Anon watches Black Panther
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What I can't understand is how the moral of Black Panther got so horribly misinterpreted. The whole point of the movie was how past injustices create present violence, and the dangers of succumbing hatred. The villian is a literal standin for BLM for crying out loud! While the protagonist learns to combat systemic injustice by lifting his "brothers" up, not tearing his "enemies" down.
Yet the take away seems to have been "We Wuz Kangs!"
Because that's how the ad companies hyped it. It's absolutely hyped as racialist propaganda, and to an extent, it's setting is.
At the critical release, there was some Afro-Centrist lunatic on the Red Carpet hyping this up as a racial masterpiece. BLM was basically using Black Panther as the KKK used "Birth Of A Nation".
Why doesn't the movie defeat their own rhetoric? Have you ever known a leftist to care about the truth? The same thing happened with Captain Marvel. The critics were literally just enjoying a dopamine rush of them pretending they were Captain Marvel without taking two seconds to think about the story. The racialists were basically saying: you was kangs, now you can be kangs! Nobody who advocated for it, watched it.
The movie, generally, was fine.
Kind of like how people see the film "Get Out". So many people say how it apparently tackles the modern issues of racism in "Trump's America". Yet funny enough, that wasn't even the goal that Peele was going for. According to his own words, it was supposed to be about the "racism" from elite white liberals. The type about them holding up blacks on some type of pedestal.
Which makes sense considering the film is about a family wanting to steal and live in (Not sure how else to describe it) black bodies because that's they consider to be superior. Though I don't think he did much of a good job portraying that apparent message. The obvious reference to slave auctions scene being the biggest example.
Right, the issue of "negrophillia". I think Peele has tried to ret-con his own movie with some of his current ideological activism. There's a weird moment early in the film where the protagonist's girlfriend interjects herself into a traffic stop and accuses the cop of being racist for stopping her boyfriend, even though the cop didn't show any signs of being racist. He's said in later interviews that the "originally" planned to end the movie with the regular police showing up instead of the security guard friend, and in that ending, the protagonist would end up in prison for the rest of his life. He said he didn't do it because it would be 'too depressing'.
Peele's comedic history hasn't shown him to be an avid racialist as far as I've seen, but he seems to have started going down that path ever since the Get Out was well recieved.