Strangled for walking the right way-"Judas and the Black Messiah"

Tamia 2021-12-28 08:02:30

Today we will talk about the movie "Judas and the Black Messiah".

The title is Judas and the Black Messiah / Jesus Is My Homeboy (2021), alias Jesus is my accomplice / Judas and the Black Messiah (Taiwan) / Jesus was my brother / Jesus is my companion.

I noticed this film last year. At that time, I saw foreign media appraising the "Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021", and a total of 45 films were listed. "Judas and the Black Messiah" is in it.

If you have a little understanding of the "Bible" story, you should not be unfamiliar with the "Judas" and "Messiah" in the title.

Judas is the traitor who betrayed Jesus for 30 silver coins. Messiah is another title for Jesus. Messiah is derived from the Hebrew word māshīah, which means "anointed". The Greek word translates it into christos, which leads to "Christ" (Christ), so "Messiah" is "Christ".

But at that time, the translation of this film was called "Jesus is My Companion". My first impression was that it was a fantasy movie with a big chaos, and I didn't rush to watch it. It was only a few months after it was released.

If the original name is literally translated, the translation into "Judas and the Black Savior" will be more straightforward. This can directly name the relationship between the characters through the title, and it will not give people the wrong impression.

I hope everyone will not be misled by the translation and miss this good film.

"Judah and the Black Messiah" tells the story of the process by which Fred Hampton, the vice chairman of the Black Panther Party, a black American society in the 1960s, joined the social movement until he was designed and killed by the US government.

The Black Panther Party is the closest movement to the liberation of workers in American modern history, and it is also a social organization that has been severely cracked down by the US government.

In 1966, the Black Panther Party was founded in Oakland, California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. They opposed the capitalist US government and advocated the realization of socialism through the long-term movement of ordinary people. They formed their own armed forces, reformed the black community, provided free breakfast, education and medical care for poor children, and tried to fight against capitalism through organized movements.

They armed themselves in accordance with Chairman Mao's teaching of "Government from the barrel of a gun". The source of funding for the Black Panthers is also very interesting-through reselling "Mao Xuan". Purchase for 20 cents, sell for 1 dollar, and then buy guns by earning the difference.

The Black Panther Party is organized, has a program, and is guided by the ideas of great men. All this scares the capitalists. The U.S. government ignored the legal constraints and tried every means to strangle the Black Panther Party, which further demonstrated the correctness of the Black Panther Party.

In order to eliminate the Black Panther Organization as quickly as possible, the US government used both soft and hard and various dirty methods.

The tough methods are as shown in the film. The framing and framing are only pediatric tricks. In order to disintegrate and divide the Black Panther Party from the inside, the FBI has successively inserted informants and placed several murders on the informants. In this way, the FBI can firmly control the informant on the one hand, and destroy the image of the Black Panther Party on the other hand.

It can be described as extremely insidious.

Soft knives are magical facts in reality.

The cartoonist hastily created the comic image "Black Panther" according to the Black Panther Party. The noble king who walked out of the primitive African savannah Wakanda gave the black brothers a vague fantasy. It seems that the black ancestors of the black people possessed the black technology of the enemy's country and the mysterious vibrating gold. Shout "Wakanda forever" to gain "strength."

This consumes the will of the blacks from the cultural level. A few years later, he even devoted himself to filming a "Black Panther", and he did not hesitate to praise and coax the big black brothers into a happy heart.

Occasionally overcoming oppressively, the black life expensive, zero-dollar shopping campaign will be launched urgently to provide black people with a targeted way to release their emotions.

Anyway, as long as there is no organization, no program, and casual blacks are making noise, everything is easy to say.

It is precisely this that shows the greatness of Fred Hampton.

He clearly saw the crux of the problem. Martin Luther King’s non-violent model had no deterrent effect. When the white man put a gun on the black head, the black man had nothing to do. Only by arming yourself can you liberate yourself.

The Black Panthers chose the right way to fight, which made the US government feel scared. The FBI has spared no effort to slander and suppress, which proves the correctness of the Black Panther Party.

