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#literally what the fuck am i doing anymore why am i the caretaker im pissed bro
kustas · 2 years
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per yesterday's post ... one of the reasons the movie rushing the ending and changing the confrontation with weasel into a simpler "fall even more deep down in your bad coping mechanism fueled delusions and/or achieve greater powers vs remember your loved ones and miraculously snap out" pisses me off is it wipes the story of most of that as we don't get black's side of it all. in the manga you crucially learn in that scene that not only is he aware of how others react to him but it makes him feel self conscious and plain bad, that doesn't blame his own actions, he just knows everyone likes his brother better and feels jealous for it. maybe it's because he's a kid, or because he's never lived differently, or because he just doesn't have the self awareness but he isn't looking at his violence during that confrontation. no "people might not like me because I am dangerous to be around", but weasel's supernatural strength that makes him so fascinating to black and the other kids + their conversation about the benefits of being alone implies in my opinion he idolizes violence and sees it as a protection against the world. given no one fucks with him, makes sense. the moment he abandons his brother is the one where he also wasn't strong enough to prevent what happened - and when alone, he gets worst.
black is aware that people don't like him and just dismisses it as adults being annoying, but white also tells him he's a pain and at that moment he doesn't have anything to say and steers away from the topic. white knows his problems better than him even if he doesn't word it in a clear clinical way and is well placed to confront black about it (so is gramps btw, for the same reasons) because he knows black will not hurt him. he's the closest person he'll ever get who's uniquely great at holding him together because he knows what's wrong and that's why black completely falls apart when he ditches him - i do believe what he says to him about needing a stronger partner is a lie, because to gramps and to weasel he tells that it's just too hard to care for him anymore instead.
that's a very touchy subject and im glad it was brought up too. as much as other citizens also shoulder part of it black is white's main caretaker and he can't deal with it sometimes. it's brought up well because the writing never demeans white or puts the blame on him for his disability, and also shows that he is aware of it in a weirdly mature way. he does talk about himself a bit crudely but it's never with a mean intent and he doesn't blame himself either, he has a religious and very poetic explanation for why he was born like that that puts him as equal to black. as for his relationship with adults they're nice to him, i love that. they are way more critical of how he is, even gramps, compared to black who only sees problems in how it affects their relationship; adults bring up how he is vs the world.
given the story is about these two kids being extremely violently confronted by greater forces that won't accept their ways of life, it all fits very well. their solution to "society has no place for me" is to live above it (quite literally pictured sometimes as solitary rooftop avengers) and when confronted with that solution not being possible in the long run, pain ensues. the theme of the world vs your way of life echoes all around the plot and the story ends it with the more depressing conclusion of "the world won't bend for you". many people loved the city, it gets destroyed anyway. black says himself "it's progress, that happens all the time". but what makes it a bittersweet instead of a bad ending is that while in the end, the battle is lost; along the way the world wasn't so cruel. these kids are told society won't accept them and get violently kicked out, but their neighbors care for them and even in the "bad guys" some risk their life to defend their cause. you're told you need to change for the sake of society, a greater concept you don't like, but looking around you, all these folks live with you as you are and give you a hand when you need it
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sunshine-jack · 3 years
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