouldn't be a second thought given to it. It is beyond evident that the guy has an objective and something to say that he wants to communicate in an effective and aesthetically pleasing way, but when you get down to it and clear away all of these facets that give off this impression of being just batshit crazy what is it that Riley really wants to spark a conversation around? By the time the film came to an end it seemed it was this idea as phrased by a line in the movie that goes, "if you're shown a problem and have no idea how to solve it, you just get used to the problem" that really cuts to the heart of it all. While watching "Sorry to Bother You" I couldn't help but to come to concentrate on what Riley's thesis must have been for this piece. It's probably going to be divisive movie, but for me I was surprisingly with it. It doesn't all work, some of it hits the nail on the head a little too hard and some moments (especially the final moments, literally the last seconds of the film) seem more for shock value than anything else, but it's more hits than misses. It's so wildly original too, that I genuinely had no idea where it was going to go, and my predictions were usually wrong. ![]() There's an anarchic energy to the whole movie that never ends even in it's most banal moments so that even when it truly goes bonkers, it never seemed too out of the ordinary to the films world for me. Personally, I was surprisingly willing to be along for the ride. ![]() This movie is godamn wild, and it takes several turns (especially in it's final act) that you're either going to go with or going to be incredibly turned off by. The trailers to this movie led me to believe it would be sort of a dark comedy with some social commentary, and yeah, that's definitely part of it, but damn is that only PART of it.
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