Excellent things about I Love Boosters
- romantic subplot resolves in 'nah I'm good actually'
- movie about women is fundamentally about women but isn't pigeonholed genre-wise/speak down to women's experiences
-Oscar win for costume designer Shirley Kurata NOW
-weird as hell
-monster fucking scene!!!!
-fun secret mousekatool
-Keke Palmer is there! Because she's the lead!
-throwback typography
- fun stop motion surprise!
-Magical Realism is there again
-Eric Andre future-cop tank chase that feels like he didn't really know what was going on but he was living for it (me too, Eric)
- Boots Riley motifs emerging: unionization, proximity to whiteness as a tool, but at a cost (interesting how in this one not necessarily an effective one vs Sorry To Bother You it's the fundamental plot driver - I think this is because I Love Boosters is about race in that the main characters are all women of colour and the villains are white people but the focus is more the exploitation of labour narrative. Race is ambient and relevant to the plot but not a fundamental driver in comparison with Sorry To Bother You, which is specifically about a Black man's choice between community/personhood and wealth when proximity to whiteness is used to his advantage)
-lots of very explicit, would-be heavy handed commentary that doesn't come off like heavy handed commentary because So Much more is going on
- honestly it's just so refreshing to see a movie full of colour these days
-the 'sympathetic white woman' character archetype a la Rian Johnson in Jamie (this may be a stretch but I think it makes sense. She is much more minor a character but fundamentally plays the part of a white woman who doesn't agree with the villain but when ranks close, chooses proximity to power over solidarity)
-truly sososo fun
