Sorry to Bother You

Disclaimer: I was quite high when I first saw this movie.

I have a new favorite movie. The Fountain, my previous choice, is still my favorite cinematic experience and is personally significant to me, Sorry to Bother You is the most immaculately crafted and intentionally perfect movie I've ever seen. Maybe...the two of them can both be my favorite movie.

This movie is a masterpiece in filmmaking. No shot is wasted, every color utilized, all the components perfectly arrange with the deliberate intention of inviting you, the viewer, into an intriguing conversation that will begin with very simple images and symbols. You will notice from the very first shot that Sorry to Bother You is presenting you each element in the shot quite deliberately and intentionally in order to draw your attention down to the level of symbolic interpretation. This is NOT a movie to interpret literally.

It's not just a masterfully crafted movie, either; this is a formula carefully followed, where each and every line is less a line than it is a carefully considered point in a long master argument in whose shadow you are slowing disappearing. It's teaching you to see symbols and theory made flesh on screen. Once you see that every shot is a yin yang or a contrast of sorts, you'll see for yourself that each and every frame is drenched in subliminal meaning of one kind or another. Before long, you'll start to recognize that Sorry to Bother You is not a movie or a story so much as it is a carefully made argument condemning the evils of capitalism and organized religion's complicity in it.

I'm dead serious. This isn't just a movie, this is art. It's the perfect merger of film and text as mediums for creativity and meaning. This is one for the ages. You'll see Ying Yangs and symbols everywhere Uzumaki style for a while after...

P.S. The Yin-yang thing was not actually in the movie. Just what my stoned brain thought it saw. And The Fountain is still my favorite movie.

Thoughts after watching Automata.

Just watched Automata on Netflix, starring Antonio Banderas. It's good stuff. It made me think.

Survival is irrelevant.

Life always finds a way.

There will never come a time when there is no life in this universe.

But the form that life takes will change.

As the body gives way to spirit, the spirit gives way to the body.

The time of homo sapiens may well be drawing to a close, but we are not the end of the great experiment.

I have faith that all these moments won't be lost in time, but will return to the heart of the one who loves them best.

And in her heart, they will not merely survive, but live.