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CS 107: Sorry to Bother You feat. Michael Brooks (@_michaelbrooks) (07/22/2018) (Patreon)

Published:
2018-07-28 13:08:44
Edited:
2018-07-29 22:49:15
Imported:
2024-11

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We welcome Michael Brooks, host of The Michael Brooks Show and cohost of The Majority Report with Sam Seder to discuss Sorry to Bother You, the recent movie by Boots Riley of the rap group The Coup. The Michael Brooks show can be found and supported at https://www.patreon.com/TMBS.


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Opening intro song is "Guillotine" by the Coup.


Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (piercedearsmusic@gmail.com)


Opening theme composed by T. Beaulieu. Closing theme composed by Dustfingaz (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRazhu_)

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Mtume Gant

Love the show. But I’m so surprised that so many on the left are finding substance in this film that is leftist “light” to the point of being a caricature of it. Why do I say this? It uses typical Hollywood exceptional outcast with special talent as the person who can truly lead the movement to its peak. A very individualist perspective. It ends up giving the concept the charismatic, special leader is needed for the movement to win and be successful. It also reduces the evil to a singular person. These are such Hollywood storytelling constructs, which in the Culture industry of capitalism is an acceptable trope for mainstream success. Leftist art isn’t just saying “I am leftist!” Its also in its form has to be radical like the films of Glauber Rocha or 60’s Godard. It’s just a moralism tale and pretty reductive. If you find your morals and join the people you can win. Really? The temptations of Capitalism and White Supremacy go far beyond or morals, it’s also our social engineering and the complications are for more nuanced than this movie oversimplifies them to be. The films “Happy ending” (yes I believe it’s happy even though he gets turned into a horse, I mean the horses are shown to be bad asses with brute strength), uses the same opium for the masses type false win that dupes a lot of these people to believe that simply going to a protest means you are “active”. This is like the new Norma Rae or like Warren Beaty’s Reds film , a liberalized version of leftism. Films like Blue Collar by Paul Schrader, even Silkwood do this much better. Plus cinematically it’s a mess, relies on Mike Judge like storytelling and terrible plot holes like Steve Yuen and Tessa Thompson’s relationship. Really surprised. I could say a lot more but I’ll be quiet. Still love the show. I just encourage people to watch more cinema from the actual left that’s been made before hailing this.

C Ozmun
>>14240836

I'd never heard of Glauber Rocha or Silkwood. Thanks for the recs!

Mtume Gant
>>14240836

Glauber Rocha is amazing. His films Black God White Devil, Entranced Earth and Antonio Das Mortes are true pieces of leftist cinematic art. He also has a great manifesto he wrote called the Aesthetics of Hunger. Its easy to google and find