So I was pleasantly surprised after reading it, because it looked much better than expected. One sentence summary is that the MCU civil war is no longer the civil war in the 616 universe in the comics, but the captain is still the captain, Iron Man is still Iron Man, the Winter Soldier is still the Winter Soldier, and everyone is still themselves.
First,
let’s not say much about the overall impression of the exciting action scenes. It was because "American Team 2" had the hard-core action style of the "Bourne Shadows" series. Vigorous, crisp, and practical, everyone has their own characteristics, and they focus on teamwork, dazzling fit skills, and enjoyable.
Regarding the story, my personal impression is that this is a rare Marvel movie that has made me feel sincere in the past two years. Although there is still a "Marvel movie formula", it does tell a complete story seriously and vividly. This story is more complicated than I thought. There are three branches of Black Panther, Zemo, and The Avengers. The story is very clear, organized and logical, and advanced in layers. Although there are many roles, the primary and secondary roles are distinct. I didn't expect to rely on blunt jokes to cover up the simple plot, and I didn't feel that certain characters, such as Zemo, were wasted. Most of the characters appearing in the film serve for the storyline, because there is no single-player movie plan for them in the short term (except for Black Panther and Little Spider), so the director did not waste his pen and ink on unnecessary character creation, and everyone focused on highlighting. Out, click to the end, I appreciate that. Because the contradictions within the Avengers are already full, there is no need to vigorously create an evil villain to set off the heroes. Zemo doesn't have many roles, and his role is more to promote the plot, but at the end his few self-confessions concisely and accurately stated the character's tragic and criminal motives, which made me feel that he is another brain-disabled villain. I understood his reason, and realized that he is actually one of the few outstanding villains in Marvel movies who has an IQ, a methodical, and a certain degree of success in doing evil.
And, I really like the lines of this film, which are in line with the characteristics of the characters, concise, witty, and moderately humorous, which is very good.
2. Regarding the plot,
regardless of the film’s publicity strategy and the information conveyed by various interviews, I personally think that it is not really an in-depth discussion and debate on "freedom or supervision, which is better?" Although the story mainly revolves around the contradiction of "for public safety and social order, should the monitoring and control of government agencies override the personal freedom and choice of superheroes", but it is a US team movie after all, just like " Like Team US 2, it has clearly reached a conclusion that personal freedom and rights are more important. The whole story is advanced on this basis. The content that may cause obvious controversy is removed, and the plot is simplified and clear. It obviously makes people feel that politicians have too many things to consider, so they don’t care about the truth. In the end, the government will not be truly reliable. Instead of giving up freedom for the sake of safety, it is better to believe in the power and judgment of human beings (heroes).
It is precisely because of this that the captain and Iron Man have always been in line with the principle of "friendship first, game second" and fought in a harmonious and friendly atmosphere. Although the fight was fierce, the fight was justified, and there was no resentment between each other. Emotions; Tony’s side is not a hardline registration faction who is completely standing with the United Nations. They are just following their own concept of maintaining social order, and when they find that the government’s actions have deviated from their original intentions, they quickly adjusted their positions. Respond and change. So five-sixths of the movie I watched did not feel the expected serious and cruel emotions of death and death. I only felt that this was a process of running-in between the members of the Avengers. Although the noisy was fierce, it was still a united front at the critical moment. Unanimously external.
So when I saw the last one-sixth, I suddenly discovered that the signing of the agreement was just a representation, and the real core of this film was revenge. Black Panther, Zemo, Captain Winter Soldier Iron Man, these three story lines were all developed with revenge as the core. They each have their own hatred, and because of their different personalities, they chose different solutions, which eventually led to the whole story and got different results; and their hatred is intertwined with each other for cause and effect, and the reasons for revenge are also understandable.
But as the captain said, we try our best to save as many people as possible, but that doesn't mean everyone. If you can't face this problem, maybe even one person won't be saved next time. Things in the world often have no reason to be uncontrollable. Doing a good thing requires taking risks. The greater a good thing, the greater the risk. Heroes can’t save the world, but they will continue to do good things if they know this, and they dare to face and bear the consequences. The unpredictable consequences that come, after all, if you stop saving the world because you are afraid of risks, the world will probably get worse, and you yourself will feel ashamed for not doing your best.
