Boots Riley is a rapper + long time activist and all around good man. His band is called The Coup and their debut album from the early 1990s is called Kill My Landlord. They've done a bunch of other really good albums as well - Check them out!! I saw Sorry To Bother you on release in the US and it is fantastic and continues the political activism that Boots has been doing his whole life, great movie and one thing Kermode didn't mention was the really good sound track!
the guillotine is honestly one of my favourite songs, dunno if they use it in this but it always gets me fired up. boots is a solid dude, can't wait to see this
Just saw it this evening, Mark wasn't wrong when he said it takes a turn for the weird. Some serious body horror here, and I do love how Steve Lift's entire look is one of someone who saw what artsy types of people were wearing and threw entirely too much money at a designer to remake. He, aside from his evil actions, probably referred to himself and spiritual but not religious.
I need to watch this because of Lakeith Stanfield, I've only seen him in Atlanta, Get Out and Short Term 12 but he's amazing in all of them and they're three really different characters
Ever since I saw it in July (I live in the US), I was wondering when will the film get an international release. 5-6 months, I'm glad it came out in Britain. One of the best films I've seen all year.
Loved the movie, too. It's not just a critique of capitalism and about selling out - it's also about a black man selling out in a white world - a modern take on Uncle Tom's Cabin.
If you like your films a little on the surreal side but also with a good helping of satire (Being John Malkovich, Brazil) then you'll enjoy this. It's brightly-coloured, freshly-soundtracked, and it has a unique vibe to it.
I felt it was reminding me of something throughout, and once it ended, I immediately realised that what it was reminding me of was, bizarrely, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. I think it's a closer film to the book in its spirit and themes than Blade Runner, actually. Blade Runner lost a lot of the examination of labour drudgery that was prevalent in the book, whereas it's right here. And the TV show in this is very reminiscent of the odd VR stoning segments in DADOES (a subplot that Blade Runner culls entirely).
The film’s well acted, well written, well characterised, well directed, stylish, funny & is an intriguing & quirky sci-fi dramedy. (88%) (4.5/5 stars) (positive)
I saw this with my wife when it was released in the US. She is Spanish and felt that it probably wouldn't play the same back in Spain because it's too much of a dark & fantastic view of our working conditions, that there wouldn't be anything for audiences to connect to. Whereas for us in the US, being used to our terrible terms of employment and medical system, etc., and also far more prominent racial politics, it feels more viscerally relatable, like a nightmare that seems a little too real. I'd be curious if British audiences would feel a similar distance to Sorry To Bother You as my wife felt.
As a British guy, this film hit me really hard and I found it really quite relatable. More in the class and worker struggle sense as opposed to race but it really did hit
If you've read anything by Bentley Little (The Store, The Association, The Ignored, The Resort, Dispatch), you'll appreciate the tone of SORRY TO BOTHER YOU even more. Loved this film.
It was unique and certainly memorable but the way it carries on and diverges into a completely different film killed it for me IMO. Still some funny bits and I won't forget it anytime soon.
@@superamanda Chomsky isn't? I guess not depending on your definition. I *believe* he self-identifies as socialist-adjacent at least. I haven't read him/about him in a while tho so couldn't say.
For me, a Movie should take me by the Hand and drag me into a Journey into an undiscovered Country & it should touch me profound Emotional. Only three Movies in 2018 so far(the others are: You Were Never Really Here & Operation Red Sea (The Chinese Anti Black Hawk Down)and The Night comes for us)) hav' done that to me. THIS is the fours One. It's a Miracle that the Director could get the Money & Freedom to do it his Way. Great Review as always. Best regards
Brilliant film. Everyone sees it as an indictment of capitalism, but I saw it as an indictment of greed, corporate corruption, exploitation, slavery, perhaps fascism. But capitalism is not a pathway to any of those things, it's a simple principle of personal financial freedom.
Well that sounds really good, HOWEVER it could potentially make me feel uncomfortable for even the briefest of moments so it's a thumbs down from me and I'm never going to think about it again!
I wanted to love this due to the cast and creative script but the direction felt so slack and dull for a movie needed an absolute mad man at the helm to give it the punch it deserves. On top of that, I felt the film unfortunately abandoned its thesis of the "White Voice" in favor of something else entirely that while I get the point of it, lacks the bite of the initial ideas. Also this needed more Danny Glover and Terry Crews. You're better off watching Blindspotting instead.
