While other members of the black movement of the 60s fought for black rights, sometimes reaching black racism, one of the leaders of the Black Panthers Fred Hampton suddenly started talking about real politics. He organized free breakfasts for children, set a goal to make the semi-criminal Panthers a real political force that could give real freedoms to the people enslaved by capitalism through free medicine and affordable education. He united with all the oppressed around him, from the poor white traditionalists to Puerto Ricans, which was almost unthinkable for the FBR sheep and seriously frightened them.
In the film, the figure of Hampton is trying to balance the introduced fbr-sheep to the "panthers" informant - Judas Bill, who in the title of the film, and in the general plot for some reason is in the first place, as if there is something interesting in the betrayal. The storyline associated with Bill, unfortunately, diverts attention from Hampton’s truly revolutionary approach to public activity and takes the viewer’s gaze to where there is nothing new compared to other films – all the same betrayal, meanness, systemic racism of the United States. As a result, the attempt to balance the bug with the panther does not so much blur the figure of Fred as gives him the features of an idealist with unattainable dreams, who will definitely get bogged down in this human swamp. Is there a film that distracts from real politics?