It's still one of the most negative depictions of the CIA I've seen in a big popcorn movie Ross himself may be more or less presented as a decent guy but he goes ahead and tells us Killmonger is also a CIA agent and everything he does in Wakanda is exactly what he's trained tohttps://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1302603237690945537 …
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There is no way to interpret Ross saying "That's what he was trained to do" as anything other than a very dark look at what "regime change" entails
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You mean like a CIA officer interferring in a country's electoral process to ensure a sympathetic leader stays in power? That kind of regime change?
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Historically, the CIA hasn't really needed any help looking bad.
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Or to establish that the CIA (which otherwise goes unopposed and uncriticised in the film) does this shit all the time, and the problem with Killmonger is that he's doing it for different reasons to the CIA.
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Okay, sure, if you're determined to take the movie in bad faith Coogler could have done the exact opposite if he wanted to make the CIA look good (have Ross go "This isn't what we were trained to do!"), he didn't
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