The melodrama is not the point. This is Black Panther on so many levels. How there's an unbelievably rich exotic world out there, unknown to us. How there's xenophobia against those who immigrated from that world to America. How an entirely minority-based cast with a story set in a foreign land conquered the US box office on its opening weekend. And in the meantime, upping the ante on Black Panther ... how behind all the lovey dovey stuff, there’s a real struggle fought by real people, stuck between tradition and modernism. America, I introduce to you Wakanda 2.0.
PS: Funny that yesterday I wrote how boring Awkwafina was in Ocean's Eight. Here, she totally shines. The definition of miscast versus well-cast.
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