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this is one of the most heartbreaking scenes in cinema to me itās the moment oogway denies tai lung the dragon scroll itās a moment i understand. because itās a moment when the exceptional child realises he has darkness in his heart https://t.co/w9ZSEmmxKr https://t.co/MnSBxqx4jj


what does an exceptional child do? when he has been told he has a destiny https://t.co/AlHWTNhqHN


that moment of wrongness is everything. it is hell. it is exile to hell. it is separating the child from his only basis for existence https://t.co/OX26l5WOVg

to have a stain on you. āof darkness.ā with no tools to fix it if desperation breeds desperate choices, these children are the most desperate of all https://t.co/kM0CCAJUHF

oogway saw darkness in tai lungās soul . he wasnāt wrong . but it was šøš³š°šÆšØ of him to deny the scroll when oogway said no, and turned away, he cleaved reality, putting the barrier of ādarkness in his heartā between tai lung and the dragon scroll https://t.co/bcMz2KZd3N


to a normal child, this would have been sad, devastating even, but not existential. it might not impact that secure attachment to the world. but for tai lung, this was his attachment to the world this was his basis for existence. his being in the world https://t.co/OX26l5WOVg

it was šøš³š°šÆšØ of him to not offer kindness after that. forgive him, for he was not perfectly enlightened https://t.co/QpTWgGk1MH https://t.co/5fsYHGdpTg




> And Shifu had to destroy what he had created. > But how could he? shifu is literally humanised more than tai lung lol https://t.co/X8Mt5xfYGy


who are the people depicted āfundamentally like usā but made different choices? who are the āother kind of peopleā? https://t.co/jr04dMvHli

hereās the secret to when celebrities or other people tell you about an experience you cannot directly relate with: instead treating them as a fundamentally different kind of human being (āwoah, i could never imagine that!ā) https://t.co/25uDpEuqi6