The Black Panther Party has even been able to unite all forces that can be united. Minorities such as the Red Neck and Puerto Rico are the targets of their unity. Anyone with a bit of a brain can see that this will be an extremely powerful force.

Daniel Kalua played out the character status very well. In the speech, he is generous and domineering, shy, restrained, and cautious in front of his lover.

He is burdened with the heavy responsibility of the black savior. He took the banner of the former chairman, united class brothers and partners, and continued to lead the organization in struggle, putting his life and death aside. In him, we can see a very familiar temperament of a revolutionary martyr. Unfortunately, his life stopped at 21 years old.

Rickis Steinfeld, who plays William O'Neill, is another main actor in the film.

He said in an interview that after playing William O'Neill, he needed treatment.

After all, if you play the villain too well and too well, it will have a lot of negative effects on the actors.

The calculating capitalists are extremely proficient in a set of murderous tricks.

It is not only necessary to put an eyeliner on the Black Panther Party, but also to divide the hatred among the blacks. William O’Neal was first used as an eyeliner and inserted into the Black Panther Party. After the Black Panther Party was almost dead, William O’Neal had to be taken out to whip the corpse and drain the last drop of remaining value.

Although his uncle claimed that he was "full of guilt" for cooperating with the FBI, William O'Neill claimed in several interviews that he had "no loyalty" to the Black Panthers.

On January 15, 1990, William O'Neal was found dead after a crash on Interstate 290, at the age of 40. Before the accident, William O'Neill tried to jump out of the window on the second floor, but was stopped. Although his death was convicted of suicide, his wife claimed that it was an accident.

Regardless of whether he feels guilty or not, I feel that this kind of scourge is not enough. Two devils are more hateful than devils, and traitors are more hateful than enemies. Everyone is creating a better tomorrow for their colleagues, but some people will be the dog leg of the enemy.

This film and another movie "The Trial of Seven Gentlemen in Chicago" took place at the same time. Both films were nominated for the 93rd Oscar for Best Picture.

In "Judas and the Black Messiah," the Black Panther Party chairman Bobby Hill was humiliated in court.

The murder of Fred Hampton is also mentioned in "The Trial of Seven Gentlemen in Chicago".

Fred Hampton's widow and posthumous child

Talk about some of the highlights in the film:

1. The powder that Bill O’Neill gave to Fred Hampton is actually Second, a barbiturate used to treat insomnia.

2. In the scene where Fred Hampton was killed, Fred Hampton slept on a well-covered bed. In real life, he sleeps on a bare mattress.

3. The Oscar allows each voting member to decide for himself which category the actor's performance belongs to, whether it is a leading role or a supporting role. This is where the seemingly dual protagonist set "Judah and the Black Messiah", the two protagonists, Lakeith Stanfield (Lakeith Stanfield) and Daniel Kaluuya (Daniel Kaluuya) both won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor Nominate.

4. "Judas and the Black Messiah" finally won the best supporting actor by Daniel Kaluya, and the song "Fight for You" won the best original song.

5. This is the first film of two or more African-American producers nominated for Oscar for Best Picture. This is also the first best picture nomination for an all-black producer.

6. During the raid by the Chicago Police Department and the FBI, the police fired 80 shots, but members of the Black Panthers only fired one shot. This shot was still from the muscle contraction of the member after being killed by the police.

The most promising struggle,

Was strangulated for walking the wrong way.

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  • Nakia 2021-12-28 08:02:30

    Quite provocative film. I have been thinking, if African civilization is at the forefront of human history, would the blacks also enslaved the whites, should they be, because this is the law of history.

  • Issac 2022-04-24 07:01:16

    Political power emerges from the barrel of the Black Panther Party's gun, and it organizes studies on protracted warfare and guerrilla warfare. There are indeed many modern political parties and ideologies derived from the three Abrahamic religions. If it is true that they are universally applicable, why didn’t the red neck, old Mexican, Italian, and Irish people at the bottom join hands with the Black Panther Party to transform the United States.

Judas and the Black Messiah quotes

  • Bill O'Neal: These motherfuckers ain't no terrorists. Shit, they're terrorizing me.

  • Fred Hampton: Reform - it's just the masters teaching the slaves how to be better slaves.