Haven't seen the movie, obvs - how is it?
For the most part, it's good. The FBI is clearly the bad guy. My only real issue is they mention socialism once in the beginning and then never mention it by name again. But other than that, good shit.
Whenever socialism's not on screen, all the other characters should be asking, "Where's socialism?"
I mean, the dude was a Maoist, an OG 'read theory' Guy, and the movie tries to frame him as an almost apolitical community organizer.
He quoted mao in the movie and they used one of his most famous speeches about revolution flowing from the barrell of a gun.
I didn't think it needed something every time he was on screen pulling some quote or waiving a red flag or something.
0.1% of people know it comes from mao so its safe to put in the movie as just a quote. People will go "wow cool quote" for a second and thats it. It means nothing to people that dont already know its from Mao and know Fred was a maoist so no one gets any idea about his actual political beliefs from that
There's also another scene where they say "comrade mao" when talking about tactics or some shit (IDK exactly the context it was a year ago when I saw it).
They don't hide that he's a leftist. Leftists can go in and realize it. Libs I know came out knowing it.
Short of the actors starting out every scene quoting some famous communist and citing who it was by idk what more they could do without making the actual movie worse.
The beckdel test except it's about characters not talking about socialism
Why doesn't socialism, the largest character, simply eat all the rest of the characters?
Best portrayal of a leftist revolutionary in a major motion picture imo. (I haven't seen the Che movie)
Che part 1 was good. Definitely worth the watch. Haven't seen part 2
It's one of my favorite movies, I've seen it like 3 or 4 times. I was pleased that they didn't whitewash Hampton into some liberal pacifist.
