Summary of the Film “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” Essay Example

out of the car to beat. Sweetback uses the situation to jump out of the car, beat the officers themselves and escape.

Upon escape he decides to fly to Mexico. On his way he is once more arrested and manages to escape during a riot. Then he discovers his story to a white man who becomes sympathetic with Sweetback and gives him new clothes. While Sweetback does that the police investigators finds an old, illiterate and blind man- Sweetback’s father, who discovers the real name of Sweetback – Leroy.

Meanwhile Sweetback skillfully uses his main talent - a talent for sex. He visits a woman who can take the handcuffs off for sex, and becomes free from a disclosing sign of a former prisoner. On his way further towards the frontier Sweetback is captured by a group of Hells Angels, being all whites. But the women of the group are so impressed with Sweetback’s penis, that they agree to help him with escape, once again for sex.Already near the border the police lays dogs on him, but he happily reaches Mexico, having murdered a sniffer dog.

Already on the other shore of Rio Grande Sweetback sends a message to the white viewers via screen: "Watch out - a baad assss nigger is coming to collect some dues." The ending is in a way unexpected, because in most of dramatic escape movies the characters die at the end. However, perhaps it is not yet the end, and Sweetback will really return to pay for his troubles.