Sypnosis - SYNOPSIS FOR MOVIE ANALYSIS \"SORRY TO BOTHER YOU\" PDF

Title Sypnosis - SYNOPSIS FOR MOVIE ANALYSIS \"SORRY TO BOTHER YOU\"
Author Precious Ofoezie
Course Introduction to Sociology ii: Sociological Inquiries
Institution University of Toronto
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Summary

SYNOPSIS FOR MOVIE ANALYSIS "SORRY TO BOTHER YOU"...


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SYNOPSIS

A young African American know as Cassius green is unemployed and therefore unable to pay rent while living at his uncle's garage with his girlfriend, Detroit. Eventually, he manages to get a job at a telemarketing company called RegalView. Even though in the job interview his boss recognizes he had lie on his CV but gave him the job anyways because he had got initiative and can read. "initiative here meaning: The willingness to lie to get what you to" This means appearing to follow the scripts while simultaneously doing whatever it takes to make a sale, to close that deal and make a profit even if it means lying.

At first, it was difficult for Cash to make sales until a co-worker teaches him the secret to success in finding and using a "white voice" in order to succeed in the company's sales efforts. Cash soon finds he has got a knack for it, and this quickly propelled him to the rank of "Power Caller", a luxurious suite upstairs were elite salespersons make deals selling weapon and slave labour. Cash's guided by a welldressed man known otherwise as Mr. _____ (Omari Hardwick), explains the

process: "Before a drone drops a bomb on an apartment building in Pakistan, who drops the bomb-ass sales pitch?" This Power Caller pitch reveals the multiple connections and dislocations enabled by capital, technology, and violence and the controversial company called WorryFree being their biggest client

WorryFree is a controversial company that offers lifelong security for workers who live and labor onsite under conditions in what many we call modern-day slavery in effect. With Cassius's new position comes a more insight into the scope of corporate corruption and abuse due to the nature of cassius sales pitch for weapons and slave labour as well as entry into a disturbing plot by the company WorryFree to produce dehumanize workforce i.e turning humans into equisapiens.

Cash eventually navigates his way up the socio-economic ladder as he secures contracts for the company WorryFree while his personal life and relationships is thrown into disarray. Has he risk losing his artist and activist girlfriend (Detroit, played by Tessa Thompson who is also an art performer) as well as his friends and

co-workers who took an issue with his new shady occupation and his lack of participation in his co-worker’s attempts to unionize at RegalView...


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