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I had heard of  Sorry to Bother You  prior to watching it in class, and I thought it seemed really cool if a little weird, but I was never expecting it to be what it ended up being - it was seriously one of the biggest mind trips that I have experienced watching any movie. As a lot of people have already talked about, what made it so insane was the fact that it started out fairly normal. Sure, it seemed a little bit off, but the world that Cash enters as soon as he is promoted completely changes everything. I looked the movie up on Wikipedia because I was curious as to what the general reception was, and it seems to have been really well received, which doesn't surprise me because regardless of how absurd it is, it was still objectively a really great film. What really interested me though, is something Boots Riley said, which is that the movie is not actually meant to specifically critique the Trump administration. I don't think I was ever necessarily under the impression tha...

White Boy Shuffle is funny. When the first line of the entire book threw around a level 3 expletive like it was nothing, I knew automatically that I would love it. Granted, the expletive in question is a super gross and misogynistic one, but for some reason I was kind of okay with it in this context. Maybe I'm wrong for that - let me know. But either way, the humor throughout the book is exactly the kind of humor that I love. It sarcastic and dry but at the same time it's fun. It's exaggerated and unrealistic, but it knows that and it doesn't care. It doesn't take itself too seriously, but it it's also conscious - it calls out things that are important, like police brutality or the issues with "multicultural" education. It sometimes feels like Beatty is writing just to write or like he gets caught up in his own imagination. The book is filled with details that are just unnecessary - it seems like their only function is to screw with us. But that's ...