Black Panther has just opened . . . not even through the first weekend yet . . . and it's already earned $76 million, and it looks like it's going to make a whole lot more in the near future. And the (capacity) crowd that was there when I saw it was at least 50% black, and they seemed pretty pleased with it. So I guess it's just me.
But I did not like this movie.
For one thing because I didn't think it was a very good movie.
But for a bigger and better reason, too. I thought it was a racist movie. Get this: Wakanda is the most technologically advanced society on the planet . . . but it is still ruled by a king . . . and that king defends his right to rule his people by engaging in mortal combat. Does he do this in a high tech colosseum, at least? No. He does it in a river. While his people stand around in tribal costumes and grunt and shriek. Many of them display bodily mutilations of one type or another. The message seemed very clear to me: no matter how advanced their civilization might become, these Africans were still just tribal warriors at their core.
Not to mention that the soundtrack is just fucking ridiculous. Tribal drums and howling voices.
And that, my friends, is some racist bullshit.
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