{"id":14163,"date":"2019-04-09T21:43:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T01:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=14163"},"modified":"2023-01-01T15:29:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T20:29:45","slug":"sorry-to-bother-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/sorry-to-bother-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry to Bother You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;I feel like these metaphors have not been cleared for this pep rally.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sorry to Bother You<\/strong>, released in 2018<\/p>\n<p>Cassius gets a new job as a telemarketer. The old guy next to him gives him a suggestion &#8212; use his &#8220;white voice.&#8221; Once he starts doing that, he makes a lot more sales. The guy in charge keeps saying he&#8217;ll soon become a &#8220;power caller&#8221; and get to move upstairs.<\/p>\n<p>This movie starts off weird, and it gets weirder. But it&#8217;s very clever, and it&#8217;s very funny.<\/p>\n<p>It takes the concept of doing things just for money to its logical extreme.<\/p>\n<p>Stars LaKeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, and the voice of David Cross. Directed by Boots Riley (his first movie).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;I feel like these metaphors have not been cleared for this pep rally.&#8221; Sorry to Bother You, released in 2018 Cassius gets a new job as a telemarketer. The old guy next to him gives him a suggestion &#8212; use his &#8220;white voice.&#8221; Once he starts doing that, he makes a lot more sales. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16,9,6,5],"class_list":["post-14163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-comedy","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14163"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14167,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14163\/revisions\/14167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}