Maybe it’s because I have a daughter on the way, but this pressed all of my buttons. That part at :43 when her dad’s losing it in the stands as she spots him and “Very good, Serena Williams” is touching. Well done, Nike.
Maybe it’s because I have a daughter on the way, but this pressed all of my buttons. That part at :43 when her dad’s losing it in the stands as she spots him and “Very good, Serena Williams” is touching. Well done, Nike.
To call Sorry to Bother You “this year’s Get Out” is somewhat accurate, but also reductive. Similar to Jordan Peele’s cult-turned-critically acclaimed classic, it deals with race and what the Black man experiences in a dynamic way. But there’s more at play here.
This film truly is a sci-fi dark comedy that also functions as a conversation starter about the idea of capitalism. It asks: How far will one man and his job’s CEO go to make a dollar? I loved this movie for director Boots Riley’s perspective, so much so that I wish I hadn’t seen it alone. It would have been better to catch it with a bunch of friends and then talk it through my thoughts over food and drinks.
When I first saw the trailer (which not once hints at all the wild hell that breaks loose around the two-thirds mark of the movie), I thought this was simply going to be a funny flick about code-switching and a Black guy doing what it takes to be successful in a racist world. Having a “Black” voice, and all it suggests is typically not a good thing in the business world. Sorry to Bother You tackles that and much more.
A couple of things I thought about while at the theater watching Sorry to Bother You (NO SPOILERS):
Go see it! I want people to be talking about this through awards season.