The Past Is Never Dead: The Story of William Faulkner (2023)

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By undermining the appeal and credibility of black characters, the show compromises the very idea of diversity and representation it sets to promote.

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.

Life may find a way, but is it worth testing its fierceness and how far it will go?

The film may be a thriller, but I wasn’t thrilled by it. If anything, I was bored and annoyed.