Rating  - Genius!!!
i can't tell you, you have to watch and use your cognitive thinking skills. hopefully, your synapses will fire and connect and you too, like me, will be amazed and angered alternatively. amazed because, well, like i said: watch! angered because the PTB(powers that be) realized that giving widespread release of ANY chas. burnett material would encourage people to think about themselves and the world's conditions and ultimately do something righteous! THANX for listening!!!
Rating - The Raw Power of Film
Someone once said that you only truly witness art two or three times in your life... art that changes you completely, art that transforms your world.
So if you've got any left in you, be sure you see this film. I saw it rather accidentally I was on a three day vacation in a mountain cabin. But the damn place had satelite television. I had no intention of sitting in front of a screen, but once this film started I could not turn away.
Unfortunately, too many reviewers give away vital pieces of the film, or cannot construct a coherent sentence.
All you need to know is that this is a vital piece of American culture that should be viewed by everyone. What is most profound about this film is that, while about the poverty-stricken black experience in Los Angeles, it is NOT about race. It is not about injustice in the political system. It is not about socioeconomic conditions.
This film is about humanity, and it's so refreshing to see an artist work at this level; with no axe to grind, no sacred cows to slaughter.
The ending is so profoundly beautiful, that it nearly brings me to tears remembering it.
See it. Now.
Brutus
Echo Detained
Rating  - A visual poem
Shot in the early 1970s in Watts as Charles Burnett's MFA master's thesis and later hailed by critics as a masterpiece, it has never been released theatrically until now. Lovingly restored, it is a profound visual poem depicting poverty and listlessness among urban African-Americans, both timeless and perfectly expressing its time. Burnett shot the film himself, and dozens of the images he captured caught my breath with their off-kilter candor.
Rating  - Overrated.
Pretty pumped when I bought this... but it's pretty dismal overall. I thought I could handle the poor plot, but I couldn't. I'll go to the playground if I want to watch a bunch of little kids throw rocks at each other. Oh well... Not that it is without it's merits, just not for everyone.
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