Unfilmable 25: Sorry to Bother You
Added 2021-03-24 20:24:18 +0000 UTCThis episode begins a short run of the show where we share good horror movies with each other. First up is "Sorry to Bother You", written and directed by Boots Riley. Though it doesn't bill itself as a horror movie, we make the argument that it has many of the hallmarks: it features a character who is unwittingly in the hands of a destructive force that he is unable to stop. It features dread and fear of the erasure of the body and the will. It's also funny, and a critique of capitalism, but that doesn't get in the way of it being quite unsettling.
Comments
Thinking of this as a horror movie really unlocks it for me, it makes so much more sense with that lens added on! Was definitely NOT a good choice to watch on a crowded airplane, though….
Patrick Galasso
2022-08-24 13:12:18 +0000 UTCBrillIant movie! Didn’t realise this was uploaded!
Elliot Nial
2021-04-19 12:42:24 +0000 UTCThe Public Opinion Laboratory sounds like the evil organization that does battle against the Children's Television Workshop
Matt Bixler! Hello!
2021-03-25 22:08:42 +0000 UTCYup! I noticed it on a trip and we talked about it on an ollllld abject suffering! -GB
Duckfeed.tv
2021-03-25 18:29:10 +0000 UTCThe first half of this film resonated with me so much. I worked at Yelp in phone sales for about 11 months and was asked to do and say many extremely uncomfortable and dehumazinging things (including but not limited to asking people to pull over while driving so I can pitch them immediately, calling and trying to sell ads to a region of north carolina that had the day before been hit by a hurricane, etc). There was also a big emphasis and the "yelp elite executives" who had their pictures put up in the offices as if they were religious figures fit for worship. The position ground through 100 new hires a month (most straight out of college.) It was an awful job lol.
Kyle C.
2021-03-25 17:40:16 +0000 UTCThere's actually fancy seafood restaurant in Baltimore called the Rusty Scupper lol.
Ipoop4U
2021-03-25 17:10:10 +0000 UTCAs a black man who worked in a call center when this movie dropped, this movie struck a cord with me so hard. Those parts are so accurate that I was getting PTSD flashback watching it lol
Alex Brewington
2021-03-24 22:23:26 +0000 UTCI went into this movie not knowing a thing about it. Nothing could have prepared me for that ending.
Joshua Kane
2021-03-24 20:34:25 +0000 UTC
