First published on the public account "Shadow Detective", ID: ttyingtan, author: Booka
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In recent years, black-themed movies have been very proud and have released too many popular masterpieces.
The best Oscar film "Moonlight Boy" , the horror hit "Escape from Death" , the dark horse of Marvel's box office "Black Panther" ...
They all have a double harvest in word of mouth and box office. (It is said that "Black Panther" will still compete for the best film Oscar.)
Recently, another high-scoring black film came out in the United States.
It is "crazy and funny", "absurd", "brain flies out of the galaxy".
Some netizens even commented on it like this: "Dumped 1 million "Black Panther" from "Escape from Death"!"
"Sorry to bother" tells about a black telesalesman who has done nothing to make a living by making sales calls every day.
His performance is not outstanding, he found that he has the ability to imitate the "white voice". Relying on this skill, he quickly took the position in the company.
After an accident, he discovered that the company was planning an ulterior conspiracy, and he was faced with a difficult choice...
"Sorry to bother you" is the debut work written and directed by Boots Reilly, the lead singer of the American hip-hop band The Coup .
His creative inspiration comes from his working experience.
The whole movie is full of absurd and dark style, magical realism and science fiction.
The freshness of rotten tomatoes is 94%.
The high reputation in the film circle makes it one of the surprises of American independent films this year.
Do you who work hard in the city often explode when working overtime?
Are you exhausted while worrying about the company's layoffs, the inability to pay the rent, or the mortgage?
If there is a company that provides you with a never-employed job, free accommodation for a lifetime, and free meals, would you like to go?
A company called "Worry-free" can achieve such conditions.
As long as you sign a lifetime contract with it, you can enjoy it for a lifetime for free until you report to heaven.
The "Worry-Free" company keeps advertising on the Internet, TV and other media, and the beautiful advertisements make the lower groups yearn.
Faced with the pressure of mortgages and unemployment, they all chose to sign a contract with "Worry-Free" companies and sell them for a lifetime.
There is no doubt that this kind of lifetime contract that sells for a lifetime is always controversial.
Opponents believe that: lifetime contract is an illegal business practice, even a kind of slavery in disguise.
However, the "Worry-Free" company relied on its connections in the US political arena to effortlessly cancel all accusations and prosecutions against it.
One of the largest, it formally monopolizes the labor market in the United States.
Our protagonist lives under the control of the "Worry-Free" company.
Little money (Le Kaisi Stanfield played, starred in "Escape swan town") underlying black, a nothing of.
Living in poverty, he only paid 40 cents for a petrol.
He and his girlfriend Xiao Lu (played by Tessa Thompson, starred in Thor 3 and Westworld) rented in a garage.
Xiaolu is a passionate leftist artist who is radical, rebellious and advocating freedom.
She opposes the oppression of the people by capitalists and the slavery of "Worry-Free" companies.
As the saying goes, people are poor.
Xiaoqian and Xiaolu are struggling at the poverty line with poverty and ambition.
The poor little couple has been in arrears of rent for several months.
In order to survive and pay the rent, Xiao Qian urgently needs a job.
Hard work pays off.
After constant interviews, he finally found a job with very low barriers: telesalesman.
As long as you can speak up and talk about the worthless things, you can be competent for the job of a telemarketer.
Xiaoqian's daily job is to keep calling, chatting with customers, and promoting the company's products.
Although it's just chatting with customers, it's not just chatting.
Everything you talk about must follow the script.
Only by following the script can you sell the goods, otherwise the phone bill will be used for nothing.
Everyone in sales knows that salary is directly linked to performance. As long as you sell more, you will naturally make more.
The company also promised that as long as the performance is good, it will be promoted to raise the salary and become an elite salesperson.
Elite salespersons have a special treatment: they can get on the golden elevator!
The golden elevator is a symbol of status, and it is also the driving force for the bottom-level salesmen to climb up all the time.
The little money that just arrived has been behind closed doors, and has not sold a single order.
Later, after a senior's reminder, he realized that calling is also necessary for acting.
"Black voice" cannot sell anything. People like to listen to "white voice" most.
The "white voice" is a voice that does not have to worry about mortgage and car loans, a voice that has a happy family.
It represents a confidence and a trust.
After being urged by an expert, Xiao Qian tried to imitate the white man.
He was so talented that he could get through, imitating the white man's ability to speak and then opened his mouth.
By imitating the white man's accent, his performance has skyrocketed and he has become a leader in the company.
Finally, Xiaoqian was promoted to an elite salesperson.
He finally got on the golden elevator.
Of course, not everyone can be promoted to an elite salesperson like a little money.
The salesmen at the bottom have been squeezed and exploited by capitalists.
Where there is oppression, there is resistance!
The employees at the bottom decided to strike, demanding a raise in the company’s salary and opposing exploitation and exploitation.
However, Xiaoqian at this time had already spoken a fluent white accent, and became more and more alienated from the original low-level workers.
He has forgotten himself who was once poor.
In his eyes, there is only money now! money! money!
