Scared of Revolution

Name: Scared of Revolution
Genre: Documentary
Released: October 4, 2019
Duration: 72 min
Cast: Abiodun Oyewole, Baba Donn Babatunde, Bill Adler, Bill Laswell, Omar Ben Hassan

2019

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Film Movement | Release Date: October 4, 2019 | NR

Starring: Abiodun Oyewole, Baba Donn Babatunde, Bill Adler, Bill Laswell, Omar Ben Hassan

Summary: Umar Bin Hassan hasn’t even hit 70 yet, but he walks with difficulty and there’s sadness and fatigue in his eyes. As a member of The Last Poets, a group of performance poets who expressed the progressive spirit of the times starting in the late 1960s, he was a major influence on later hip-hop artists. In one of his best-known pieces,Umar Bin Hassan hasn’t even hit 70 yet, but he walks with difficulty and there’s sadness and fatigue in his eyes. As a member of The Last Poets, a group of performance poets who expressed the progressive spirit of the times starting in the late 1960s, he was a major influence on later hip-hop artists. In one of his best-known pieces, "Ni****s Are Scared of Revolution", he criticizes his black brothers’ destructive, macho behavior. Scared of Revolution concentrates on Hassan’s personal life, in which he still fights his demons. He grew up poor with a violent, unpredictable father, which in turn left him with an inferiority complex. In the course of his adult life, he has had a string of bad relationships and left children without a father figure. In his darkest hour, he also battled a crack addiction. “Deep inside, Umar was scared of the revolution himself,” says fellow member of The Last Poets Abiodun Oyewole. But Hassan takes control of his life again, breaks the destructive cycle and does his best to be the devoted father and grandfather that he was never fortunate enough to have. [Film Movement]… Expand

Director: Daniel Krikke

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: NR

Runtime: 72 min

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Movie Nation Roger Moore

Apr 30, 2020

It’s a warm portrait, warts and all, if not as critical and definitive as one might like. Read full review

Katie Walsh

Oct 3, 2019

While Scared of Revolution offers intimacy with Umar, it is otherwise unmoored from the important cultural history it could have been. Read full review

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