black panther

06 Mar 2018

this post is just space to collect thoughts and think pieces i read or see or hear from other people

me

• loved shuri. young black woman leading tech? yas.
• love how present romance and love was without being central or driving action.
• hated that shuri appeared to be a solo technologist every time we see her (except the first time we see her in her lab).
• hated how t’challa, an outsider, decided what oakland needed at the end of the movie. still operating under a settler colonial logic.

thoughts from other people

naomi

• the ending was trash. the UN?! really?!?! that’s one of the ways they chose to intervene?

vamboi

• loved the surfacing of the reality of the complexity between ab and nab.

spewil

• i like that wakandans chose to reject killmonger’s violence, though they agreed that they should be helping the world

jsk

• overly simplified perfect resource. they don’t at all address the issues of extraction nor of the processes it takes to turn a resource into useful material. they do talk about miners (one of the tribes is a miner tribe), but they don’t at all address how that tribe relates to the rest of the tribes. are we to assume that they’re just fine being miners?

sotom

• an advanced country like wakanda had both marketplace and underground city environments. both/and, not either/or.

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