He began to indulge in a life of drunkenness and gold, and indulged in drinking with that group of elites every day.
Because of his super ability to work, Xiaoqian was recommended to the big boss of the "Worry-Free" company (played by Amy Hammer, who once starred in "Please call me by your name").
In the process of talking with the boss, Xiaoqian accidentally discovered a shocking secret.
It turned out that the "Worry-Free" company secretly has been studying the racial transformation plan .
In order to improve production efficiency and save labor costs, they plan to turn the company's employees into half men and half horses.
These men and women are powerful and easy to collectively manage, and their work efficiency is several times higher than that of ordinary people.
It's a great deal to treat them as slaves.
Xiao Qian realized that the racial transformation plan would threaten the survival of mankind.
He decided to expose the shady and fight with the workers at the bottom again.
However, in a society controlled by capital, the development of things is unexpected and surprising...
Strictly speaking, "Sorry to Excuse me" is a comedy movie with an office theme.
It is full of black self-deprecating and absurd humor.
Going to apply for a job, and holding a fake trophy.
When taking the elevator, you must enter a dense, one-page password.
In order to be happy, black people who don't know how to rap can only relied on "niggers, bad things" to scold themselves.
However, Bo Jun's smile is not the original intention and creative appeal of the director.
The storyline of magical realism and sci-fi elements makes the movie mind-boggling, playful, and at the same time connotative.
Every time you call a guest, you will fall directly in front of the guest, no matter if he is shit or having sex.
The sci-fi plot of transforming the human body into a horse truly fulfilled the dream of a live-action version of the horse man.
The alienation of people into animals is a symbol of slavery and capitalist greed.
In addition to the director and the lead singer of the band, the director Boots Riley has another identity: a political activist.
As a relatively active activist in the United States, he brought his ideas into the movie, which is also the theme of "Sorry to Bother You".
On the one hand, it satirizes the status quo of racial discrimination in the United States.
In the movie, Xiao Li wears a pair of Bury the rag deep in your face earrings.
This phrase comes from the song "The Lonely Death of Harty Kahlo" by Bob Dylan .
This song was written for the incident of "a poor black woman was murdered by a rich white".
From this detail, we can feel the director's stance on racial discrimination.
In a society where all beings are equal, the voice of white people is superior to that of black people.
If you are not white, not only will you be discriminated against because of your skin color, but your voice will also be discriminated against.
In the film, the director used the absurd method of imitating the "white voice" to express the racial discrimination faced in reality.
In addition, it also alludes to the alienation of discriminated groups today.
In the movie, some blacks sell their souls for their careers. After a steady pace, his heart will become a white man.
On the other hand, it criticized the slavery work system and capitalist exploitation in today's society.
In the United States, income inequality, the widening gap between the rich and the poor, and the increasingly serious unemployment problem have left many streets in ruins.
The director expresses the real problem in the movie through magical reality.
"Worry-free" company's lifelong sales contract and horse transformation plan have nakedly portrayed the nature of capitalist exploitation.
In order to purely pursue economic benefits and improve work efficiency, capitalism reforms people physically and exploits and squeezes labor.
This further reflects the most typical alienated nature of capitalist society. People have been enslaved and have lost their characteristics as human beings.
Through this film, the director gave us a warning: Although black slavery has long been abolished, new slavery is also hatching.
The combination of dark absurdity + anti-capitalism + anti-discrimination + surrealism, "Sorry to bother you" is definitely one of the most surprising movies this year.
"Escape from Deadly Town" uses racial discrimination to bring about a carnival of murdering whites. This is a simple, straightforward and violent counterattack.
As the first superhero movie with a black protagonist, "Black Panther" doesn't involve much in reality.
"Sorry to bother you" is a comedy film that uses magical realism and science fiction elements to express political positions and realistic meaning, and shows the sincerity of the director's creative intentions.
Its critique of racial discrimination is stronger than "Escape from Death", and the absurd magical reality is better than "Black Panther".
So it’s not too much to say, "It dumped a million "Black Panther" from "Escape from Breaking Down".
At present, the 2018-2019 Oscars season has already begun.
As the first stop of the awards season, the 28th Gotham Independent Film Awards has announced the nominations.
Among them, "Sorry to Excuse me" has been nominated for the Best Actor and Best Breakthrough Director Awards.
(Booka's three previous movies "Leave No Trace", "Eighth Grade" and "Private Life" were also nominated.)
"Leave no trace": Best Actor, Nominated for Breakthrough Actor of the Year. Read and click 100% of Rotten Tomatoes. After reading it, I found that I was really lustful. "Eighth Grade": Breakthrough Actor of the Year, Nominated for the Best Breakthrough Director Award. Read, click, use nude photos to hand in male votes, and be friends with campus bitches, is this youth really cool? " Private Life": Nominated for best actress and best screenplay. Click to read only a man of an egg, really difficult to have a baby!
Finally, I wish 4 works such as "Sorry to Excuse me" in this year's Oscars season!
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2018.10.23/Qingdao
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