Monday, March 12, 2018

Black Panther

The movie begins in a apartment where two black men stock taking their guns. One turns out to be the brother of the King and the other is also from the country Wakanda. They identity themselves by glow in the dark barcodes on their lower lips. Brother hears someone coming and they keep their stash. Turns out one of those hot chicks (army of the King Wakanda) is the King himself in disguise. They confront the brother who now realises his fellow mate is also from Wakanda and had informed about him stealing vibranium. Brother wants to get back at companion but was stopped cold by the King. The King killed his brother and left his nephew behind who became Killmonger. 

The son of the King, T'challa, return to get the throne. They remove his ex-lover, Nakia, from an undercover assignment so she can attend the coronation with his mom and super smart sis. At the coronation, the leader of the Jabari tribe, Okoye, that is not united as Wakanda, challenge him to fight. They lost and T'challa showed him mercy by not killing that leader.

Klaw and his accomplice, Erik, want to steal the Wakanda artefact from UK Museum. Okoye, T'challa and his lover, Nakia, go to stop the sale between Klaw and Everett K Ross. They didn't pursue Klaw and brought Ross back to Wakanda so that Shuri, T'challa sister can heal him with that Vibranium technology.

Killmonger challenges T'challa to combat and T'challa lost. Killmonger flings him to his death. Killmonger ingests the heart-shaped herb and gets superhuman powers. He orders the rest to be destroyed but not before Nakia takes one.

Mother, sister, gf and Ross flee to Jabari tribe and they find T'challa there saved by them as gratitude for not killing their leader. T'challa eats the last herb and fights killmonger. He dies and doesn't want to be healed so that he remains free. 

T'challa sets up an outreach Centre run by Shuri and gf in memory of his uncle. He appeared in the UN to show Wakanda's true nature to the world and helped heal Bucky.


The Florida Project

Documents the life of this single teenage mom, Halley, and six-eight year old daughter, Moonee, who lives at The Magic Castle, this motel at the outskirts of Florida's Disneyland. They hang out with Halley's friend, Ashley, from downstairs unit 232 while they live at 323. Ashley works as a waitress in presumably Disneyland, where Halley, Moonee and Ashley's son, Scott, gets lunch from leftovers. That is until Ashley found out his son Scott started a fire in this suite of garishly painted houses. No longer friends and without the source of food, Halley steals Disneyland bands and resells them at a quarter of the price. 100 bucks each instead of 425 bucks. Halley buys cheap perfumes wholesale from stereotypical Chinese stall, and peddles them to rich customers living in Disneyland. With this she manages to scrap by and pay weekly rent. And soliciting while her daughter baths in the toilet. 

The manager of the motel, Bobby, is stem on the exterior but so compassionate E.g. by offering to pay the difference in rent for Halley when they move to the next door motel. 

Halley is unable to provide emotional stability for her child and dirties the motel lobby, sticks pad on doors I.e. throwing tantrums. Smokes pot or weed. 

At the same time they have real good fun as mother and Child. They celebrate Moonee's friend's birthday, Jancey, with cake, candle and a fireworks display from the outside of Disneyland. 

They play in the rain. 

Moonee and Jancey have the sweetest childhood together. They explore terrains to observe cows, pretend play at abandoned houses, beg money for ice-cream, shout obscenities at strangers and spit at Jancey's grandmother's car which is how they first met. 

Moonee is street smart E.g. carrying luggages for tips.

Their journeys are interspersed with beautiful billboards and billboards of "pregnant"? Which hints at the teenage pregnancies outside this idyllic fantasy. Like Moonee and Jancey whose parents are teens. Isn't it better they chose to keep their children?

When Halley beat up Ashley, social security is summoned and they threaten to take Moonee away. Moonee panics and finds Jancey and they flee into their Utopia, Disneyland.