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 that the film was specifically targeting the Trump administration, although in the current political climate, I can totally see how it might be. But, Riley wrote the film a while ago during the Obama administration, so his criticism really doesn't have much to do with the party in power. We actually see in the film - the politicians are shown to just enable Worry Free and the "write to your elected officials" line is used with disdain, suggesting that the politicians really won't do much. So it's a much broader criticism of capitalism, and it speaks to the fact that, even under progressive administrations who might share some of Riley's ideas, the issue is with the entire system. Interestingly, there was apparently a line in the movie that said, "Worry Free is making America great again" even before Trump started using this line as his campaign slogan. They ended up taking out this line to avoid the film coming across as a form of protest specific to Trump's administration. I thought that was really interesting - its important to understand that the corporations in place which dehumanize and degrade hoards of people are only part of a greater capitalist system. When we only attribute it to a specific political party, I think this can lead to situations where we come to accept the same problem when we are in support of the administration, ignoring the fact that the same systems are in place and continuing to cause harm.