*ahem*
*inhales*
Hide that part in spoilers!!
But yes, it is a sincere critique of capitalism and exploitation of race, and the climax is part of that metaphor. Seriously, if Amazon could turn laborers into horse-people, you know they would.
Here's a good thread on the movie
, and a good article on its depiction of code-switching
. And I enjoy this adorable review by critics Kyle Kallgren and Jourdain Searles.
Edited by Tuckerscreator on Sep 2nd 2018 at 10:12:09 AM
Because people tend to have discussions before the movie's out based on pre-release materials like trailers and would save spoilers until people either saw the movie or have the means to watch it at home?
At the very least, the OP should've said in advance he'd be spilling spoilers, like in his first post or in the title of the thread...
In further reflection, I wonder if my reaction to seeing this film isn't the same as seeing Brazil back in the day. Both are very surreal movies which start out with serious commentary and just gradually get wackier and wackier until you find yourself wondering how seriously you're supposed to take the themes.
I'd give this movie a 9/10—the satire of how corporations treat their employees was spot-on, and most of it was really excellent in terms of comedy, buuut... I understand what the movie was going for with the horse-people, in terms of the dehumanization of workers, but it really took me out of the movie, and I wasn't really feeling the last 20 minutes or so.
they're gonna find intelligent life up there on the moon/and the canterbury tales will shoot up to the top of the best-seller list

Sorry to Bother You
Wow. Just got back from watching this in a theater with my wife and a friend. I honestly can't tell if the film is trying to be a sincere critique about race relations in employment, or if the entire joke of the movie is that you think it's going to have a serious theme and then BOOM, there's <item elided due to spoiler tag failing>!
I had a ball watching it, but mainly because there were so many parts where I was laughing because I couldn't tell if they were taking themselves seriously or not.
Edited by FuzzyBoots on Sep 2nd 2018 at 7:48:00 AM