Quarantine Watch #677: Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

The acting here from is phenomenal specifically from Daniel Kaluuya, Dominique Fishback, and Lakeith Stanfield. Lil Rel Howery was also fantastic in his one scene. The film is really effective about showing how abusive J. Edgar was of his powers in in the FBI and how horrendous the assassination (the scene where it happens is just heart breaking) of Fred Hampton was. Everything that was presented regarding the Black Panthers by the government made them seem so much more a danger than they actually were and it is a really dark shame on society. It’s so crazy that he was only 21 when he did all of this.

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