The first steps must be a lesson for all of us

This article contains Spoilers For “Fantastic Four: First Steps.”

The scenario is often home to some of the most exciting words that a person pronounces – pieces of dialogue mainly change the way the audience looks at the world around them. Personally, I have a convergence when the moments of brilliance appear in the most unexpected places. the 1994 The movie “Street Fighter” is treated like a punching bagBut the line, “for you, the day that Bison was your village was the most important day in your life. But for me, it was Tuesday,” he lived in my head without rent. If there is any line that reinstated my understanding of society, then it is a line from the agent K in “Men in the Lions”. In the scene, Agent J asks about the decision to keep foreigners secretly from humanity, claiming, “People are smart. They can deal with it.” Customer J opposes this by saying, “The person is smart. People are stupid, panic, dangerous animals, and you know that.”

This uncomfortable fact that is still standing when a new wave of collective hysteria appears as a result of fear, and one “Fantastic Four: First Steps” is elected to explore. The latest movie in Marvel Cinematic University follows the first Marvel family – married scientists Red Richards, also known as MR. Fantastic (Pedro Pascal); Soo Storm, nicknamed the invisible girl (Vanessa Kirby); Sue Johnny Storm, also known as the human flame (Joseph Quinn); And the best friend of Red Bin Jaraim, also known as an EBON MOSS-Bachrach. The Quartet was changed by cosmic radiation during a space mission and returned to the Earth as super heroes, and they were transferred to popular and protective celebrities all over the world. when Galactus threatens to eat the ground What Red and Sao did not give him their newborn baby, the citizens of the Earth respond are like Mim, everyone is a favorite Michael Jordan.

That is, until Sue Storm provides an influential speech, and the whole world suddenly decides to enter and work together as a team like “Independence Day”. Ah, to live on Earth-828

“Fantastic Four: First Steps” is on the Earth-828, which is a utopia modifying chaos in the middle of the century similar to an intersection between “Mad Men” and “The Jetsons”. Thanks to the scientific developments of Richards, their world appears happier than our king. Fantastic Four has mainly unified all citizens of the planet, and everyone coexists in harmony. Most of the threats are those that come from distant worlds, and those inside are treated quickly. Hell, even “The Mole Man” Harvey Rupert Elder (Paul Walter Hauser) rules underground underground under the streets of New York City and believe his own work. But “the first steps” sees how this world responds when it faces an unacceptable threat due to peaceful negotiation, or even four people modified with the great powers.

Galactus has always been one of the largest wicked in the world of Marvel Comics: a cosmic entity that consumes planets to maintain the strength of his life. Silver Surfer (Julia Garner) has become one of Heralds Galactos in exchange for sparing her own planet, and it forever will come with the burden of being a harbinger of death. As a threat of Galactus is presented, it is not different from the anxiety that we experience daily with the increase in fascism, climate change, war, genocide, poverty and repression. The planet is in danger, society eats itself, and if we do not discover how to work together, we will go to self -destruction without The existence of God who eats the planet. Earth-828 citizens respond as expected when they know that Galactus will reap their planet if Red and Soo the child Franklin give it, because regardless of their spread compared to Earth 1218, fear continues to highlight our primitive instincts to survive.

They are angry at Fantastic Four, protest outside their home, and they call them selfish to choose to save the child, and thus put the rest of them in a fatal danger. Reed Richards tries to mediate in science and mind, with emotional speeches, or hiding within the safety of the Paxter building, but all his tactics prove sterile. Suu Storm decided to come face to face with her fearful community, brought her with the child Franklin with her, and she chose not to see, but to check their fears and talk to them in an equal stadium.

It works.

By designing its powers, Sue Storm is not a bad player. Her hidden and ability to create power fields put them naturally to be a defensive or even negative contributor. When you talk to the audience, she does not flourish with a strong advertisement like Captain America explains the price of freedom or Tony Stark reveals that he is an Iron man. She tells her community that she looks at them as a family, and that “the family revolves around the fighting for something greater than yourself.” It is a simple message, but it is a message that angry demonstrators buy completely and immediately … because humans are in Earth-828, while they are still the same stupid, panic, as we are, better than we are.

The women in the superheroes hated an outdated and disturbing. Even when women’s characters are coded as male as possible and act similarly to their male counterparts, the fact that they are women are sufficient for people to completely verify the movie or It actively contributes to the fall of the movie … and this is just hatred offered when discussing Fictional slim. In our reality, Earth-1218, Men see the powerful women as threats. During the recent presidential elections, critics were Still The tired sexual cup parrot that women are very emotional to be leaders, and we see an increasing number of children Those who repeat hate women and girls To the extent that it becomes fatal.

It is clear that a super film made under the umbrella of Disney will not kill a child for the plot, so the public is never intended to be afraid that a terrified person will expand the scope of Boxter and Franklin’s sacrifice to Galactos. It is not “comfortable for conspiracy” that the world on board with the Red Richards plan to transfer the land away from Galcotos (and then, Galcus away from Earth) because society has already listened to a woman – Umm – She did not guess her second intentions. It is a criticism of our own world to make such a simple solution appear impossible. We do not have to be like this. Things can be better for all of us.

We just have to put BS aside, stop fear, and take the first step.