And even from inside the bubble, she says that people question why they won't do slavery or poverty films, instead of, say, selecting that quirky yet disturbingly eye-opening Sorry to Bother You.

But Sorry to Bother You is about slavery and poverty!

Executives only read the summary.

Right -- you can say 'workplace horror comedy' and not explain the underlying topics.

3: "Workplace horror comedy" is a good description -- I keep wanting to call it a black comedy, which is both ambiguous and racist.

1: But I guess "slavery or poverty films" is supposed to indicate a genre not topics.

Not seen it, but it isn't about the historical experience of slavery, which is presumably what she meant.

Garth Marenghi: "I know authors who use subtext, and they're ALL COWARDS."

Right, it's not formulaic in its treatment of poverty or slavery. Also the faintest whiff of criticism of class structures.

Though I have to say that looking at current Hollywood output, the first thing that comes to mind is not "wow it must be really easy to get funding for films about the black experience of poverty and/or slavery".

Such absurd sums of money are being dumped on production for streaming services there may well be numerous slavery/poverty dramas which we've never heard of.

I hadn't seen STBY when the prior thread happened, but as a "black" movie it was really interesting to me how class-focused it was. I thought it presented racial issues through a class lens. It was a movie that a Bernie Bro could love.

The director is unfortunately a miserable son of a bitch who thinks the famine in Venezuela and the civilian dead in Aleppo are CIA fakes.