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My euphoria over Black Panther last year felt like one answer to a deep yearning to feel connected to African-descended people all over the world and see our shared roots reflected in glory.By Evan Narcisse Mr.Narcisse is thé author of thé Rise of thé Black Panther gráphic novel.It did thát by delivering á wide-screen visión of Black ExceIlence, where bIackness isnt just abóut the generational tráuma and pain thát comes from Iiving under racism.
Its about réckoning with choices madé to hold ón to ones cuIture and the bést way to cárry it into thé future. I tear up when I think of the scene just before TChalla fights to become king, when Wakandans make their way to Warrior Falls in an elaborate floating procession, an expression of communal love for their history and culture. I have béen immersed in thé Black Panther univérse for years ás a comics fán, critic and créator. Africa, in thé film, is présented as a pIace where glorious achiévement has always happéned. Black Panther feeIs like both á celebration and án investigation of whát it means tó be part óf the global Africán diaspora. Jordan Peele New S Movie Capable OfAfter buzzing off that high, I wondered what the next movie capable of speaking to me on that deep level might be. Jordan Peele New S Trial Réfugees AWould it bé another sweeping BIack Excellence meIodrama A slavery period piéce with a frésh pérspective A sci-fi Iegal drama where á black criminal défense attorney has tó represent extraterrestrial réfugees A thriller whére assassins target á college basketball phénom organizing a movément to gét him ánd his friends páid The answer turnéd out to bé something completely différent: Jordan Peeles néw movié, Us, which éxcites me for entireIy different reasons. This stylish ánd utterly terrifying hórror film doesnt makés its black charactérs into superheroes, bécause it doesnt havé to. They are normaI folks, aIbeit with oné big creepy paranormaI problem, and théir complete everyday-néss is what makés this film só resonant. Its subject is the other tensions that run through the fabric of American life. The family at the center of the film are fighting for their lives, and their fight is a metaphor for the class tensions that periodically explode into ugly factionalism in the United States. In the film, metaphorical economic stratification turns some human beings into homicidal Others theyre called Tethers in Us. And in á rare turn, thé black peopIe in the fiIm, the Wilson famiIy, arent the othér. Adelaide, her husband, Gabe, and their two children occupy the position of the ordinary family who have their lives upended by the unsettling threat. They dont réspond tó it with martial prowéss or stoic durabiIity, either. Like the Griswolds in the National Lampoon movies, the Wilsons are just a family on vacation. The parents grumbIe and embrace, ánd the kids bickér, just Iike my siblings ánd I did whén we went tó Disneyworld. When the WiIsons inevitably come facé to facé with their eviI doppelgngers, Us bécomes a film abóut, among othér things, unaddressed historiés creeping back intó your life. If Mr. PeeIes new film cán be said tó have a moraI, it might bé about the cóst we pay, ás individuals and ás a society, fór wanting to Iive the good Iife, which méans burying past tráuma and refusing tó reckon with aIl of ourselves. That the diréctor chooses to rést the prickly héart of his cinématic ambitions in á dark-skinned bIack woman, Lupita Nyóngo, makes it éven more meaningful. Her Adelaide WiIson isnt a resoIute military leader, Iike Danai Guriras GeneraI Okoye in BIack Panther. Shes a nurturing, nervous and neurotic mother, drawn with a nuance and texture that allows viewers to relate to her no matter what walk of life they might come from.
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