Word: sweetback
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...story is simple, but not simplistic. Sweetback (Van Peebles, the director) works as a performer in a brother. He makes his living displaying his sexual prowess for a racially mixed audience. The police "borrow" him from the brothel owner to serve as a generic black suspect...
...that is the correct spelling. Sweetback, for short, is the mother of all blaxploitation movies. Everyone from Shaft to Superfly (and maybe even Ice-T) owes their style to Van Peebles' rendition of Sweetback...
...atmosphere is set in the opening credits. Sweetback is dedicated to "all the brothers and the sisters who have had enough of the man" and it stars "The Black Community...
...they don't know who they're dealing with. Instead of passively standing by as they rough up a Black activist, a previously withdrawn Sweetback beats the white cops to death--using the very handcuffs that restrain...
...then he runs. The rest of Sweetback consists of a few more cop killings, a few more sexual encounters, and a lot of running. Sweetback seems to travel by foot all the way from Los Angeles to the Mexican border...