"Judas and the Black Messiah" -- same bullshit has continued for fifty years. Same exact bullshit. It's disheartening.
What's interesting to me is that Hampton was only 21 years old when he died. Most 21 year olds are still working in McDonald's nowadays or wondering what the hell they will do with their lives. It's also mind-boggling he was able within a year to find common ground and bring together three or more disparate Chicago groups together, at his age.
The film itself focuses more on O'Neal, the arm-twisted informant, who seemed ambivalent towards everything -- highly invested and actually more of a reactionary in his mole role, yet while simultaneously not feeling like he cared at all and setting up (most likely) the police raid. He committed suicide by traffic at age 41, the day his interview aired in a documentary. It sounds like he never got over his part in all this.
Film quality itself is decent. Nice cinematography. Decent acting.
"Judas and the Black Messiah" -- same bullshit has continued for fifty years. Same exact bullshit. It's disheartening.
What's interesting to me is that Hampton was only 21 years old when he died. Most 21 year olds are still working in McDonald's nowadays or wondering what the hell they will do with their lives. It's also mind-boggling he was able within a year to find common ground and bring together three or more disparate Chicago groups together, at his age.
The film itself focuses more on O'Neal, the arm-twisted informant, who seemed ambivalent towards everything -- highly invested and actually more of a reactionary in his mole role, yet while simultaneously not feeling like he cared at all and setting up (most likely) the police raid. He committed suicide by traffic at age 41, the day his interview aired in a documentary. It sounds like he never got over his part in all this.
Film quality itself is decent. Nice cinematography. Decent acting.
"Judas and the Black Messiah" -- same bullshit has continued for fifty years. Same exact bullshit. It's disheartening.
What's interesting to me is that Hampton was only 21 years old when he died. Most 21 year olds are still working in McDonald's nowadays or wondering what the hell they will do with their lives. It's also mind-boggling he was able within a year to find common ground and bring together three or more disparate Chicago groups together, at his age.
The film itself focuses more on O'Neal, the arm-twisted informant, who seemed ambivalent towards everything -- highly invested and actually more of a reactionary in his mole role, yet while simultaneously not feeling like he cared at all and setting up (most likely) the police raid. He committed suicide by traffic at age 41, the day his interview aired in a documentary. It sounds like he never got over his part in all this.
Film quality itself is decent. Nice cinematography. Decent acting.
"Judas and the Black Messiah" -- same bullshit has continued for fifty years. Same exact bullshit. It's disheartening.
What's interesting to me is that Hampton was only 21 years old when he died. Most 21 year olds are still working in McDonald's nowadays or wondering what the hell they will do with their lives. It's also mind-boggling he was able within a year to find common ground and bring together three or more disparate Chicago groups together, at his age.
The film itself focuses more on O'Neal, the arm-twisted informant, who seemed ambivalent towards everything -- highly invested and actually more of a reactionary in his mole role, yet while simultaneously not feeling like he cared at all and setting up (most likely) the police raid. He committed suicide by traffic at age 41, the day his interview aired in a documentary. It sounds like he never got over his part in all this.
Film quality itself is decent. Nice cinematography. Decent acting.
This is definitely on my list of things to watch. I did watch a documentary about the Black Panthers recently, though.
Now I know what I'm going to watch tonight!
Definitely putting this on my list. I recently listened to a podcast about Fred Hampton's life, then I watched Trial of the Chicago 7, which includes Fred Hampton as kind of a side story. Crazy that he was so young - he would have been mentioned in every conversation alongside influential leaders like Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X if he had led a full life.
Yes. I liked the movie but I think for so many people, even the way this time period is famed is warped. Reading the transcripts of the Chicago 7 trail vs watching the movie is a good option too. All of these historical events are very much of this moment, right now. Fred Hampton was an organizer of almost superhuman ability for the time. Of course assassinating him was the only option the establishment had.
It might be too late now, but I think it leaves HBO Max tonight at 2am or so. So if you guys want to see it free on that streaming service, you should start watching now. it's about 2:12 hours long.
"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" is still on Netflix probably forever.
I suspected it would still find reflections in what was currently happening (since the movie is being made now) but it was disappointing and yet eye-opening to see. We don't know shit about our own history, which is one reason why we continue to relive it; Americans are so damn historically illiterate, aside from our broad vague ideas of what "patriotism" is. Not all of this problem is necessarily the individual, although a lot of us (and I include myself) don't push ourselves to dig through everything; some of it is systematic repression of knowledge by the power structures that disregard those details or don't really want them to be known. There is no reason I should have never heard of the Tulsa riots when I was coming through school. History is kind of a joke... and that's even the better textbooks, there are some states that promote alternate views of history that prevent this stuff from ever being dealt with. I am always amazed when I run across a new bit of history I had no idea about previously.
I'm not super-informed on the Chicago 7, I started watching the film and planned to get back to it, but hadn't. Also, there's the thing where these are dramatic tellings, so then I feel inclined to read about the history to correct any misperceptions I picked up in a dramatized film; the film more provides me with a direction to motivate further reading. But this is all something people have to work for, to inform ourselves. Until today I didn't even realize Hampton existed; now I'm kind of blown away. I also grew up in a locale where the Black Panthers were just spoken of poorly (and then by the time I reached adulthood, they had disbanded, so I went blithely on my way, but it was really interesting to me to see Hampton instituting all the free social help for people, like providing breakfast for kids.
It might be too late now, but I think it leaves HBO Max tonight at 2am or so. So if you guys want to see it free on that streaming service, you should start watching now. it's about 2:12 hours long.
"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" is still on Netflix probably forever.
I suspected it would still find reflections in what was currently happening (since the movie is being made now) but it was disappointing and yet eye-opening to see. We don't know shit about our own history, which is one reason why we continue to relive it; Americans are so damn historically illiterate, aside from our broad vague ideas of what "patriotism" is. Not all of this problem is necessarily the individual, although a lot of us (and I include myself) don't push ourselves to dig through everything; some of it is systematic repression of knowledge by the power structures that disregard those details or don't really want them to be known. There is no reason I should have never heard of the Tulsa riots when I was coming through school. History is kind of a joke... and that's even the better textbooks, there are some states that promote alternate views of history that prevent this stuff from ever being dealt with. I am always amazed when I run across a new bit of history I had no idea about previously.
I'm not super-informed on the Chicago 7, I started watching the film and planned to get back to it, but hadn't. Also, there's the thing where these are dramatic tellings, so then I feel inclined to read about the history to correct any misperceptions I picked up in a dramatized film; the film more provides me with a direction to motivate further reading. But this is all something people have to work for, to inform ourselves. Until today I didn't even realize Hampton existed; now I'm kind of blown away. I also grew up in a locale where the Black Panthers were just spoken of poorly (and then by the time I reached adulthood, they had disbanded, so I went blithely on my way, but it was really interesting to me to see Hampton instituting all the free social help for people, like providing breakfast for kids.
I'm cranking through the Disney live action remakes en masse.
Beauty and the Beast is my favorite. Aladdin was much better than the curmudgeonly internet would have led me to believe. Dumbo was great, considering I always hated that cartoon one. Mulan was meh. There were no songs. I wanted songs. Maleficent/Maleficent 2 were great. Lion King was alright. Christopher Robin was cute.
Next up: Lady and the Tramp.
I am so glad I stumbled across your post today as I'd seen the icon for the movie on HBOmax over the past week or so but not knowing anything about it/looking into it hadn't checked it out. Just finished it; really enjoyed it and now know a tiny bit about something I knew nothing about prior.
Saw Inception. Shooting some of those scenes with 70 mm film was a perfect choice. Same Director who did Memento