OMG! This is a movie that I thought I wouldn't be able to appreciate but I totally dig it, baby. Sometimes you have to appreciate things simply for what they are. Ron O'Neal as Priest is the black man's John Wayne. Yes, he's a hustler and a drug dealer, but in his world, that's what you have to do to survive. He's trying to do better though. One last big deal and he's out of the drug game. I mean, who can hate on a movie with lines like...
"You're going to give all of this up - 8 track stereo and a color TV in every room? That's the American dream, nigga!"
Stupendous! I get why this movie was a hit. This movie came out at the beginning of the '70s which was just as the Civil Rights Movement was winding down in America. Black people had gone through a lot and needed a movie where the man got what was coming to him. Priest's story is cathartic. And the soundtrack? Wow! Curtis Mayfield is amazing. His music tells a story all unto itself.
That last line of dialogue... "Can you dig it?" Yeah, man. I can dig it.
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