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.