In ancient Egyptian mythology, a dead person's soul would be weighed against the feather of truth in a ritual called a psychostasy. If their soul was lighter than the feather, it would ascend into the afterlife. Heavy souls were devoured by Maat, eater of the dead. Good films go to hard drive heaven while the recycle bin eats the rest.
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Thursday, July 14, 2011
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
A crime film by Melvin Van Peebles.
A black man is arrested for a crime that he did not commit. On the way to the police station, the police arrest another black man and beat him. The first black man then beats up the cops. The rest of the film is him running from the cops to the Mexican border.
The characters were unidentifiable and the plot was very sparse. The soundtrack appeared to be one jazz/funk/r&b/soul song played over and over. The production value was very low, even for the time when it was made. There's not much else to say, but to rate this bad.
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