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The 2018 Boots Riley masterpiece Sorry to Bother You — one of my favorite films of the past 20 years, that should in my opinion be required viewing for all high school seniors poised to enter the no-win slap fight that is late-stage capitalism. A stomach-turning scene in the first episode of HBO’s Succession, In the scene, the Roman Roy character (played to unctuous, blood-boiling perfection by Kieren Culkin) writes a check for a life-changing $1M to a bystander kid which he’ll only give him if the kid hits a home run in the…