Couldn't disagree more -- Blindspotting isn't 1/10th the film Sorry is. Blindspotting exploits the issues it depicts, such as killercops, without having anything insightful or deeply true to say about them. The penultimate scene is despicable, in which the protagonist's best friend brutalizes an African-American man, only to remain chumming it up with our hero at the end with no consequences. We're literally shown someone committing a hate crime and expected to absolve him without any display of remorse, let alone, restitution, because gentrification is bad. The white-voice device isn't Sorry's "thesis" - it's the catalyst the story uses to explore how issues of class and race intersect -- all while mining dark comedy driven by an understanding of the contradictions inherent in capitalism.
If you thought the "White Voice" was the thesis of the film, i can absolutely understand why you didn't like the film. It's just a single point of critique in a film about the absurd horrors of capitalism. It just happened to be the one of the few things in the film that could possibly be turned into a usable movie trailer & selling point for general audiences.
Just seen it. It's okay. I'll give it some credit for trying to do something different. I get it's trying to do social commentary, especially concerning workers' rights and the current economy we have due to globalisation. Unfortunately though, it's rather stretched too far - and the 180 towards the final act, probably just pushes it too far, then I think it loses all of the social commentary from before. It's gallant attempt though, for a first time director.
Man spent most of the video describing the film instead of reviewing it smh please bro get to the point and stop referencing all these other films nobody has seen
Just seen this and I'm struggling to equate it with Mark's review. It's a complete mess without a single funny joke in it. A complete boring waste of time. Money back please.
You're have the right to not see any movies by black filmmakers that involves white America. There's not going to as many movies like Moonlight as you'd like.
I laughed til I was hoarse
This made me chortle
I read this, watched 10 minutes and agreed that it was funny. Came back to this after watching it and it clicked.
Surely you mean horse! 😁
So, why the long face?
I saw this a few weeks ago and I thought I was like if Charlie Kaufman wrote a Ken Loach film.
What an amazing way of summing up the film! haha
I'd say "Franz Kafka's Idiocracy"
I saw it right now and I though it was like if Charlie Kaufman was less pretentious.
Yes!
Boots Riley is a rapper + long time activist and all around good man. His band is called The Coup and their debut album from the early 1990s is called Kill My Landlord. They've done a bunch of other really good albums as well - Check them out!!
I saw Sorry To Bother you on release in the US and it is fantastic and continues the political activism that Boots has been doing his whole life, great movie and one thing Kermode didn't mention was the really good sound track!
They collab a lot with Dead Prez.
the guillotine is honestly one of my favourite songs, dunno if they use it in this but it always gets me fired up. boots is a solid dude, can't wait to see this
Just checked The Coup out, some really good stuff!
The twist towards the end of this movie is one of the the greatest WTF moments in movie history.
i was like omg wtf
It probably caught Shyamalan off guard
That for me changed it from a great to good film.
@Ori honestly
@@whoknew2273 i thought so too. it was unexpected, but not needed. i wish the movie stayed on the route it lead us to believe it was going to go.
Just saw it this evening, Mark wasn't wrong when he said it takes a turn for the weird. Some serious body horror here, and I do love how Steve Lift's entire look is one of someone who saw what artsy types of people were wearing and threw entirely too much money at a designer to remake. He, aside from his evil actions, probably referred to himself and spiritual but not religious.
I need to watch this because of Lakeith Stanfield, I've only seen him in Atlanta, Get Out and Short Term 12 but he's amazing in all of them and they're three really different characters
He's brilliant in this. His character is fairly different from Darius, but the overall vibe of the film, especially early on, is pretty Atlanta-esque
He mentions the Michel Gondry style- the director of the short animated presentation films Cassius has to watch is shown as Michel Dongry.
Well observed!
Ha, I hadn't noticed that - I was too distracted by the "dong".
Great movie, twist ending might be a bit extreme for some but I found it hilarious and appropriate for the world they set up.
About time this came out over here, really looking forward to it
bloody heck, it was initially release in January!
That was at Sundance Festival, but it did come out properly in the US in July yeah so still ages ago @@larssonk22
I have been waiting for this movie for a while now. I hope to see it soon.
I really enjoyed it. The main character is excellent, as is his psycho boss. Very funny and surprising storytelling.
I saw this a month ago at the Inverness Film Festival & absolutely LOVED it! Has one of the most bizarre third acts that I can remember
Ever since I saw it in July (I live in the US), I was wondering when will the film get an international release. 5-6 months, I'm glad it came out in Britain. One of the best films I've seen all year.
Loved the movie, too.
It's not just a critique of capitalism and about selling out - it's also about a black man selling out in a white world - a modern take on Uncle Tom's Cabin.
