Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

Aroview: The 'blaxploitation' classic that is often celebrated as ostensibly the first film truly created by a black person in America, starring "The Black Community" and "Rated X by an All White Jury".

Produced, written, directed and starring Melvin Van Peebles, this concerns a desirable street dude who is forced to leave his job in the sex industry and go on the run after dusting up a few rascist cops. Thence stringing together various episodic encounters with crims, bikies, voodoo-ists and other assorted American weirdos, this struggles to find narrative coherence, but has a certain funky dream logic. Of course, as with all 'blaxploitation', the music is excellent, in this case by Earth, Wind and Fire.

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