Boots Riley On The Writers Strike, Organized Labor, And His New TV Show
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The Difficulty of Making Movies About Working Class Issues
Sally Kohn: I'd love to hear from you why you think we see so few cultural products really from the sort of cultural industries that actually struggle with the class struggle. Just the first part in my experience, nobody disagreed with the movie. The thing that people had problems with were the horse dicks. That's the main thing. And even to this day there have been no critique except for maybe some national review guy that disagreed with the politics of it. They disagreed with the style and the turn at the end. It took me seven years to get it made, but that for an indie movie is like what happens, right? Sure, sure.
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