Panther

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Summary: TIME TO REPRINT THIS ESSENTIAL DVD!!!!!
Review: Yo, I've seen this on VHS several times and it never ceases to touch me. Sure, it takes some liberties in simplifying things but people don't seem to make that criticism when it supports their political views ... such are the realities of the narrative form necessary to movies, novels, etc. This isn't a dry, academic account. It asks you to identify with the Black characters in this film, and not with the FBI oreo or the white pigs. There are some elements here of the blaxploitation genre, of which Melvin Van Peebles (with his "Sweet Sweetback's Baaadaaassss Song") was an, or should I say THE, originator. No one would accuse "Sweetback" of being an "objective" account but it does grasp something real in the experience of Blacks in Amerikkka. The soundtrack CD to this movie, and the CD "Pump Ya Fist" (co-produced by Mario Van Peebles) are also essential!!!