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iām sorryā¦ā¦ my legs are open.

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people who give deadpool & wolverine 0.5-2.5 stars and no heart on letterboxd just have to be the most insufferable people ever like sure, everyoneās entitled to their own opinion, but this is an opinion that tells me enough about you to know that i donāt want or need you in my life ā¤ļø and iām not even saying that the movieās a masterpiece, sure thereās a lot you can criticize plot-wise and stuff, but sometimes itās okay to just have FUN with a well-made comic book movie, itās really not that deep. and what annoys me the most about it, is that soo many of them are just like "only 12-year old boys or creepy disgusting 50-year old comic nerds will find this funny, this is so embarassingš" as if most people watching it arenāt pissing themselves from laughing so much. like sorry to bring it to you, but youāre not better than anyone just bc you donāt find deadpool funny, in fact, iād argue that youāre in a much sadder position than most people lol. most of us left the cinema with a smile on their face and can now participate in the awesomeness of the deadpool fandom, while you have to be a whining bitch on letterboxd <3
i just hope when Deadpool 3 comes out later this year, that thereās gonna be more Wolverine/Logan content! And possibly even more when the Wolverine video game comes out (eventually)!

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you're fun to talk to about media so I've got something to ask.
what do you think of this trope where a lie or misconception becomes commonly accepted as truth by the characters in story? especially as a resolution.
example: in the finale of "Kubo and the two strings", the Moon King(main villain) loses his memory, so when he asks who he is, the townspeople lie to him and say he was a kind member of the community, rather than the dictator he really was.
I don't like it. I see a falsehood being widely accepted as a tragedy, and I'm just left imagining what happens if/when the characters find out the truth. I can't really take something as a happy ending when it's.. y'know, fake. I imagine you feel similarly.
but hey, I could have totally missed the point of the ending of KATTS, if you watched it, you might have seen something I didn't.
I havenāt seen Kubo in a really long time; I donāt think I was thinking critically about it the first time I watched it, so my opinion now is an afterthought. Iād have to see it again to be fair!
ā¦But I do seem to remember that the villain is defeated with some importance placed on memory. And the identity of the monkey and that beetle warrior also have to do with the sacredness of memories. So, if thatās the case, then yeah, taking his memory away as a āgood resolutionā can kind of hamstring the whole theme of the movie. Unless you tilt your head and squint and go, āno, see, if all you have is bad memories, then itās just as powerful to take those awayāthe point is, memories have power either way!ā But even that feels a little half-baked, gymnastics-brainy.
Basically, I agree with you. A story that resolves with a character, or characters, accepting a lie as truth is always going to be a fumble of the whole storyā¦unless itās intended to be a tragedy, a cautionary tale. I can think of three where thatās super evident.
1 ) A Streetcar Named Desire
In this movie the main character, Blanche, is lying about who she is, for the whole story. She even has this great symbolism thing with lightāshe hates bright light, on the surface because sheās vain and doesnāt want anyone to see signs that sheās aging. But under the surface, the character is really an immoral, lust-filled, broken person who knows she can be cruel and isnāt deserving of love. She doesnāt want anyone to know that side of her. She hides it all under vainglory and pride. So she pretends to her sister, Stella, that sheās upright and moral and has simply fallen on hard times. But her sisterās brute of an abusive husband, Stanley, who is always 100% his authentic, awful self, sees through Blanche when she comes to stay with them. In the end, Stanley rapes Blanche and then carelessly shrugs her accusations off.
The main point of this example is that Stella, the wife of the rapist Stanley, has been portrayed the whole movie as sometimes-leaving her abusive husbandā¦but only as far as the apartment above their own, literally right above him, so that she can easily go back to him. And at the end of the movie, when Blanche is being taken to a mental institution because sheās broken-down after being found-out as a fraud, then raped, Stella lets them take her away. And then Stella goes up to the apartment above, where she always āpretendsā to leave Stanley. Itās such a halfhearted, lazy way to end a movie thatās all about desire-versus-truth. Because what it implies is that Stella is leaving Stanley for now, like she might believe that he raped her sisterā¦but sheāll eventually go back to him. And in the meantime, Blanche goes off to the mental hospital, with this iconic line āI have always depended upon the kindness of strangers.ā By which she means, āstrangers donāt know what a two-faced monster I really am, so I can con them into thinking Iām a morally-upright woman fallen on hard times, and theyāll take pity on meāso sure, Iāll go with you, strange doctor Iāve never met.ā
The central point of the movie is āas long as nobody looks the truth in the face, everyone can go on getting what they desire.ā
Of course, thatās true. But the other truth is that, if Stella accepted what her sister and her husband really areāher sister is broken and her husband is a monsterāthen she could choose to rise above āanimal desire.ā She could choose to take care of Blanche, and Blanche would see that āsomeone seeing who I really amā doesnāt always have to lead to ruin and damnation. Stella could then, also, choose to really leave Stanley, for good, and be at peace, while Stanleyās ādesireā would be rewarded with ruin.
But instead the opposite is what happens. Blanche goes away believing, in her broken mind, that her womanly wiles and faking will protect her from further injury, even though they never haveāStanley ends the movie exactly where he began it, screaming for Stella to come back and knowing that she willāand Stella, too, ends the movie going away from Stanleyā¦just for a little while, until animal desire convinces her to just pretend Stanley isnāt really a monster, Blanche must be crazy, except this time, when she goes back, sheāll be carrying a child into that abusive lie.
