10 Movies That Are Totally Different By The End
2. Sorry To Bother You
How It Starts
Sorry to Bother You starts off as an apparent workplace satire in the vein of Office Space, albeit from the perspective of the Black experience, as our protagonist Cash (Lakeith Stanfield) gets a job as a telemarketer and adopts a white accent in order to perform better.
How It Ends
For most of the movie, we observe Cash rising through the company's ranks and, as he becomes wealthy, seemingly abandoning his prior pro-worker idealism.
But writer-director Boots Riley pulls a sharp handbrake turn in act three, when Cash attends a party held by his company's CEO, Steve Lift (Armie Hammer), and discovers a group of human-horse hybrids shackled up. Yep, you read that right.
It turns out Lift is using a gene-modifying power to transform his employees into "Equisapiens" who are stronger and more obedient, and therefore generate more money for the company.
At film's end, Cash himself begins to sprout horse-like nostrils and then leads an army of revolting Equisapiens to break down the front door of Lift's home.
Did a single living soul see such an insane shift coming, from black comedy to surreal fantasy sci-fi?