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

  • garbology [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I understand art can't be universal and it's obviously fine that you didn't care for it, but... I thought it was a clever way to jarringly make the non-radicalized viewer realize how dehumanizing the efforts of company productivity/behavior training is, traces a through-line from centuries-old racist tropes about black laborers, and also is shock value that provides cover for the anti-capitalist message.

    • loudcolors [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Boots even said himself in an interview that it was a parallel for scientific racism. Proto-capitalism literally inventing a species out of thin air for the extraction of surplus value.