"Rising to the occasion of the rampant anti-Black racism stateside, Melvin is acute enough to be the first black filmmaker to make a meal of it, he knows he must do it fast, to beat everybody else to the punch, so SWEET... foregoes any deliberation on characterization and complexity, goes for broke with its impassioned, anti-police subversion that is exactly what its core audience needs to see and react with. Viewed today, its strength resides solely in the rawness and explicitness of its images and ideology, and the boldness of Melvin's insurrectionary spirit, since from the technical aspect, SWEET... is an amateur's scattershot and slapdash patchwork at its best, but like Sweetback, the film itself is also an outlaw triumphantly escaping from extraneous suppressions, which bestows it its due import historically, culturally and politically."
read my full review on my blog: Cinema Omnivore, thanks.
read my full review on my blog: Cinema Omnivore, thanks.