Watched the movie last night with a couple pals, and HOLY SHIT that was BETTER than what I expected! Thank you Boots Riley for being a based commie and not hiding any anti-capitalist themes! To everyone else who still hasn’t watched it and keeps telling themselves they should, do itttttt
not hiding any anti-capitalist themes
I loved this movie and it’s really good, but that’s actually one of its few flaws: it is not very subtle. I guess that’s what makes it so accessible though.
What’s wrong with lack of subtlety? Some movies are not meant to be subtle. Everything about the style of this movie is “slap you in the face” which is why it works so well. The whole “dropping your office desk in a random persons house as cold calling” metaphor is a perfect pithy for this movie. You cannot escape capitalism in a modern city environment, it follows you everywhere. That is what the movie showed perfectly through visuals and tone.
Yeah it has its advantages. I guess I’m just used to leftist messages being dog whistled and grew to like them conveyed that way. And I agree that doing things with subtlety is not the best way to communicate a political message. Loved the directing and the style, the plot just seemed a bit clumsy to me sometimes.
Movie: [Is about capitalists doing capitalism capitalistically]
Viewers: “Yessir, what a chilling vision of what life would be like under socialism.”
