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
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.
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.
