[Editor’s note: The following article contains spoilers for “Sorry to Bother You.”]
At RegalView, the telemarketing firm where much of “Sorry to Bother You” is set, the most important rule is “stick to the script.” Yet writer-director Boots Riley refused to follow conventional filmmaking wisdom with his debut feature’s ending. Before the credits roll, corporate greed literally strips hero Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfield) of his humanity.
Cassius first encounters the equisapien — half-horse, half-man — inside the mansion of Steve Lift (Armie Hammer), CEO of Worry Free, the world’s leading provider of indentured servitude. Cassius is terrified and tries to flee, but Lift forces him into his study to watch a claymation video, “A New Miracle,” which reveals that Worry Free residents ingest a chemical “fusing catalyst” that causes 70 percent of humans to mutate into the creatures Cassius just encountered.
Read More: ‘Sorry to Bother You’ Star Lakeith Stanfield Is Ready to Kick Off His Shoes and Get Comfortable in Your Establishment
Cassius is incensed,...
At RegalView, the telemarketing firm where much of “Sorry to Bother You” is set, the most important rule is “stick to the script.” Yet writer-director Boots Riley refused to follow conventional filmmaking wisdom with his debut feature’s ending. Before the credits roll, corporate greed literally strips hero Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfield) of his humanity.
Cassius first encounters the equisapien — half-horse, half-man — inside the mansion of Steve Lift (Armie Hammer), CEO of Worry Free, the world’s leading provider of indentured servitude. Cassius is terrified and tries to flee, but Lift forces him into his study to watch a claymation video, “A New Miracle,” which reveals that Worry Free residents ingest a chemical “fusing catalyst” that causes 70 percent of humans to mutate into the creatures Cassius just encountered.
Read More: ‘Sorry to Bother You’ Star Lakeith Stanfield Is Ready to Kick Off His Shoes and Get Comfortable in Your Establishment
Cassius is incensed,...
- 7/9/2018
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
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