![]() ![]() The story also inspired a Simpsons spoof (” The Island of Dr. The novel was adapted into the 1932 film Island of Lost Souls and two subsequent movies, both titled The Island of Dr. In the story, a man winds up on a mysterious island where he discovers a scientist who’s been creating human-animal hybrids. Wells’ 1896 novel The Island of Doctor Moreau. The flickering-lights, horror-movie reveal of the horse people in Sorry to Bother You might seem out of place even for the film’s exaggerated reality, but it’s straight out of the “mad scientist” trope established by H.G. ![]() And Lift has a proposal for Cash: $100,000,000 if Cash will transform into a horse-person for five years and act as a man on the inside for WorryFree. There, in Lift’s sprawling mansion, Cash opens the wrong door and stumbles upon a disturbing secret - Lift is engineering horrific human-horse hybrids, called “equisapiens,” who are meant to be stronger and more productive than WorryFree’s human laborers. Understandably, Cash is conflicted about his personal gain coming at the expense of other people, but he can’t resist the trappings of wealth, including a special invitation to a party at the home of WorryFree CEO Steve Lift, played by Armie Hammer. His newfound success nets him a hefty salary and allows him to afford a beautiful new apartment and flashy car, but puts him at odds with his friends and girlfriend Detroit, an artist and activist working multiple jobs who’s played by Tessa Thompson. He soon rises in the ranks, and gets promoted so he can sell WorryFree labor over the phone. The shadow of late capitalism hangs over Cash’s world as it does ours - all around Cash are people struggling to get by, while a dystopian company called WorryFree advertises “free” food and housing in exchange for a lifetime of labor, aka a system that, as characters in the film point out, is essentially slavery.īut Cash begins to excel at work when he discovers that he can sell more by putting on a “white voice,” supplied via voiceover by comedian David Cross. Hard up for money to pay his uncle rent and repair his busted car, Cash takes a job at RegalView, a bleak telemarketing company. ![]() Sorry to Bother You stars Lakeith Stanfield, of Atlanta and Get Out, as the not-so-subtly-named Cassius “Cash” Green. If you haven’t seen it yet and don’t know what twist we’re talking about, look away now, because spoilers abound. While that reveal may have seemed over-the-top, it’s also part of a long cinematic tradition of using similar devices as allegory. Boots Riley’s surreal new social satire Sorry to Bother You takes place in a world that’s much like our own - until a twist in the latter part of the film sends it careening into science-fiction. ![]()
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