i came here just to link the exact same video. It's great, i think the movie is pretty clever but genuine reactionaries wouldn't see the criticism because their beliefs are too similar to the protagonist.
What i liked about Sorry To Bother You was not so much the lack of subtlety as that it didn't only show problems, but suggested actual praxis as a solution. If you only show the problem and portray it as something inevitable that just can't be helped, you normalize what you're criticizing. You get people used to it, you create media that, in Mark Fischer's words, "performs its anti-capitalism for you". STBY didn't do that. STBY showed workers that organizing and practicing solidarity across marginalized groups is the way to go, while becoming a class traitor is something you'll end up regretting. That's an extremely rare thing in contemporary media, because superficial, ultimately performative and recuperatable criticism is much easier to neuter and sanitize.
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i came here just to link the exact same video. It's great, i think the movie is pretty clever but genuine reactionaries wouldn't see the criticism because their beliefs are too similar to the protagonist.
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Except that's not what the review says, and that the film is exposing the nonsense behind reactionary minds.
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What i liked about Sorry To Bother You was not so much the lack of subtlety as that it didn't only show problems, but suggested actual praxis as a solution. If you only show the problem and portray it as something inevitable that just can't be helped, you normalize what you're criticizing. You get people used to it, you create media that, in Mark Fischer's words, "performs its anti-capitalism for you". STBY didn't do that. STBY showed workers that organizing and practicing solidarity across marginalized groups is the way to go, while becoming a class traitor is something you'll end up regretting. That's an extremely rare thing in contemporary media, because superficial, ultimately performative and recuperatable criticism is much easier to neuter and sanitize.
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