Directed by debutant Boots Riley, the eccentric augur-like prophetization revolves around the journey of Cassius Green from rags to riches and the simultaneous changes in his personal life. If you don’t see another movie all summer. It’s a blast sometimes it’s a little too much so, as everything is so skitty, so mad, and fast, it’s hard to keep up with. ‘Sorry To Bother You’ tries to throw light on that and probes into modern-day consumerism through the lens of race relations and class divide. Sorry to Bother You is a lot of things: wildly hysterical, weird AF, and chock-full of amazing performances by a great cast of mostly Black actors. An early sequence of Cassius, at his desk, literally crashing into people’s lives, is a startling jolt, and things get wilder as the film goes on. An African American telemarketer in California discovers an unsettling key to success. Tonally, aesthetically and narratively, everything is crazed, with absurdist diversions and DIY stylings reminiscent of, respectively, Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry. Absurdist comedy from director Boots Riley. Sorry To Bother You is about how money and ego can corrode us it’s about selling out, sacrificing our identity, our morality, our principles. In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a universe of greed. For this installment, writer and director Boots Riley chose to unpack the most startling sequence in his film Sorry to Bother You: the reveal of the equisapiens. With some other victims, Cash can be seen breaking into Lift’s mansion and muttering the words sorry to bother you as the screen turns black.

We are all capital, Riley reminds us, but all also infected by capitalism - we’re part of the problem. As we come to the end of the movie, Cash suddenly transforms into one of the equisapiens, affirming the drug that Lift gave to him as the serum as opposed to cocaine. It’s a very Trumpian elevator, but Riley isn’t raging at specific figures or political parties - it’s the entire system that’s up for the chop, including us. It’s a technicolour rant, from its stop-motion sequences to its horrific gameshow ‘I Got The Shit Kicked Out Of Me’ to the gold elevator reserved for RegalView’s top level ‘power callers’. Social concerns are wrestled - make that piledriven - from the start. However, Cassius' conscience arises anew as he finds himself in the midst of his boss' bizarre world of condescending bigoted decadence and his sinister plans to create the perfect subservient work force with Cassius' help.Director Boots Riley has ideas to spare, and then some. Regardless, Cassius finds himself promoted a 'Power Caller' selling the most morally abhorrent but lucrative products and services as his connection to his girlfriend and colleagues fades away. Brian Tallerico JTweet Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch Boots Riley ’s Sorry to Bother You is an adrenalin-shot of a comedy and a fearless dissection of identity politics, corporate malevolence, and the American tendency to look the other way when confronted with horror. In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success which propels him into a macabre universe. With a bizarrely high-pitched accent, Cassius becomes a success even as his colleagues form a union to improve their miserable jobs. That changes when a veteran advises him to use his 'white voice,' and the attitude behind it to make himself more appealing to customers.

In an alternate version of Oakland, Cassius Green gets a telemarketing job and finds the commission paid job a dispiriting struggle as a black man selling to predominately white people over the phone. YTS.AM: YIFY Movies (the only official YIFY site) at and However, the more I’ve thought on it, the more those elements reveal just what a passion project Sorry to Bother You was, and those are the elements that wind up actually elevating it.

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