I just got back from seeing Sorry to Bother You. It wasn't going to play in Ithaca, but our
awesome local art house theater aka my home away from home, Cinemapolis was able to
bring it. I know I'm going to have way more to say about it and this isn't a movie I want to
spoil for anybody so I'm going to keep this brief and just say Boots Riley has made one weird,
thought provoking, mind blowing movie.
It's a scathing, satirical statement on consumer culture, capitalism, race, class, and society. It's
original and inventive and unlike maybe anything you've seen on the big screen. I wouldn't
know what to compare it to. I walked out feeling like my head exploded in the best way
possible. Which would be not my brains oozing out. That, I promise, is not what happened.
Because that's gross. Instead, I felt like every synapse was firing with thoughts of just about
every second of that movie.
Anyway, I hope you'll go see it and come talk to me about it. I mean, talk to me about any
movie, but especially this movie. And just a tiny note on this- support movies made by people
of color, queers, and women. Go see movies put out by smaller studios like Annapurna who
get "weird", "different" movies out there for us to watch that will make us think.
