Barney's Great Adventure (1998)

This reboot of The Wonder Years is told from the lens of a Black man.

Telling a story about the French and Indian Wars from the perspective of the British prioritizes the perspective of the colonizers. 

Black Christmas movies are few and far in between to find — so it is wonderful to see more representation on the screen just in time

We can criticize depictions from old media, but they weren’t simply “good for their time”. They were fighting and struggling in a world we can’t imagine.

This short film was an overall creative success.

Sorry to Bother You ultimately speaks to the unfair advantages that the country’s power structures award to those with the resources to control others, as Lift’s easy access to the media allows his opinion to be the only one that matters in the eyes of the unsuspecting and easily impressed public. Moreover, it reveals the extent to which the American Dream has any true validity. It postulates how the promise of success and fulfillment as promoted by the American Dream more often than not leads to the undoing of the individual. Interestingly, in its revealing of the American Dream as merely a facade, Sorry to Bother You wisely questions whether or not anything can really be done to undo a system that has been accepted and in action for centuries.