An unusual interpretation of Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You”:

It’s hard for me to talk about Boots Riley. On one hand, I’ve been supporting and promoting his band The Coup for decades and was one of the first persons to predict “Sorry to Bother You” was going to be a one-of-a-kind movie. On the other, he’d recently been talking reckless about Venezuela and ignored every message polite and serious people sent him challenging his ridiculous views. And then, he deleted his Twitter account like a coward.

But that’s neither here nor there.

The point is I noticed something no one has talked about in “Sorry to Bother You”, the real message, a hidden layer of meaning.

So, SPOILER ALERT: Don’t advance if you haven’t watched “Sorry to Bother You”, mayor SPOILERS ahead.

The correct interpretation of that great movie, after the jump:

An unusual interpretation of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds”:

I gave this movie a casual second look and noticed something tremendous. I’m not claiming this was 100% Hitchcock’s intention, but “The Birds” (1963) can be seen this way: 

About “Successfull Alcoholics”, T.J. Miller and Lizzy Caplan

This short film is incredible and everyone should watch it, so I decided to publish “Successful Alcoholics” in this highly respected blog and ruminate about its stars Lizzy Caplan and T.J. Miller. But not to repeat myself,  let’s begin by quoting the formal information provided: 

Darth Jar Jar: the joke would have been on us

Are you familiar with the Jar-Jar-Binks-was-going-to-be-a-Sith-Lord theory?

After watching the video above, as far as I’m concerned it’s case closed: Jar Jar WAS The Phantom Menace. And the intense hate that the character generated in the public’s eye was such that George Lucas didn’t have the guts to follow trough with his vision and changed the whole thing. Diluted the whole thing. Another case of marketing studies destroying a work of art.

I remember how excited I was for a new Star Wars and the level of disappointment I left the theater with after that first prequel. And Jar Jar was a big part of it. This movies are for kids, I thought, as opposed to the for-the-whole-family affair that the original trilogy was. Looking back, admittedly from a vantage point, I can’t help but think that a Darth Jar Jar would have made everything worthwhile. Even the horrible CGI effects, the pod racing, and Hayden Christensen talking about sand. A reveal so huge that it would have shaken the planet out of its axis.

Nowadays they’re the butt of all the jokes, but the reputation of those three movies would be another thing entirely if you all haven’t broken George Lucas.  It would have been beautiful. The joke would have been on us.

Symbols in movies: “Don’t Bite the HAND that feeds you”

DETECTED in “American Honey” (2016): “Don’t Bite the HAND that feeds you“, with The Hand of Fatima (or Khamsa) as the main symbol, and inside it The All-Seeing Eye. Quoting this site:

The hamsa (Arabic: خمسة‎ khamsah, meaning lit. “five”) is a palm-shaped amulet popular throughout the Middle East and North Africa, and commonly used in jewelry and wall hangings. Depicting the open right hand, an image recognized and used as a sign of protection in many societies throughout history, the hamsa is believed to provide defense against the evil eye. The symbol predates Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

In jewish communities is known as The Hand of Miriam or Hamsa, which means “Five” as does Khamsa. It usually contents The All-Seeing Eye but rarely inside a pyramid. It’s worth noting that a hobby of the elites that control the planet and finance movies is the reversal, changing the meaning of ancient symbols to its diametrical opposite. Or so they say.

In the movie, the image only flashes for two or three seconds, a subliminal threat, an order: “Don’t Bite the HAND that feeds you“… Ehhhh, I mean, It’s obviously a random event or the work of a lone nut. You can’t trust those costume designers. Move along people, there’s nothing to see here.