UlrichUlrich and what’s so great is that it shows that those two struggles are inseparable.
If you like your films a little on the surreal side but also with a good helping of satire (Being John Malkovich, Brazil) then you'll enjoy this.
It's brightly-coloured, freshly-soundtracked, and it has a unique vibe to it.
One of the best films of the year
I felt it was reminding me of something throughout, and once it ended, I immediately realised that what it was reminding me of was, bizarrely, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. I think it's a closer film to the book in its spirit and themes than Blade Runner, actually. Blade Runner lost a lot of the examination of labour drudgery that was prevalent in the book, whereas it's right here. And the TV show in this is very reminiscent of the odd VR stoning segments in DADOES (a subplot that Blade Runner culls entirely).
Great film. I really can't believe it even got made.
I love this movie. So bizarre and charming.
The film’s well acted, well written, well characterised, well directed, stylish, funny & is an intriguing & quirky sci-fi dramedy. (88%) (4.5/5 stars) (positive)
Glad he mentioned, “O Lucky Man!” (no one else did).
And he was a coffee salesman.
I saw this with my wife when it was released in the US. She is Spanish and felt that it probably wouldn't play the same back in Spain because it's too much of a dark & fantastic view of our working conditions, that there wouldn't be anything for audiences to connect to. Whereas for us in the US, being used to our terrible terms of employment and medical system, etc., and also far more prominent racial politics, it feels more viscerally relatable, like a nightmare that seems a little too real. I'd be curious if British audiences would feel a similar distance to Sorry To Bother You as my wife felt.
As a British guy, this film hit me really hard and I found it really quite relatable. More in the class and worker struggle sense as opposed to race but it really did hit
I saw this in the US 4 months ago and it's been really hard to keep quiet about it
2021 when we wish Armie Hammer were just a coke snorting CEO
If you've read anything by Bentley Little (The Store, The Association, The Ignored, The Resort, Dispatch), you'll appreciate the tone of SORRY TO BOTHER YOU even more. Loved this film.
The ending of this film is bizarre
It was unique and certainly memorable but the way it carries on and diverges into a completely different film killed it for me IMO. Still some funny bits and I won't forget it anytime soon.
We used to have them, they were called "work houses"
Hey man can you help me?
I loved this movie. It’s definitely in my top 5 this year. The message is spot on.
A hard film to sell without spoiling
Just saw this today and had a blast, was laughing consistently throughout, one of my very fav films of the year
I laughed the most at the rapping scene. The audience lapping it up did it for me!
Great that this review is out on Noam Chomsky's birthday
He’s not a socialist though!
@@superamanda Chomsky isn't? I guess not depending on your definition. I *believe* he self-identifies as socialist-adjacent at least. I haven't read him/about him in a while tho so couldn't say.
I love "The Last Supper" so much.
Who is the man in the picture Cassius keeps putting up in his cubicle?
It was his dad.
For me, a Movie should take me by the Hand and drag me into a Journey into an undiscovered Country & it should touch me profound Emotional. Only three Movies in 2018 so far(the others are: You Were Never Really Here & Operation Red Sea (The Chinese Anti Black Hawk Down)and The Night comes for us)) hav' done that to me. THIS is the fours One. It's a Miracle that the Director could get the Money & Freedom to do it his Way. Great Review as always. Best regards
Mark please before you leave us talk about the house that jack built!!!
Really loved it. Felt The Brazil riffs strongly straight away - the dissonances are awesome.
Black Mirror with a bigger budget, good still
It's more like Black Mirror meets Charlie Kaufman
Mark I know you don’t talk TV but what did you think of Maniac?
Reminded me of Southland Tales meets Cronenberg
Brilliant film. Everyone sees it as an indictment of capitalism, but I saw it as an indictment of greed, corporate corruption, exploitation, slavery, perhaps fascism. But capitalism is not a pathway to any of those things, it's a simple principle of personal financial freedom.
Well that sounds really good, HOWEVER it could potentially make me feel uncomfortable for even the briefest of moments so it's a thumbs down from me and I'm never going to think about it again!
😂🤣
Heaven forbid you should ever feel uncomfortable. Wouldn’t want to have to learn anything or self-examine
Wow. You'll never get anywhere if you don't get out of your comfort zone
@@michaelproch2733 Debangsu Sarkar I know lads, I was being all sarcastic like.
@@ganymedeix9511 Oh i gotcha
Armie Hammer isn’t the CEO of the power callers he’s the CEO of WorryFree.
