The saddest line in the whole film (which also questions the film's entire premise) is when Killmonger talks about being a kid in Oakland believing in fairy tales. The entire (black) audience at that point becomes Killmonger.
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It is also perhaps the clearest example in a mainstream film of the moment in which the white audience is revealed as an interloper/overhearer.
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Obviously this moment is most explicitly dramatized in Niggas in Paris with the interlude from the white guys about how nobody know what it means (black people do) but it's provocative (to whites).
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Anyway, the movie's black audience continues to live in a world of subjugation and oppression while believing, if only for these two hours and change, in a fairy tale of blackness triumphant, victorious, unimpeded in its glory.
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Killmonger tells us how silly we all look. Of course, most beautiful things are all the more beautiful for how silly they are, up to and including the story of Jesus Christ.
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(Yes this is Romanticism, what of it?)
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I could probs write a chapter in my thesis on Black American Aesthetics centering on that line of Killmonger's.
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