Seeing Black Panther in Bangkok

A vision of past and future.

Photo by Chris Hardy on Unsplash

I first saw the Marvel movie Black Panther in Bangkok. I went alone — a habit I’d picked up in Beijing — where, as a freelancer, going to the cinema on a weekday, when the theatre would be largely empty, save for a scattering of comrades, was a favoured indulgence. Sitting in the dark as the lights and shadows gathered ou…