{"id":22278,"date":"2018-11-05T10:42:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T00:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=22278"},"modified":"2018-11-26T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T13:30:00","slug":"sorry-to-bother-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=22278","title":{"rendered":"Sorry To Bother You"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Director:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Boots Riley
\nWriter:\u00a0 <\/strong>Boots Riley
\nCast:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Terry Crews, Patton Oswalt, Steven Yuen<\/p>\n

S<\/em><\/span>orry To Bother You<\/em> is the antithesis of\u00a0The Wolf of Wall Street<\/em>.\u00a0 Both films are about the American Dream and how a person who claws their way to the top becomes corrupted by money.<\/p>\n

But whereas\u00a0The Wolf of Wall Street\u00a0<\/em>is a three hour film that revels in the pleasures of extravagant wealth and then shows a tiny sliver of contrition in the last five minutes,\u00a0Sorry To Bother You\u00a0<\/em>is disgusted<\/em> by the wealthy.\u00a0 It doesn’t go through the rigmarole of showing an enviable side to extreme wealth.\u00a0 They are straight up shown to be morally bankrupt, awful and irredeemable people who are vacuous, racist and devoid of humanity.<\/p>\n

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Lakeith Stanfield (Get Out, Selma, Atlanta<\/em>) plays Cassius Green, a down and out nobody who lives in his Uncles garage and is in desperate need of a job.\u00a0 He forges his accomplishments on his CV and conjures up a fake trophy as he goes to a job interview as a telemarketer.\u00a0 Very quickly his deception is uncovered but the interviewer states bluntly that there are no discernible skills required to be a telemarketer but the gumption he showed with his fake resume suggests a salesmanship that might make him suited for the (commission only) job.<\/p>\n

When he starts out, Cassius is dreadful at the job.\u00a0 It’s only when one of the old timers (Danny Glover), tells him to use an Aspirational White Voice does he find success.\u00a0 Cassius starts to make bank and soon his supervisor tells him he might get a big promotion and become a Power Caller.<\/p>\n

While this is going on, Cassius’ girlfriend Detroit (Tessa Thompson) and his new friends in the call centre begin to rally for better pay and working conditions.\u00a0 They organize a strike and begin to unionize.\u00a0 You can see where this is going.\u00a0 Cassuis becomes torn between his newfound success as a telemarketer and standing by his friends who are struggling to make ends meet.<\/p>\n

Sorry To Bother You<\/em> has the trappings of a conventional film about working class Americans in the first two acts.\u00a0 It’s funny, engaging and is a timely film reflecting the reality of many Americans today.\u00a0 In the final act however, the film takes a nightmarish twist and becomes something else entirely.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0imagine the third act could be rather polarizing with audiences – it is completely bonkers – but I found myself going along with it and enjoying it for its sheer unabashed lunacy.<\/p>\n

Although it hasn’t made the splash that some other independent films of this ilk have made, I can see\u00a0Sorry To Bother You<\/em> becoming something of a cult classic.\u00a0 It has an exceptional cast of people who are doing amazing things in film and television (Stanfield, Thompson, Yuen) and I think the subject it explores will only become more relevant as time passes.\u00a0 I admire how fearless and outspoken\u00a0Sorry To Bother You<\/em> is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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