Frantz Fanon, born on this day in 1925, was a West Indian Pan-Africanist philosopher and Algerian revolutionary most known for his text The Wretched of the Earth.
Fanon was born to an affluent family on the Caribbean island of Martinique, then a French colony which is still under French control today. As a teenager, he was taught by communist anti-colonial thinker Aimé Césaire (1913 - 2008).
Fanon was exposed to much European racism during World War II. After France fell to the Nazis in 1940, a Nazi government was set up in Martinique by French collaborators, whom he describedas taking off their masks and behaving like "authentic racists".
Fighting for the Allied forces, Fanon also observed European women liberated by black soldiers preferring to dance with fascist Italian prisoners rather than fraternize with their liberators.
While completing a residency in psychiatry in France completing, Fanon wrote and published his first book, "Black Skin, White Masks" (1952), an analysis of the negative psychological effects of colonial subjugation upon black people.
Following the outbreak of the Algerian revolution in November 1954, Fanon joined the Front de Libération Nationale, a nationalist Algerian party. Working at a French hospital in Algeria, Fanon became responsible for treating the psychological distress of the French troops who carried out torture to suppress anti-colonial resistance, as well as their Algerian victims.
While organizing for Algerian independence in Ghana, Fanon was diagnosed with leukemia that would ultimately kill him. He spent the last year of his life writing his most famous work, "The Wretched of the Earth" (French: Les Damnés de la Terre). The text provides a psychiatric analysis of the dehumanizing effects of colonization and examines the possibilities of anti-colonial liberation
Following a trip to the Soviet Union to treat his leukemia, Fanon came to the U.S. in 1961 for further treatment in a visit arranged by the CIA. Fanon died in Bethesda, Maryland on December 6th, 1961 under the name of "Ibrahim Fanon", a Libyan nom de guerre he had assumed in order to enter a hospital after being wounded during a mission for the Algerian National Liberation Front.
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I enjoyed it a lot.
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I do not read this as a centrist movie at all. As you say it very clearly places the villain as a megacorp datacenter, but the criticism is valid. The liberal protestors are incredibly performative and are removed from any co sequence of the original issue. The right wingers are weirdo conspiracy freaks, one who literally murders his rival and his kid lol and is an massive dipshit the entire movie, and frames his only black deputy for the murder.Capital is the only winner in the movie. That the political theater of these idiots in the movie mean nothing and lack direction. It shows how easily the tech companies bailed on corporate dems (Ted Garcia) and fell right into these right wing freaks (Cross' Stepmom).
Nobody who had a real fucking problem in the movie received any help from anyone. Cross' wife was completely ignored and shit on from the start, and she left and joined a cult. The homeless pissed off The Mayor, the Sheriff, The liberal children, and everyone else before being randomly killed and never seen again.
Everyone in the film is trying to manipulate the suffering for their own game, whether it is their spouses' trauma for political gain, or the suffering of black people to impress a girl and sleep with her. The only thing that wins in this whole film is capital. It was never going to be affected at all.
The movie aint gotta say THE PROBLEM IS CAPITAL AND THE ONLY SOLUTION IS REVOLUTION lol. It is just saying that the events of 2020 were a farce, and capital won.
Seems lefty to me. Doesn't havent to explicitly advocate for revolution.
Anyway sorry for the rant. I enjoyed the movie a lot.
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I loved it too. My favorite part was that all levels of wonky conspiracy lead to right wing cults and white Supremacy. The movie captured 2020 american paranoia and how fast it spread and tore towns/cities apart well.I like that the movie didn't take a direct stand nor present any solutions. It ended at where we are today, we're all Joe unable to act; can only watch.