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

  • pooh [she/her, love/loves]
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    4 years ago

    This part of the interview seems particularly relevant to this thread:

    There's a moment early in the film where Hampton famously mentions socialism being the answer to capitalism rather than Black capitalism—which he calls a stopgap tactic, but not the solution. There’s a longstanding debate between people who lean into capitalism versus others who embrace socialism. What do you want people on both sides to take away from this film with regards to that specific conversation?

    I don't believe in Black capitalism. I don't think it works at all. All it does is empower a very minute percentage of Black people, which makes it useless. Capitalism is just self-serving, ultimately. And that's why we put that line at the top, just to let you know: "Nah." I know people assume, because it's a movie being distributed by Warner Bros., that we're going to make Fred Hampton a liberal or something. But I just wanted people to know, up front, that's not this movie. In terms of what we want people to take from it, I really do think Fred and the Panthers had the answers. So ideally, these are the heroes of our film. I want people to come away from this movie and learn about them and what they stood for and, hopefully, be as affected by their ideology as I have been.