All characters wholeheartedly embracing hurtful lies so they can keep riding their desires. I hate that movie. You could see it as a cautionary tale. Most donāt. Most see it as a movie with āhot Marlon Brandoā who āreally loves Stellaāall the characters āreally love each other,ā they just donāt know how to express it healthily!ā š
I think the worst part is that the movie behaves as if it is true that every time Blanche reveals her own brokenness or is vulnerable, the world STOMPS on her for it, nobody loves her despite her brokenness. Thatās the real mistake this movie makes. It has an opportunity to show unconditional love and it leaves the audience thinking Blanche was right, and thereās no such THING as āunconditionalā love, instead.
Anyway.
2) X-Men Origins: The Wolverine
This one is less thematic. But itās just dumb because the whole movie the main character, Logan, Wolverine, is being taught that āGiving in to Bloodlust Makes You an AnimalāCompassion For Those Weaker Than Yourself Makes You Human.ā
So in that context, the whole narrative is centered around the exploration of āWho is Logan/Wolverine?ā
ā¦Which makes it really stupid that the movie ends with him losing his memory. Soā¦the movie asks āWho Are You?ā and right after the character figures it out, he forgets and ends it with the answer: āI donāt know who I am.ā
Thatās just a waste. Thatās silly. It allows you to take the character to real, hearty, coming-of-age, hero-forged-in-fire, a man-born-of-tragedy placesā¦and then just shrug all that stuff off at the end. āNever mind. But it was a fun ride, wasnāt it?ā
Especially because they built it all around the dichotomy between Logan and his brother, whoās little more than an animalāand Logan and his wife, who could be an animal, but chooses compassion instead, and reminds him of his choice, too. āand then she dies, and itās implied that maybe his brother does too, but who cares, cuz he forgets. Who cares? Not Logan. So why should the audience?
I get that they āneededā to do this so that the end of this movie sets up the beginning of the X-Men Movies, which already established that Logan canāt remember āhis past.ā But likeā¦then donāt make the point of the movie āWho Am I?ā just to end on āā¦Okay, So WHO AM I?ā
Itās a fine movie up until that point.
They shouldāve made the movie center around āCanāt Change What Youāve Done; But You Can Be Redeemed.ā And then show his memory loss around a moment of self-sacrifice. So that itās still tragic, but at least when he wakes up from the self-sacrificial act, heās āa new man.ā Then later, in the third X-Men movie, when Logan chooses that mutant kid over ālearning the secrets of his past,ā it all comes full circle, because his āself-sacrifice momentā can stay where the Old Logan died.
Anyway. You didnāt ask me to re-tell X-Men Origins: The Wolverine. But itās the same basic premiseāa movie ends with a character losing their memory, or believing a lieāwhatever.
You know, actually, this one isnāt so much ābelieving a lieā as it is āgoing back to considering the lie (that heās an animal) because all the work done to convince him of the truth has been stupidly erasedā
3) The Dark Knight
Saved this for last because nobody would read all that if they saw me scratching up the beloved Christopher Nolan Masterpiece.
But The Dark Knight is a perfect example of what youāre actually talking about.
The movie is awesome until the end.
Itās not hard to guess what Iām going to say. Harvey Dent is supposed to be a shining example of a good guy, and the goodness, that Gotham is capable of. The Goodness that will ultimately defeat Evil. And Evil is represented as Chaos.
Bruce sees that and thatās why heās willing to give everything to make Harvey succeed as the hero Gotham needs. Because if Gotham sees that evil can be conquered by doing things the right way, the orderly way, that will get Gotham out of itās āJustice is Broken, Vengeance is The Only Form of Justiceā cycle.
Then thereās the Joker. He doesnāt believe thereās any such thing as Goodāitās all just Chaos (which is evil.) And his big mission is to prove it. Itās ironic that he twists Harveyās sense of ājusticeā around to this viewpointāwhere Harvey uses āchanceā as just another form of āretribution.ā
Anyway. All of thatās interesting.
But the movie both perpetuates a lie and does so by having the characters end believing a lie.
The lie it perpetuates is āThe Joker is right, thereās no such thing as Justice or Goodāitās all just chaos, but pretending itās not can get you through the day.ā
Thatās the lie it perpetuates!
And how does it do that?
By having the ācity of Gotham,ā and Bruce himself, believe a lie.
They believe Harvey Dent really was a good guy who died a hero. Bruce believes Rachel died still waiting for him, which symbolized her supposed belief in the good of Bruce and capability of Bruce to let it all go.
And why was it important that they believe those lies? Because the supposed truth is too harshāthat thereās no Good, itās all Chaos. And if they believe that supposed truth, theyāll all turn out like Harvey or Joker. If Bruce believes Rachel chose Harvey, heāll supposedly give up on something important in himself.
Okay but the problem with that is you have characters believing a lie because of a truthāthat isnāt the truth. Itās the same problem with Streetcar.
The people of Gotham, the worst people of Gotham, arenāt always going to choose evil. There is such a thing as justice and good. And Harvey turning into Two-Face doesnāt change that. The movie couldāve shown that. It started to, with the prisoners on the second boat choosing not to kill the civilians to save themselves.
But it chose not to make that the point of the movie. It chose to make āThe Joker was Right, Good is a Comforting Lie, & the Closest Youāll Ever Get to Justice is Vengeance & Chaosā the point of the movie. By having Batman convince the whole city to believe the comforting lie, what youāre saying is, Bruce believes that the truth wonāt set Gotham free, only wrap it in chains.
Thatās the problem with these movies.
And thatās why I think Captain America: The Winter Soldier licks The Dark Knight hollow every time, and is all-in-all a better movie, hands down. In this continued essayā
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