And it was F~~~ING S~~~.
So the all the usual was there, 120lb black women kicking the ass of 200lb+ specifically white men (because black henchmen don’t exist, apparently), black people being just oh so superior to the evil neanderthal “colonists”, so much more wise, understanding, etc. Ok, fine, let’s just say for a second this is plausible. It is a fantasy land after all.
But there were several HUGE things that just straight up ruined the movie. I’ll list them in order of importance (as I remember them).
1. First thing- the obvious politicization of the whole movie. Now, of course, what did I expect- especially in this day and age. However I was surprised that the whole movie was just RIFE with it.
The main example I want to draw from is the main bad guy (who is technically T’challas older cousin, I believe, therefore having a right to the throne of Wakanda). Now, he has the stance that “black people have been oppressed for long enough, with the advanced tech we have here at Wakanda, we will liberate ALL BLACK PEOPLE from dee evil white man!”
Not only is the typical trope of blaming anyone with a light skin tone for the actions of those committed HUNDREDS of years ago, the main bad guy claims to be a history buff, however yet again, somehow skips the f~~~ over the fact that without Africans catching, enslaving, and selling OTHER Africans (which they still do to this day, f~~~ 300 years ago), the slave trade wouldn’t have been nearly as successful as it was, hell it might have fallen flat on it’s face.
Now later in the movie, he reasons to T’challa (the main hero) that since all people came from Africa, all people are his to rule.
If that is the case, that blows a huge hole in the main bad guys motivation. If that is true, then that means everybody is an “african”. There is no US vs THEM anymore. So why then are you mad at one particular skin colored “african” for the actions of “africans” that happened 300 years ago. Why are you dividing your own people this way then?
A smaller subpoint is that unless he knows the exact spot where the first man was created, he needs to shut the hell up, because what if somebody else is the president, ruler, king, whatever, of that spot? Then that means that THEY are the true kings of mankind, by his own logic.
2. Usually the bad guy and good guy in a movie are polar opposites, however, Tchalla isn’t. He also has the stance that the white man is the scum of the earth, however, he is the more “compassionate and wise” character- “We need to be betah den dee white man, we cannot act dee same as they”, yet again skipping over the fact that in reality, black people are the cause of 95% of their own problems. The only difference between him and the bad guy is that while the bad guy wants to initiate a proverbial “eye for an eye”, he just wants to live in peace, and move forward helping his fellow man. Some people would say that IS the opposite of the bad guys stance, but they make very sure to show you that Tchalla believes the white man is the main trouble, but they give him a moral high ground, since he is the “better man”, he “forgives” them and moves on.
So basically, they set it up so that it seems like the bad guy wants to “right a wrong” (I.E. he has been wronged in the first place, and therefore he is rightly justified in wanting justice), but Tchalla just wants to “forgive and forget” (meaning, yes, we have been wronged, but we need to be the better men, showing them compassion that they do not deserve).
So there really is no difference in between them, only utter and blatant leftist virtue signaling.
A smaller odd thing I noticed is that outside of the main bad guy, there isn’t any interaction with corrupt or evil black guys, or any of them, really- and even the main bad guy is presented like he has a point, whereas the white characters have the whole spectrum.
3. And the last point, which has been seen many times before, it’s the extreme focus on not only killing white men, but making sure to do it in the most painful way possible, I.E. attacking the genitals. Multiple times in the movie, the strong black woman kills the evil white man by shoving a spearhead (their main weapon) right into their b~~~~. Nope, not surprising, because hitting men in the b~~~~ is a common source of comedic and/or symbolic actions coming out of hollywood, it’s just that in the rare event you do see a man kill a woman in a movie, never would it be by shoving a sword up her c~~~. The thought wouldn’t even be ALLOWED.
Now I could go on and on and on (like the fact that there is no way a guy who has hundreds of confirmed kills and has been part of the highest special ops teams would think that just throwing Tchalla off a waterfall would for sure kill him without a doubt), but I don’t have the willpower for that.
Overall, a very mediocre movie, and factoring everything I just said, the movie is actually just a very racist piece of s~~~, with lazy, pandering story-writing.
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ResidentEvil7 1 year, 11 months ago.
