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Roy Wood Jr. Comes Into Focus
Lonely Flowers is a reminder that we should all just pick up the phone and call.
Wood may be telling a joke about buying shoes at Foot Locker or the nostalgic weight of online account-security questions, but occasionally a wide shot pops up to remind viewers of the full-length backdrop behind him: a sunset-toned image of a hill with a single, darkly silhouetted flower at the top. But he’s even better when he slides into the point of view of the employee in those interactions, acting out the nervous energy of a private chef making omelettes at a weeklong sex vacation, the disdain of a grocery-store clerk who has to fix a self-checkout machine, or the inner monologue of a gun-store cashier responding to someone who wants to buy seven shotguns. The imagined gun-store cashier is explicitly about social connections, but it’s more broadly about gun control; a stretch on videos of fast-food-chain fights is ultimately a joke about how underappreciated and underpaid hourly workers are in this country.
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