As if
it’s not enough that this film actually suggests that shrinking in
size and keeping your density is a super-power, it actually suggests
it’s great and great enough to super deal in super problems like
Nuclear power.
I
guess. But that’s not all. Oh no. The word martyr is actually used
and underscores the entire lengthy 40 minute first act as a sort-of
positive and the reason why a shlub may become a super hero.
Within
the overall context, sure.
But
within this blog’s sober lens, it pains me to say that Marvel had
the audacity to make its best picture to date. It’s a great A-:
like a 94 or something. Worrying.
Democracy
is well represented as, first, fist-fighting between elites and then
pantomimed violence between the imprisoned. This is life. And shows
how firing happens.
Ugh,
right?
Ugh.
All the glitzy stuff is couched in said Democracy and the lying and
plutocracy of the day-to-day robber-baron tech. world that we are in
are well delivered without exaggeration.
Double
ugh.
And
what’s more, there’s a newspaper and said martyr is found because
of landing therein.
Potentially
triple ugh.
This
film is dangerous. Montage is used repeatedly very, very well. For
these messages? TRIPLE-UGHAGE ENGAGED!
Loyalty
is underlined and in the pint-sized, but all the forbidden fruit
everywhere doesn’t necessarily preclude the message of childhood
loyalty from withering with repeated watchings.
It’s
a step-parent world. (And a cop) {Saving grace.} [But see the
problem?
Fourth
ugh!
The
short second act leads us to question why the female love-interest
isn’t the super-hero. Perhaps she’s not a dodgy martyr that’ll
ruin Nuclear diplomacy for fear that the science is too potentially
harmful to the planet. Still. In a step-partent world, fifth ugh!
The
unshaven super-hero is born, and though this is reality and cool to
see in an Axel-F superhero movie with cool friends who risk
everything for a score slash mission, it is worth repeating that this
movie is dangerous.
The
overall structure of long, montage-riddled, first act, short second
act with superior helper friend, to 3rd act of the mission calling to
4th act of the mission to 5th act of the one-to-one fight with the
baddie who has a voice to rival the evil of Ultron: the overall
structure which ends in the power of Zen or Nihilism is so strong as
to make this movie really, really dangerous.
The
Zen-ending is not trivialized and underscores the power of private
ownership. Both its saving grace and another ugh as the orphan in
question will, never, ever truly get the plot to life. But, the
zen-hero has a Master’s in Electrical Engineering and can do things
like beat security at really, really impressive… Shell companies.
So good
luck. We loved it.