Sorry to Bother You is very surreal. Kind of Brazil-esque as he moves up the corporate chain which gets weirder at every step. Funny too.
the story of Brazil isn’t very surreal but the design touches like their steampunk computers and shoe hats are.
got any of that in sorry to bother you?
dreamlike flights of fancy?
Putney Swope is probably weirder and likely more subversive and even it isn’t surreal although some of Robert Downey Sr.’s other films are.
Also, the lead black man in PS wasn’t good at line delivery and his fellow black actors weren’t happy that in spite of it, he still got the lead role. In the end Robert Downey Sr. overdubbed the black actor’s voice with his own.
Now that is a surreal turn on “white phone voice”, no?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPgId7RgQ2E