"In writer / director Julian Glander's new animated sci-fi feature Boys Go to Jupiter, a young gig worker named Billy 5000 ( Planet Money's Jack Corbett) hoverboards his way through life in Florida with only one thing on his mind: he needs $5,000 and is willing to deliver as much food as it takes to make the cash. At first, the delivery guy's semi-magical, "let's get this bread" style of thinking seems to stem from his fixation on a hustlebro streamer's videos."
"Boys Go to Jupiter bears the musicality and playful, toylike aesthetic that much of Glander's work does, whether it's shorts like Tennis Ball on His Day Off or games like Art Sqool. But the new movie's focus on how the gig economy can warp people's lives also makes it feel wildly different thematically. That's especially true in moments where Boys Go to Jupiter zeroes in on the ways that food delivery platforms can dehumanize and shortchange their workers,"
"But when I recently spoke with Glander, he told me that it was never really his intention to make an anti-capitalist work of art. Glander wanted to make a movie about the connections that society seems to have lost since the height of the covid-19 pandemic. And he hopes that, in Boys Go to Jupiter, audiences find some inspiration to make art of their own."
Billy 5000 hoverboards across Florida as a gig food delivery worker determined to earn $5,000 by making as many deliveries as necessary. The film pairs a playful, toylike visual and musical style with a focus on how gig platforms can warp people's lives and relationships with money. Characters display odd, dysfunctional connections to cash, and food-delivery services are shown dehumanizing and shortchanging workers. Julian Glander draws on pandemic-era experiences and encounters with delivery workers for inspiration, while stating the story was not meant primarily as anti-capitalist. The film seeks to rekindle social connection and inspire artmaking.
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