Black Panther is such an essential film for not only our current society, but to live on as a historic piece of artwork through the years. As well as this, the film serves as huge milestone for black America. To many, the film may just appear as another superhero film, long awaited by fanatics of the comic books. However, the movie stands for so much more as it displays long overdue representation to the black community on the big screen.
In the reading, Wakanda, Forever, it is noted that the film provides an appeal of a fictitious version of what society has failed to ensue, "-a place where race is not an issue and [our] blackness is taken for granted" (Dyson, 270). The author explains how Wakanda gives purpose, it accepts all in their prosperity and allows black folk to live their every day lives, a privilege whites often have trouble owning up to.
It's films like these that are able to so easily spark a conversation, open up new possibilities that you'd generally not expect to come to light. This film in particular is an incredible segue to large scale equality movements, and the normalization of not only African Americans but all POC with mass media representation.
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