I Love Boosters Ending Explained: How Does Corvette Get Her Revenge on Christie?

‘I Love Boosters’ is an eccentric satire film that uses the fashion landscape to tell a bigger story about the power of community in the face of hellish capitalism. The story centers around Corvetta, a booster, who shoplifts from high-end stores and then sells the merchandise for lower costs in lower-income communities. Her own fashion-centric aspirations find an inspiration in Christie Smith, the designer whose work most often becomes the victim of her and her friends’ heists.

Therefore, she’s left bamboozled and seething with vengeance when the well-known designer ends up stealing one of her own designs. Consequently, Corvette, along with Sade and Mariah, decides to exact revenge on the designer in her slanted tower by pulling off a massive heist on an unprecedented scale. Fortunately for them, this becomes a possibility when they cross paths with Jianhu, a Chinese factory worker who owns a strange but powerful weapon. SPOILERS AHEAD!

I Love Boosters Plot Synopsis

Corvette is a booster, aka a shoplifter who steals merchandise and makes a profit by selling it for incredibly low prices. She operates out of a defunct fast-food place location while simultaneously harboring unaccomplished aspirations of becoming a fashion designer. Thus, Christie Smith, a designer she looks up to and often robs, remains an intrinsic if distant part of her everyday life. Once her and her friends’ heists get widespread enough, earning them the title of the Velvet Gang, they end up on Christie’s radar, but only to the extent of the designer insulting them on news coverage. Eventually, Corvette and her friends come up with a plan to rob the designer’s collections by getting a job at her flagship store, Metro Designers.

Their primary aim was to steal the 10k suits that Corvette had heard about when she had sneaked into Christie’s office during an ill-advised rendezvous. Although they aren’t able to find these luxurious suits, they do stumble upon a new Christie Smith design that is identical to a design the amateur fashion designer submitted to a fashion competition. The same competition that Smith ultimately won. For the same reason, Corvette decides to double down on her intentions to rob the Metro Designers outlet. However, when the time comes, she and her friends realize someone has already beaten them to it. The thief, discovered through CCTV footage, is a woman with a bag that seems to have the ability to vacuum every garment into its unending depths. Thus, it isn’t long before the trio pins down this elusive thief and kidnaps her to get some answers. The truth that awaits them is more absurd than they could have ever imagined.

As it turns out, the thief, Jianhu, is a worker from Qingdao, China, home to Christie’s foundational factory, where her designs are brought to life. The working conditions and pay in this factory are both abysmal, having already led to multiple deaths and cancer diagnoses. During their time at the factory, Jianhu and her cousin, Li Pan, discovered a couple of teleporters that the facility was experimenting with to lower shipment costs. When the conditions at Fuxin worsened, the cousins decided to steal the teleporters and put them to use for themselves. As a result, Jianhu has arrived in the state, with the other end of the teleporter back with Li Pan. Her goal is to empty out every Metro Designer store and send it back to Fuxin as leverage for the workers. Still, her amateur thieving ways are a surefire way to eventually get caught.

Therefore, Corvette and the others offer to help her out with the hesits in exchange for a 30% cut of the stolen goods. As a result, the Velvet Gang takes their attack on Metro Designers to a whole new level. Soon enough, Violeta, a coworker from the store, realizes what the women are up to. She wants them to join forces and help her and the other workers’ unionizing cause. With her unexpected expertise, the group also learns that the teleporter has more features, including a situational accelerator that improves the target and deconstruction, which returns it to the original parts of its sum. Still, the gang has no interest in joining Violeta’s cause. Instead, they set their sights on crashing Christie Smith’s fall fashion show, where they plan to publicly deconstruct her designs. Ultimately, things unravel in expected ways, revealing new secrets and bringing certain epiphanies.

I Love Boosters Ending: How Does Corvette Get Her Revenge on Christie?

At the start of the film, Corvette retains some semblance of hero-worshipping for Christie Smith. She admires her vision and her success as a fashion designer, and even internalizes many of her beliefs regarding the industry. For the same reason, it becomes all the more crushing to her when the high-end fashion designer turns around, steals her work, and then continues to belittle her over a series of thefts. However, as a filthy rich designer, who is thematically the literal embodiment of capitalist one-percenters, Corvette’s design and her ideas aren’t the only instance of theft that Chrisite engages in.

Christie’s clothes are produced in China, in the Fuxin factory, where workers’ rights are a joke. From underpayments to health hazards, the factory is guilty of many ethical overreaches. In a similar vein, her brand also mistreats its employees back in the States. The people working in Metro Designers, like Violeta, are grossly underpaid, allowed short breaks, and forced to spend parts of their paycheques on merchandise for uniforms. Simply put, Corvette isn’t the only one being wronged by the fashion designer, nor is her plight the most severe. While others like Violeta and the Fuxin workers go after Christie through protests and strikes, Corvette decides on a more tangible attack.

This means that on the night of the fashion show, the Velvet Gang isn’t the only one fighting against the proverbial machine. In the immediate aftermath of them crashing the fashion show, Corvette and her best friend, Sade, are given a bit of a chase. During this time, Sade makes Corvette realize that the injustices against her aren’t the entirety of the problem and that there is a bigger picture at play. As a result, when the booster returns to the fashion show, she has the ability to finally see what has been in front of her eyes this whole time. Even though their methods may be different, there are multiple groups of people around who all have the same end goal.

