Here are three reasons why you should run not walk to go see the Black Panther movie. Let your mind be at ease and let go of all your worries because Wakanda awaits.
The Storyline
it’s a beautiful story about a person finding faith in himself to lead a nation. The story shows African people as complex human beings. Africa has been portrayed many times in film before but no films have portrayed Africa like Black Panther has. Ryan coogler, all of the actors, the set designers, the costume designer, the cinematographer, the director of photography and the makeup artists did a phenomenal job on representing African people’s humanity. The storyline is insightful, heartbreaking and powerful. Go see this movie if want to see Wakanda in all of it glory.
Next, the cinematography
Wakanda is beautiful, the people, the language and the landscape. Seeing people living in lush green landscapes to in mountains covered in snow shows the diverse landscapes of Africa. Often in film Africa is portrayed as a desert with no resources so to see Africa as a lush place filled with valuable resources is refreshing.
The last reason is to see beautiful African people.
This is not to sound shallow but African people are beautiful and to have a movie that shows them as such is rare and yet should be common. This movie displays African people with different hair textures, lengths and colors, the customer designer dressed all the characters in ways that exquisitely shows their humanity and beauty and lastly the African language spoken, isiXhosa, is so well placed throughout the movie that it makes my heart smile. This movie captures the joy, pain and strength of African people. Wakanda Forever ?
(all images via giphy) (image in thumbnail via wired.com)