I actually think "what if Killmonger grew up in Wakanda" is the saddest and most beautiful question about the film, because what it actually means is: what if black kids grew up free?
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The way Killmonger becomes a stand-in for the hopes, fears, desires, aspirations, anger, righteousness, and pain of the black American audience is like... fucking phenomenal filmmaking slash art making in general.
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And like... the way black Americans can feel left behind and abandoned and orphaned by history? That's some "he who is willing to work creates his own father" type shit.
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The whole project of the reexamination of old narratives that started circa 2007 or so is "what if superheroes but real feelings" and BP is like the apotheosis of that project.
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