1 of 5 | From left to right, Naomie Ackie, Taylour Paige and Keke Palmer star in "I Love Boosters," in theaters Friday. Photo courtesy of Neon
LOS ANGELES, May 21 (UPI) -- I Love Boosters, in theaters Friday, is a surreal satire and hilarious rallying cry against capitalist inequality. Writer/director Boots Riley breaks the narrative rules with surgical expertise to push boundaries without losing the audience
Corvette (Keke Palmer) leads the Velvet Gang of boosters, shoplifters who steal couture and resell it for a fraction of the corporate take. Their main target, Metro Designers, and its CEO Christie Smith (Demi Moore), leads to metaphysical devices and biting social commentary.
Metro Designers does not only exploit the customers it overcharges for fashion. They also exploit their own staff (Eiza Gonzalez and Najah Bradley) and the workers in their Chinese factories.
The Boosters' methods are already comical. The sight of them hobbling out of a store with their tracksuits stuffed with off the rack items is a perfectly executed sight gag.
