A NEW WORLD
A FEW WEEKS AFTER UK release in February 2018, there was an unseasonal March snowfall in London that left maybe three inches of snow on the ground. In at least one south-east London park, as this writer witnessed, kids hurled snowballs at each other, as is only right and proper. But that day they did something new. After each barrage, they crossed their arms across their chests and made fists, shouting, “Wakanda forever!” before pelting off in circles until the school-bell rang. It was a tiny moment, but it showed a shift in the zeitgeist, kids will grow up knowing that not all superheroes are white, aligning themselves with an imaginary country that’s free of the stain of colonialism or racism. They glimpsed a better world, and that’s because had already become something more than a movie. It was a moment of change.