Corvette, Violet/the retail workers, and Li Pan/ the factory workers, all want the same thing: for Christie to stop hoarding the fruits of their mutual labor. From there, the solution is simple enough. The teleporter is equipped with a situational accelerator, which works to solve the target of its internalized conflict to turn it into a better and more effective version of itself. When pointed towards the crowds of protestors, both at the fashion show and at the Fuxin factory, to improve and harmonize their otherwise separate protests. As a result, Corvette’s final revenge comes in the acknowledgment of the communal struggle of every worker who has been wronged under Christie’s capitalist grasp. Once these people come together, they reveal the reality of the situation. The real power lies among the masses, the workers, and the laborers.

Does Jianhu Liberate the Fuxin Factory Workers?

Jianhu’s introduction in the story paves the path for a crucial addition to the conversation on labor in the fashion industry. Christie’s job and her success rely on her ability to sell the population the idea that her designs and art have a sense of transcendental worth. It’s aspirational and inspiring, and therefore, her ideas alone have more value than the physical labor that goes behind bringing those ideas to life. Such is the basis of her worldview and the nature of capitalism. Nonetheless, the truth remains: Christie and her ideas aren’t the real cogs running the ship. The workers at the Fuxin factory are among the foundational pieces of the puzzle that allow the designer’s art to see the light of day.

However, this same courtesy isn’t extended to them and their labor. The Fuxin workers are treated to absurd hours and pay. On top of that, they are routinely exposed to harmful substances that have proven to result in a cancer diagnosis or worse. Fuxin has already lost her aunt to the same and is now close to losing her mother. Initially, the workers’ attempts to protest are useless because the framework of the system has made it so they have to rely on it on an individual level. This makes communal action more difficult. However, this is solved by the teleporter’s situational acceleration beam, which allows the workers to band together as one voice without being torn apart by individual inconveniences or infighting.

In the end, it’s the community that saves the workers and allows them the ability to fight for their collective rights. Additionally, the teleporter’s deconstruction setting also ends up having a positive impact on many of the workers at Fuxin, such as Jianhu’s mother. The purpose of the deconstruction feature is to break down the target into the components that contributed towards its overall creation. Therefore, since labor is a tangible contributor to the creation of any item, the teleporter interprets it as a separate entity of its own. This means that whenever Corvette and the others blasted Christie’s merchandise with the deconstruction beam, the labor time is returned to the laborers. Consequently, this compensation takes away the injuries caused by the labor, including diseases and other medical conditions.

Who is Pinky Ring Guy? Does Corvette End Up With Him?

Pinky Ring Guy is a personality who remains a consistent part of Corvette’s storyline without ever really directly participating in the more conflict-heavy parts of the narrative. He seems to be present at every nondescript location the booster finds herself in, constantly in her periphery. The chemistry between them is established from the beginning, and it’s obvious that he’s interested in pursuing something romantic with her. However, there is something that perpetually holds Corvette back from throwing her hat in the ring with the mysterious man. If the rumors are to be trusted, Pinky Ring Guy is a very dangerous individual.

Notably, Corvette’s friends inform her that their sources have confirmed he has a pattern of sucking people’s souls out of their bodies by performing oral sex on them. At first, this seems like a metaphor employed to explain how he drains his partners, perhaps by lovebombing them or through a variety of other tactics. Nonetheless, as it turns out, there are no metaphors at play. During the fashion show, which the Velvet Gang sneaks into thanks to the Pinky Ring Guy, the latter shares a startling revelation with Corvette. He is a demon who has found himself on the mortal plane. Furthermore, he does, in fact, suck souls through cunnilingus/fellatio. However, he also shares another trivia about his unusual existence near the end of the story when Christie’s conflict has been resolved.

As it turns out, the Pinky Ring Guy has actually been cursed with the affliction of demonhood. However, there is a way out of this state. If someone were to truly fall in love with him, he couldn’t overcome his demonic side and become a real man again. Even though the premise has all the building blocks of a fairytale, Corvette is not interested in becoming the laboring princess to his tormented demonic monster. There might have been a time when she would have chosen the pursuit of a personal and complicated romance. Yet, she has no interest in entangling herself with soul-sucking demons, especially when there is better and healthier love to be found in community and camaraderies. Lastly, as per her own personal preferences, it would get pretty difficult to maintain a cunnilingus-free relationship. Thus, she ultimately decides against getting involved with Pinky Ring Guy, instead choosing her own happiness.

What Are the 100k Suits? Why Did Christie Make The Skin Suits?

Corvette learns about the 100k suits when she infiltrates Christe Smith’s office in her slanted tower. Initially, she and her friends assume that the suits are a part of some luxury collection. For the same reason, they’re eager to steal it and make a profit for themselves. However, at the fashion show, a different truth awaits them. After crashing the show, Corvette and Sade run into the backstage and backrooms to further destroy the merchandise. During this time, they happen upon a room where the 100k suits are apparently stored. Yet, in place of the suits, they only find a small group of people dressed in businesswear. The duo assumes their otherwise drab suits are the real deal and compels them to strip.

The reality that awaits them is much more horrifying than a casual suit with an exorbitant price tag. As it turns out, the suits Christie had made for these people weren’t actually wool and thread. Instead, they’re meatsuits that have been specially made for people who are without identity and in fact only meat, muscle, and bone. These skinless people aren’t strangers. Instead, they’re individuals the audience and the protagonist have encountered before. The skinless group is made up of people from all walks of life, from Dr. Jack, the pyramid scheme guy, to people on the news who are constantly complaining about the lack of raised prices and rents.

These individuals have always been a facade and a role played by the skinless group at the behest of Christie and other one-percenters like her. The fashion designer and others like her require a sense of division and delusion among the masses to keep the status quo in check. They need people to believe in various pillars of capitalism so that they can’t understand that they hold incredible power as the labor class. Thus, the skinless group is used as influencers and instigators who instill system-mandated propaganda and distractions into the population. Consequently, they need skin suits, worth 100 thousand dollars, to assimilate and pollute.