![]() ![]() Save its killer Curtis Mayfield soundtrack - for which the lethargic first half is oftentimes a mere delivery system - Super Fly staunchly refuses and rejects anything beyond large, weary truths about urban marginalization and desperation. In the following year, the iconic, incendiary blaxploitation classic Super Fly forced no such heroism or righteousness on its protagonist, cocaine dealer Youngblood Priest. John Shaft was an asshole to the only one presumably capable of understanding him (his womaaaan), but at least his job of private investigator held pretenses to a profession beyond pushing drugs.
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