I heard that it is pretty blatant in it's historical revisionism vis a vis the political inclination of the black panther party, but I haven't seen it to corroborate that.

Edit: okay, after reading the directors interview with GQ and reading some other comments it seems like i might have been completely wrong lol. Very excited to watch it now

  • DasKarlBarx [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Literally just turned it on 10 min ago.

    They've already used the "we don't fight capitalism with black capitalism" video of Fred Hampton. They had Sheen (playing Hoover) say the Panthers are the biggest threat to the US, not the Soviets or the Chinese (which I think he did say in a letter). Kaluuya's (Hampton) first time on screen he gave a speech about reform not doing anything and revolution coming from the barrel of a gun.

    They showed the educational classes and talk about them setting up breakfast programs and hospitals and their goals of feeding every child in Chicago. I'm not far in but they've nailed them so far.

    Edit: just finished and there was 0 flattening of Hampton or the party's politics imo. I thought it was a great movie and the best depiction of an actual revolutionary that I have maybe ever seen. Def in a movie that big.

    2nd and last edit: I think the real test will be two of my friends who are watching it tonight. One is left-ish and the other is pretty ideologically incoherent. So if they can tell hes a communist/anti-capitalist revolutionary I think it won't just be the background knowledge I had that made it good.

    • NorthStarBolshevik [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Sounds to me like sometimes the online left just wants to hate everything. We are getting a major film where the hero is a black socialist revolutionary and the bad guy is the US government.

      I'll watch it for myself this weekend but I am pumped.

      • hazefoley [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        It all filters down from Matt and Will who have a type of movie they really like, usually a gritty crime movie or a dumb action movie from the 80s. Don't think I've seen Matt say a movie was good since he started the cushvlogs

        • Pirate [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          That is great! I watched it myself and gonna recommend it to a couple of friends. I think I'm gonna try to talk with them about the US's fascism.

    • RedArmor [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Hoover said the panthers were the greatest internal threat to the United States in a letter like you mentioned.

      I am scared to watch it because I get extremely inspired by Hampton