The function of an artist is determined by the status, process, and agenda of the community already served. When an artist is tied to a bourgeois capitalist class, the resulting work reflects that class’s writing. As a culture worker belonging to an oppressed people, the job is to make revolution irresistible. I Love Boosters follows the Velvet Gang, young working-class Black women who steal from luxury stores and sell goods at discounted prices as survival. The story shifts into science fiction to emphasize worker solidarity against a capitalist system that exploits people. The film uses practical effects and bold color, but its dialogue and script feel heavy, with limited characterization.
"“The task of the artist is determined always by the status and process and agenda of the community that it already serves. If you're an artist who identifies with, who springs from, who is serviced by or drafted by a bourgeois capitalist class then that's the writing you do,” her response begins. “As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible.”"
"“An original movie under two hours that is committed to practical effects and a bold use of color in charting the journey of the Velvet Gang, a group of young, working-class, hard-up Black women stealing from the luxury stores of designer Christie Smith (Demi Moore) and selling the goods at a discount rate as a matter of crafty survival.”"
"“A story that ultimately dovetails into science fiction to convey the importance of worker solidarity against a capitalist system that brutally exploits us.”"
"“For how vibrant and buoyant the film's cinematography, production design, and costume design are, the script and its laborious dialogue are twice as leaden. It's a shame because for as shallow as I find the storytelling - in terms of the nonexistent characterization and admirable but trite political me”"
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