Annemily's Blog

When we started Sorry to Bother you on Monday and the scene with Detroit’s performance started playing, I was really confused. I missed class on Thursday, so I had no idea what had happened in the last 45 minutes and I didn’t understand why people were throwing blood-filled water balloons at Detroit. I watched the rest of the movie today so I understand the context of the plot of the movie but I still have a lot of questions. Detroit quotes lines from The Last Dragon , which she describes as a “timeless Motown movie.” According to Wikipedia “the film was a critical disappointment but a financial success, and is considered a cult classic.” It’s about a black man who aims to become a great martial artist. In the scene Detroit quotes, a singer leaves her boyfriend because he’s kidnapped someone to help her career and she doesn’t want anybody to get hurt because of her. The theme of breaking up nicely reflects the state of Cassius’s and Detroit’s relationsh...

Even though Pyscho Loco had been planning it, I was still surprised by Gunnar’s marriage. One of the things that especially confused me was why Gunner’s mom was excited about it and totally on board. I realized that I don’t really understand her relationship with Gunnar that well, so I decided to review what we know so far in this post. In the first few pages of the novel we learn a lot about Gunner’s mother. She’s raised her kids alone after “a vicious custody battle that left the porcelain shrapnel of supper-dish grenades embedded in my father’s neck” (5-6). She works at a clinic that tests people for STIs for free. She’s mother is “a Brooklyn orphan who had never seen her parent or her birth certificate” (6). She holds the world record for the loudest swallow and she set it on the David Letterman show. She’s the one who tells Gunner all about his father’s family history, but she doesn’t tell him about the women in his father’s family even though she knows abou...