Pure insanity, you gotta love it
my 2nd fav movie of all time
Mark you spent four minutes explaining the plot!
so lazy when critics do that.
Great review and great film
The twist just kinda took me out of it. I was loving the movie until that twist. Then my suspension of disbelief fell
best film ive seen in forever
Fun film
this movie was like taking Ketamine and going down a K hole
I wanted to love this due to the cast and creative script but the direction felt so slack and dull for a movie needed an absolute mad man at the helm to give it the punch it deserves. On top of that, I felt the film unfortunately abandoned its thesis of the "White Voice" in favor of something else entirely that while I get the point of it, lacks the bite of the initial ideas. Also this needed more Danny Glover and Terry Crews.
You're better off watching Blindspotting instead.
Couldn't disagree more -- Blindspotting isn't 1/10th the film Sorry is. Blindspotting exploits the issues it depicts, such as killercops, without having anything insightful or deeply true to say about them. The penultimate scene is despicable, in which the protagonist's best friend brutalizes an African-American man, only to remain chumming it up with our hero at the end with no consequences. We're literally shown someone committing a hate crime and expected to absolve him without any display of remorse, let alone, restitution, because gentrification is bad. The white-voice device isn't Sorry's "thesis" - it's the catalyst the story uses to explore how issues of class and race intersect -- all while mining dark comedy driven by an understanding of the contradictions inherent in capitalism.
If you thought the "White Voice" was the thesis of the film, i can absolutely understand why you didn't like the film. It's just a single point of critique in a film about the absurd horrors of capitalism. It just happened to be the one of the few things in the film that could possibly be turned into a usable movie trailer & selling point for general audiences.
I was known as the Greasy Pole of Success, cos' my name's Polish.
Sold!
thought this going to be the film of the week
Great film!
This was either the best film or worst film I've seen this year.
how the hell is this a 15? lol
How much does Kermode look like Val Kilmer
Great first half, then it gets progressively worse - which was a real shame.
Just seen it. It's okay. I'll give it some credit for trying to do something different. I get it's trying to do social commentary, especially concerning workers' rights and the current economy we have due to globalisation. Unfortunately though, it's rather stretched too far - and the 180 towards the final act, probably just pushes it too far, then I think it loses all of the social commentary from before. It's gallant attempt though, for a first time director.
This film sounds very similar to an unpublished novel I wrote a few years ago!
I thought you were going to review it not give us a synopsis.
It's all a bit hamfisted. Had a few chuckles, but mostly about stuff happening in the background.
it isn't funny and goes on way too long but it has a kind of message
Will Smith white.....LOL😂😂
I'm confused.is ok for a black man to impersonate a white man voice?
If it makes a white owned company a lot of money, then yes.
Man spent most of the video describing the film instead of reviewing it smh please bro get to the point and stop referencing all these other films nobody has seen
Society, Brazil, tetsuo body hammer, I'm a geek. Seen em all😳
Brazil is one of the most well-known sci-fi films ever smh
@@alex-oy9eo didn’t know that never personally heard of it but that wasn’t really my point.
Just seen this and I'm struggling to equate it with Mark's review. It's a complete mess without a single funny joke in it. A complete boring waste of time. Money back please.
Probably gave a little to much away in this review.
Thought this was utterly dreadful, walked out after an hour
This film was a tad overrated...
Without a doubt the worst movie I’ve seen this year. I love satire, but thought this was painfully unfunny and uninteresting
It was ok until Danny Glover's character reveals that the characters really are white. His suicide at the end is quite moving though.
DUDE. SPOILER WARNING! DAFUQ
@@ctrlaltdelete200390 he just made that up
The Mel Gibson cameo was great too. Thought it was a little extreme for him to show up in black face in 2018 though.
black cinema needs to talk about other subject matters other than white america
You're have the right to not see any movies by black filmmakers that involves white America. There's not going to as many movies like Moonlight as you'd like.
The film's about capitalism you dipshit
Humans need to talk about other subject matters other than the world.... (get some perspective, seriously)
Moonlight, probably the most famous example of black cinema in recent years, except maybe get out, didn’t even feature any white characters
This movie is terrible, bad writing, not funny and nothing but racist propaganda.
Uhuh.
Apologies, Im not sure if you are agreeing or disagreeing, I might have jumped a bit to a conclusion there.
Not agreeing, just vehemently allowing you to express your opinion :)
I'm quitely judging you.
@@amanjaiswal9389 Nice reference. Magnolia is one of my top 5 films of all time!