I saw the movie a while ago so don’t remember it that well but do remember the line. And the critique is mostly taking issue with how Africa is portrayed in the movie
Okay but I think critiques about it have issue with how this is framed in the movie. The framing builds off of stereotypical views of Africa already. I dunno I could be wrong and don’t really care too much to go back and read too many articles about it.
Again I think the movie has had a huge impact, I’ve paid for like 20 kids to go see the movie so it’s importance wasn’t lost on me lol
I haven’t watched many superhero movies which it why it was so hilarious when I went and watched Avengers: Endgame in the theaters. I wish you could all experience being confused by a celebrity cameo every 5 minutes that takes you completely out of every scene because you’re can’t stop wondering what Angela Bassett, Michael Douglas or Tilda Swinton is doing in this movie.
I don’t know what the perfect depiction would be (and I’m not sure that there is a “perfect” one), but it doesn’t seem unreasonable to say that maybe a society that has developed the best medicine on the planet, the most advanced weapons, the ability to cloak an entire country in a stealth bubble and is progressive enough to have female warriors, spies, and scientists might also figure out a better chain of succession than, “we all gather by this waterfall while carrying spears, wearing our ritual garb and chanting ancient chants while two dudes fight to the death to see who leads us.”
Overall I think the movie is good, and, like others have said, it’s not as if the film doesn’t address some of these critiques within the story itself. That being said, I can understand how some people (particularly in Africa), might object to some of the parts of Wakanda that rely on stereotypes about African spiritualism.
I can hardly wait to see Africans with futuristic technology unable to advance beyond spears and voodoo. Great stuff.
The more interesting thing for me has been learning how the “left” itt are quite happy to throw Africa under the bus if it means giving their own disadvantaged people a message of hope, which is a sort of imperialism as I said before.
It’s not as if any of this is new to the continent of course, ever since the first Europeans landed there, but it’s a pretty sad reflection on a progressive forum that this debate has had to go on for so many posts until someone who has seen the film has made this point.
When I was 10, I was doing double dutch at girl scout camp and tripped and fell face forward, hit my teeth, broke the front two basically in half, and bit through my lower lip. Had to rush home and call our dentist at like 9 pm on a Sunday to fix them with this newfangled stuff called composite bonding.
Thus began my terrible hatred of all things dental-related, especially concerning my front teeth. Spending 4 hours in an Air Force dentist’s chair to get that bonding replaced with porcelain caps just cemented my phobia. I now need sedation for even the most basic cleaning.
Double Dutch is cool, but man, it brings up trauma for me
