Bonus: Boss Baby
I watched Boss Baby because they discussed it on Chapo this week, and I have to be honest - there was more weird there than I was prepared for. Thankfully, Honest Trailers has already done the heavy lifting for this one, so I can just vent a little. Boss Baby's insane premise is that we live in a world where love is a finite resource, reserved for the inordinately young, cute and successful, i.e. babies, puppies and CEOs, who in turn have to fight over every last slice of the affection market. So it should come as no surprise that the protagonists of this movie are a paranoid-schizophrenic 7-year-old and an emotionally crippled corporate manager. Or at least, that would be my diagnosis. Together, they go on an adventure that looks fun and cartoon-y, but is in fact a candy-coloured nightmare ride through the bleak, spiritually stunted wasteland that is late-capitalism. The kind of thing Adam Curtis would come up with if he took a bunch of acid and fell into a birthday cake. Or something. I was never quite sure what I was watching, I just know that once it was over, I badly needed a hug. And not in a good way.