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Judas and the Black Messiah 2021
Everything is done so well. The story, the characters, the emotions are all there.
Hampton is a revolutionary, the movie makes that point clear. But what is not made fully clear is what revolution he speaks of. It muddies his revolutionary ideology to the point where it only makes vague references to the core of his critique. Central to that ideology is the understanding of the inherent, unreformable exploitation in the capitalist system. The movie walks around that point many times but never embraces it.Translated from by -
Vagabond 1985
It seems that to run from the spectacle is to run towards isolation.
But this Camus quote seems the most fitting way to describe it…
“Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne. Nor yet a gift, a box of dainties designed to make you lick your chops. Oh No! It’s a chore, on the contrary, and a long-distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting. No champagne, no friends raising their glasses as they look…
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