Uh... wow. I am really not sure what this film is. Lakeith Stanfield plays Cassius Green, a down on his luck guy just looking to make ends meet and hang on to his girlfriend. He gets a job in telemarketing, discovers (with some coaching by Danny Glover) that he can use his "white voice" and becomes extremely successful. But with success, he needs to decide what is really important to him, evaluating the whether the wealth that he has always strived for is really what he values. So in many ways, this is a classic rags to riches to existential crisis story. But the world which this takes place in pushes the buttons of slavery, bioengineering ethics, race and class struggles in ways that are strange and wonderful. While being billed as a comedy, I think this will probably struggle for viewers because it asks you to really think and consider value... which is not what most people look for in summer film, or even comedy.
4 stars (out of 5)
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