Review of Sorry to Bother You (2018) by Acolaprete — 13 Jul 2018

While its a very well executed picture, the ideas are not novel by any means, and it only manages retreads the same lines as other European directors (such as Godard) in a much more American friendly way.

The plot "twist" was obvious, not the content itself but its very existence, i.e., the slow discovery of "the horror" a-la heart of darkness at the center of the film's core concepts.

In other respects, the troubling ways it romanticizes political violence could be ignored safely if they were used only as narrative action, but instead they are presented as the only feasible solution to this problem, with even the strong suggestion of the proletariat literally killing their capitalist masters.

Its good that Americans are finally being introduced to Marxism in popular culture, but not in such a heavily ideologically driven way, and it would've benefited the film to be closer to Das Kapital rather than the Communist Manifesto.

Magical Realism, Absurdism, and surrealism have their place, but not in this day and age, with this subject matter.