supercanaries:cornbreadfishncollardgreens:xphilosoraptorx:To me, the biggest contrast here is T'chal
supercanaries:cornbreadfishncollardgreens:xphilosoraptorx:To me, the biggest contrast here is T'challa appears as a grown man in his vision, while Erik appears as a child. Both reflect their inner mind, their core emotional state.As a man, T'challa is emotionally honest about his grief and the fact that he’s not ready to let his dad go. Erik, on the other hand, says he’s accepted his father’s death, that “It’s just life around here”, but his appearance as a boy suggests that it’s a lie told from immaturity, one that comes from the belief that tears are a sign of weakness.Their reactions after waking up from thier visions further add to this. T'challa is smiling. He’s overjoyed to have seen his father. While he still misses T'chaka, he’s truly at peace with his father’s passing. Erik is in distress when he wakes up, confused, and maybe a bit disoriented. The absence of his father was a huge blow to him, and the flood of memories that the vision brought back were too much for him. They left him emotionally wrecked.Keen analysisThis is the exact reason I made this gifset. I was rewatching the movie with my boyfriend last night, and I was talking to him about this, and I realized even though I had loved this parallel, I had never giffed it. I’m going to add a few more notes to what said above:Confirmation of Erik’s lack of honesty about how he truly feels about the loss of his father can be found in the fact that once the movie shifts from child Erik to adult Erik again, he’s shown with a tear running through his face. Because the childish mask of denial is off. Erik being tied to the past in constrast with T’Challa, I believe you can also see this with the setting. T’Challa immediately steps into the field of the ancestral plane, free of his past even if not indifferent to the pain. Erik is stuck in the apartment in California. He cannot get into the plane, because he is trapped inside the past, his anger feeds on his personal pain more than his ideals.The movie raises the question of what a good father does. At first you’re left to wonder “is it true what T’Chaka says? That a father who hasn’t prepared his son to be without him has failed as a father?”. You’re only getting an answer an hour later or so. Erik’s father in tears says “Well, look at what I have done”. -- source link
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