Sorry to Bother You
As a satire, this is a sharp edge. As a film, it's kind of Dear White People meets Airplane! meets The Science of Sleep with a lower budget than any of these. I've gotten so used to watching low budget films that put money into editing and has high production values, that this was a surprise. The ambition is high, the comedy is spot on and the surrealism is fantastic... but the ambition aims higher than the production values. It feels cheap. The editing is spotty, the sets are cluttered, the overdub is like Italian cinema.
Still, the thinking and humor are so spot on in this film that it is hard not to enjoy. Some of the ideas, like low level living/working facilities with dorm rooms to sleep in (like they have in China) seem like the next move for capitalism, if corporations are given the freedom to do this. Then it moves beyond this to a Bunuel concept. It is packed full of satire and truly funny comedy and surrealism that I will forgive it some production missteps.
4/5