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Analysis Of Sweet Sweetback's Badasssss Song
The film clip from Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song is being seen through the eyes of the police. This clip is asking the audience to identify with the police by showing their sense of urgency towards finding Sweetback. Many things are said through dialogue. Consequently, this clip is organized to show deeper meaning through editing and cinematography. The clip from Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song shows the paranoid hectic lifestyle Sweetback is forced to live from the police point of view while using montages of unstable jump cuts and cutting on action.

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