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Captain Marvel Is Full Of Feminism But It's Still Watchable

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Shirley Santillan
Captain Marvel Is Full Of Feminism But It's Still Watchable

Few weeks before Captain Marvel's premiere a lot of news headlines politicized the newest Marvel movie. Dozens of videos against Brie Larson's feminist activism appeared online and the actress used almost all of her promotional interviews to talk about gender equality and the importance of her movie in this aspect.

I refused to watch the videos and read the articles before I've watched Captain Marvel. Since when it's a crime to impatiently await a movie because it's a part of a great series, and not because you're right wing troll or left wing activist?

Captain Marvel have a lot of elements of a good superhero movie - plot twists, good directing, great cast and well played supporting roles.

But the film needs cornerstone - this is a superhero film with extremely antipathic character in its center. And the reason is Carol Danvers' misunderstood demonstrative toxic feminism.

She is almighty, sinless, unnecessarily idealized from the very first moment we get to watch her. As the events unfold and we watch Captain Marvel online free just to see different scenes from her past and follow her adventure in the present and big part of the plot revolves around heroines' attempts to return her memories.

Ultimately this turns out pointless because Vers acts in the same way before and after she found out who she really is. She simply doesn't change. We see how she was singing and training when she was young but in a separate scenes.

The only thing that unites them is male oppressor. It doesn't matter if it's Carol's father who yelled at her, co-worker or her alien mentor played by Jude Law how is trying to teach her to not rely on her superpowers, Danvers always tries to refute the man in her life.

And he does it again and again without heroism, difficulty or drama. In the movie's culmination she destroys solitary and seamlessly half space fleet. Her character lacks charisma. Brie Larson is a good actress and the fact she won Oscar two years ago is a proof about this.

But it's obvious she haven't mastered the art of being movie star, to be sympathetic to viewers, to smile more like Tom Cruise in Top Gun. Larson's Carol Danvers is always angry, convinced in her straightness, she is always ready to fight with the people around her and to deliver justice with fists. She is naive, arrogant and absolutely antipathic. The only thing that makes her ordinary person is the fact she have Afro-American best friend - ridiculous, offensive cliche from the 80's.

There are more interesting characters around her played by better actors. Samuel Jackson is flawlessly rejuvenated by special affects. Jude Law plays her character with 100% persuasiveness and genuineness. Ben Mendelsohn as Tanos is the only reason I can recommend you to watch Captain Marvel online at Medium.

The directing and special affects are good but the fights are deprived of dramatism becuause of the all-mighty Vers.

Unfortunately the trolls who tried to sabotage the full movie with negative ratings on different online platforms even before the film was released for free may be right - the feminism makes the plot unattractive and unpleasant.

But this isn't feminism in normal, human, reasoned and understandable form. This is shown, compulsive, misunderstood feminism. In the last 10 years the cinema have a lot of examples of well developed female characters in Sci-Fi and action movies. The awesome and much better Wonder Woman is a good example in this case. But despite the phrase „Higher, further, faster“ Captain Marvel is far away from what other movies has accomplished.

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