Sorry to Bother You
Taking place in a California not unlike the one we know, comedian and Coup frontman Boots Riley’s directorial debut takes the repellent fantasies of our late-capitalist, fake-news world—one that is constantly on the brink but never ending—at their word. In this surreal vision of Oakland, slavery has become the only option, white fantasies are the only way to get ahead, and the invisible empires of tech giants are built upon piles of all-too-human bodies. In the face of this entirely accepted madness, Riley—a self-declared communist who has proclaimed that is a communist film—is adamant that revolution is the next and only logical step, one that most of us are too timid to
