通常，电影的明星会成为评论的标题，但黑豹：永远的Wakanda, grief IS the lead character. Dealt the incredible loss of his friend and collaborator Chadwick Boseman, director Ryan Coogler finds a way to marshal on in the world of Wakanda, though the film is haunted by the absence of Boseman, and not just as a story point. Coogler, who co-writes the script with Joe Robert Cole, shifts the focus from Boseman’s King T’Challa to the women of Wakanda, the family and friends left to pick up the pieces after the death of T’Challa (and Boseman in real life). Grief weighs heavily on the film, and in some moments, it does not feel like anyone is acting but that their raw, real grief is being recorded for posterity’s sake. At times,永远的瓦卡达侵入性和像是所有这些人be left alone to grieve in private.

Which makes turning the focus to Wakanda’s problems on the world stage a particularly smart decision from Coogler and Cole. T’Challa is gone, but Wakanda can’t just withdraw into the shadows. They’re known now, and life goes on even as Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett) and Princess Shuri (Letitia Wright) are still reeling from their loss. Ramonda, the queen regnant now, must deal with global threats to Wakanda’s independence and the increasingly isolated and uncomfortable spot they occupy on the world stage. Richard Schiff shows up as an unnamed U.S. Secretary of State sweatily zealous about “destabilizing” Wakanda to get at their precious vibranium. Coogler addresses the inevitable fallout of Wakanda upsetting the world order and knocking America from the top of the world power heap by flat-out stating what America does to countries that have resources it wants.

但是，对于Wakanda来说，至少不是美国的问题。更直接的问题是从海上升起的未知威胁。因此，虽然悲伤就像地幔一样永远的瓦卡达, there is no time for these characters to slow down and sit with it. They must deal with what comes to them, which both feels like an apt metaphor for carrying on in the face of immeasurable loss, and a little bit like a narrative mistake. The emotional resonance of永远的瓦卡达不能被否认，作为悲伤的肖像 - 可rible，how叫，无尽的悲伤 - 它正在深深地移动。但是作为一个故事？它不会像Black Panther。发生了太多事情，这部电影肯定太长了。永远的瓦卡达, besides being a vehicle for the friends and co-workers of Chadwick Boseman to process their loss, is also saddled with doing some heavy lifting for future MCU projects. It’s got an unfortunate case ofIron Man 2syndrome.

埃弗里特·罗斯（Everett Ross）（马丁·弗里曼（Martin Freeman））和他在中央情报局（Valentina de Fontaine）（朱莉娅·路易斯·德雷福斯（Julia Louis-Dreyfus））的新老板埃弗里特·罗斯（Everett Ross）和他的新老板谈论如何处理瓦卡达（Wakanda）。他们并不是说Freeman和Louis-Dreyfus并不愉快。扩大罗斯在他的国家和他对Shuri和Wakanda的生命债务之间的忠诚是有趣的，但这并不是真正的地方。在即将举行的Wakanda-stet Disney+ Show中的某个地方塞住该子图，不要做永远的瓦卡达worry about Everett Ross. This movie has enough to carry without him. And, unfortunately, the same goes for Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne), making her MCU debut as Ironheart.

索恩（ThorneCaptain America: Civil War, being the Macguffin everyone is chasing. But Bucky worked in that context because he had a personal connection to both protagonists, which deepened the emotional impact of the third act. But Riri has no personal connections to anyone in this film, she could be a glowing box of secrety secrets and nothing about the movie changes.永远的瓦卡达is too long and overstuffed and simply removing Riri and the CIA subplots would go a long way to fixing both those problems. It’s enough this film has to bear the burden of Boseman’s loss, don’t make it set up four future MCU thingamajigs, too.

纳莫尔（Tenoch HuertaMejía）和他的人民，居住的塔洛克尼亚人。像Wakandans一样，Talokanians从欧洲帝国主义者那里撤退并躲藏起来，在海中避难并适应水下生活。纳莫尔（Namor）是漫画中的反英雄，很少将自己的目标与地面世界保持一致，在这里他是舒里（Shuri）和瓦坎丹人（Wakandans）的坦率对手。不过，库格勒和韦尔塔的表现非常出色，这是纳莫尔在完全可以理解的，甚至是同情的推理方面的不满。他与Shuri和Ramonda有更多的共同点，Wakanda和Talokan应该结成自然盟友。他们受到打击的感觉就像是一场真正的悲剧，不仅是领导层，而且也是同理心的合法失败。

And Huerta is brilliant as Namor, shifting easily from enticing, even borderline flirty appeal, to a menace that is no less palpable for his subtlety (although Namor is also good at issuing open threats and backing them up in spectacular fashion). But even though Huerta and Bassett and Wright, and the rest of the ensemble, are all very good, no one can fill the void left by Boseman. Turning永远的瓦卡达into a meditation on mourning works, more from an emotional standpoint than a story one, but it really drives home how big Boseman’s presence is in the first film, and how no one, not even a collection of actors this good, can replicate the power of his charisma on screen.

没有人也能够复制他作为主角的角色，因为电影快速制作了Shuri的角色发展，将她推向了她的第三幕行动可信的地方。它只是有效的。赖特（Wright）被当作喜剧演员福利（Boseman）作为T'Challa的庄严存在，而Shuri直到现在一直为她的兄弟，一个完美的直男人而言，主要是漫画的浮雕。赖特（Wright）表现出色，但Shuri的发展感到匆忙和削弱了角色在有机之前做出某些决定的叙事必要性。感觉就像两部发展的电影挤在电影中大约一个小时的以舒里为中心的故事。

永远的瓦卡达is unfairly burdened. The loss of Chadwick Boseman obviously unmoored his friends and collaborators, and as a paean to Boseman, and T’Challa,永远的瓦卡达工作精美。但是这部电影也被卡住了一些叙事扩展，这本来可以最好留给其他作品。永远的瓦卡达is best as a love letter to a fallen friend, and as a kind of conduit for public grief. All of its weak points come from serving the larger franchise’s ongoing story. Like Wakanda itself,黑豹：永远的Wakanda最好是自己的术语，在自己的空间中存在，而不必担心局外人。要记住，哀悼，庆祝查德威克·鲍斯曼（Chadwick Boseman）和t’challa的生活和遗产。下周，当更多的人看电影时，我们将永远在Wakanda上进行更多讨论。

黑豹：永远的Wakanda从2022年11月11日起，仅在剧院中。

附件：瑞安·库格勒（Ryan Coogler），莱蒂蒂亚·赖特（Letitia Wright）和Lupita Nyong'o宣传黑豹：2022年11月9日在墨西哥Naucalpan的Wakanda永远。