The moment when Shuri casually called the token white man a colonizer, I was like
Shuri is my hero
I kinda can’t believe Marvel let this film get made. It allows a subjugated group to express their seditious feeling which undercuts Hollywood’s status quo. I loved that it straight up presented a future without colonialism but its also heartbreaking because then you remember this a film and thats not the world we live in.
The world building in this was so cool and so well rounded, like Wakanda has its own culture and it felt so real. I love it.
I agree with a little bit of what everyone said about this movie in that there were some moments that could have been better but overall I loved this movie. I can't say yet if this is the best MCU movie but it is up there with Iron-Man, Winter Soldier, Civil War, and Guardians Of The Galaxy. I probably need to let it sink in for a while before I go off and say it's better than all of those. That's not quite fair to do that yet.
My main complaints
Some of the scenes at night were hard to follow and I saw it in 3D so that may have had something to do with it.
Also I would have liked to see a little more build up from the time Killmonger beats T'Chalia to when T'Chalia comes back. I felt like that was a little too quick for him to come back.
A very good movie that is near or at the top of the MCU movies. This was just a different experience than just a Marvel movie for me. I love the costumes and the colors and all of the actors were very good especially Letitia Wright as Shuri. I think I might be in love with her.
Its interesting that the word colonizer is seen as racist but what I’m familiar with is Hollywood’s white saviour narrative. They are the ones to bring knowledge, technology and values to other inferior races of colour into the modern age. As an Arab, who has seen nothing but negative characterization of people that look like me in films, it is exhilarating for once to see in a blockbuster that people of colour can excel more than colonizer have done. That word is acknowledging a history of violence that unearned him inheritances and assumed privileges.
Its interesting that the word colonizer is seen as racist but what I’m familiar with is Hollywood’s white saviour narrative. They are the ones to bring knowledge, technology and values to other inferior races of colour into the modern age. As an Arab, who has seen nothing but negative characterization of people that look like me in films, it is exhilarating for once to see in a blockbuster that people of colour can excel more than colonizer have done. That word is acknowledging a history of violence that unearned him inheritances and assumed privileges.
The moment when Shuri casually called the token white man a colonizer, I was like
Shuri is my hero
I kinda can’t believe Marvel let this film get made. It allows a subjugated group to express their seditious feeling which undercuts Hollywood’s status quo. I loved that it straight up presented a future without colonialism but its also heartbreaking because then you remember this a film and thats not the world we live in.
The world building in this was so cool and so well rounded, like Wakanda has its own culture and it felt so real. I love it.
9/10
Audiences in both showings I attended clapped when she said that. It was an awesome line. And I agree with everything in your review.
By the way, I don't know if this has been discussed already, but considering how each Marvel film seems to try and embody some genre or sub-genre, it felt like this took a lot from Bond.
That Skyfall-eque casino scene in South Korea, the early action set pieces and car chase (at least conceptually), Shuri as Q and all the gadgets, Klaue and Killmonger's introduction looks like something out of a Bond film.
I dunno, it's something I've been chewing on a bit.
