Fucking amazing. An absolute joyride through our own hell world. I feel like a fucking lib for waiting so long to find the time.
Teddy Perkins was the halloween episode of Atlanta season 2
It's definitely in my top 3 movies. Fucking loved it. I did a bunch of ketamine before watching with no knowledge of the film and the expectation that it would be a surreal comedy like Lakeiths other works. I did a line before the big reveal and holy shit lol
Now that's a fucking trip. K managed to avoid all spoilers before hand and it blew my fuckkng mind. Couldn't even imagine that shit in an altered state.
Boots Riley is great. If you manage to catch him on twitter between his long spells of deactivating, he always drops useful insight and info
Yeah that's right thanks, think I've heard of it, need to watch it
No one else find it ham fisted as fuck? Yeah the surrealism was kinda fun but to me it reeked of student film who were advised by their course leader to make it Brechtian or some shit.
I went to film school, so I thought it was at least plainly obvious, if not hamfisted, but there was a solid chunk of my friends that watched it that were like "huh?"
Simple fact is most people don't think movies, especially surreal ones, have anything more to say than the words on screen.
Yeah that's fair I suppose. Lots of my family members didn't get it at all.
I'm just so leftbrained that the leftism made it good despite 100% agreeing with what you said lol
But it was a fun watch, far from a masterpiece. Boots Riley in general is kinda hamfisted despite my respect for him.
hahah fuck it, make political messaging as obvious as possible. Chuds who accidentally watch this movie have to be hit over the head to even acknowledge COD and shit are political.
I felt like it carried on the Kafka tradition of being both surreal and hamfisted as fuck. It's overall message was obvious, but like Kafka I'm sure there is a lot I'll only get on repeat viewings
Okay the one scene I puzzle over is Tessa Thompson's art gallery performance. Is it just "modern art is exploitative towards the artists" or a reference to something or what? Pls help
Directly referencing this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_0
The whole sequence is IMO about "high" culture being just as fucking ridiculous as Getting the Shit Kicked Out of You on TV. Why TF didn't anyone try and stop Abramovic or the audience? What kind of depraved sicko would participate in Rhythm 0 "for art"? Cinema is the medium of the masses and Boots was very careful to ride the line between popular appeal and revolutionary content. The contradiction between the two plagued Soviet and Marxist filmmakers for the better part of the 20th century because working-class audiences wanted Hollywood adventures instead of having theory thrown at them. IMO Sorry to Bother You resolves that conflict in a better way than even Parasite, even if the plot is pretty fucking strange and theoretical aspects are on the nose.
o7 I love it. You have a way with words comrade, explained that much better than I ever could
