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this is one of the most heartbreaking scenes in cinema to me it’s the moment oogway denies tai lung the dragon scroll it’s a moment i understand. because it’s 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. “of darkness.” 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 lung’s soul . he wasn’t wrong . but it was 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 of him to deny the scroll when oogway said no, and turned away, he cleaved reality, putting the barrier of “darkness in his heart” 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 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 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 “fundamentally like us” but made different choices? who are the “other kind of people”? https://t.co/jr04dMvHli