Some of the tragedies in this film are caused by world affairs, and some are caused by uncontrollable consequences because of doing good deeds. In short, all living beings are suffering, and all sentient beings are evil. Life is like a cup, no one is wrong, but No one is necessarily right, so the donor, dare to ask where is the way? Please watch "Captain America 3: Civil War", after watching it, I am still confused and helpless, but, my friends, this is life.
3. Regarding the role of
Iron Man: I like Tony here very much. He is full of character and has a sense of responsibility and rational introspection as a hero; he is not paranoid, and when he realizes that his original idea is wrong, he puts down his pride and does not care about personal gains and losses. Action strategy, because he himself is not important, it is most important to do things right. I think this is very heroic.
Captain: He is still a captain who advocates justice and freedom and sincerely believes that people are powerful. He is stubbornly obnoxious and stubbornly admirable. Some people say that he is either black or white and does not understand flexibility, but I think that in a world full of gray areas, it takes courage and strength to be able to persist without compromise. His style has always followed Peggy's words: If you can compromise, then compromise; if you can't compromise, then don't. Even if the whole world says you are wrong, what you have to do is still stand on the spot like a tree, and then look at the other person's eyes and tell him: No, you are the one who wants to change.
Winter Soldier: Struggling with his survival instinct and conscience awakening, he does not complain about his pain, and he dares to face the blood and sinful past. He is really a good man.
I like every one of the others.
Fourth, on the position
In my opinion, the reason for the disagreement between Iron Man and the captain in the movie is actually a correlation problem in statistical analysis. This problem is mentioned in the movie: Since Tony announced that he will become Iron Man, the number of superheroes has emerged more and more, which has brought challenges, and challenges caused conflicts and triggered disasters. There is a certain correlation coefficient between the two sets of data "appearance" and "disaster occurrence", and third-party supervision is an optimization plan that can intervene and reduce this correlation coefficient in the future. This is a formula, the result of purely rational calculation of Vision.
Tony is a scientist. His thinking mode is very similar to Vision. He chooses the best solution based on rational analysis. Therefore, he believes that the Avengers lack a scientific decision-making mechanism involving third parties, and only establish this mechanism. In order to impose more reasonable regulatory constraints on the Avengers, the unknown harm of the action can be controlled to a minimum.
I have seen someone say that Tony is essentially playing the law-based prosecution route, signing the agreement first and then revising the terms and conditions afterwards. Through the use of bureaucratic means, the Avengers can continue to punish evil and promote good. I think this is not what the movie meant. Because Tony really wanted to control the harm very sincerely, he was trying to solve the loss and insecurity they brought to the public as the head of the Avengers in the signing of this agreement. He did say when he persuaded the captain. It was possible to improve the security of the Avengers by modifying and adding certain details of the agreement, but because of this, he believed that he was playing with the law and taking the bureaucratic route, which would be biased. What's more, what Tony tried his best to avoid from beginning to end is exactly the words "whatever you want".
Roddy, who has been in the military all the year round, agrees with and trusts in the supervision and operation of the United Nations, and therefore supports the signing of the agreement; Natasha, as a spy who is accustomed to keenly assessing current events and making decisions that is best for her, believes that she can only be a spy. Only when her hands are still on the steering wheel can she have autonomous control. In order to reassure the public that she still has autonomy, she also chose to support the agreement.
However, the problem with statistics is that although the calculated data results are objective, the interpretation of the results is relatively subjective. Correlation also does not indicate causality. Whether the appearance of the disaster brought the hero or the appearance of the hero brought the disaster, the calculation of the illusion can not prove it. Moreover, statistics itself tends to remove differences and obtain group commonality. This kind of statistical results based on a large amount of data will be more accurate if applied to a large sample size group, but it may not be true if it is applied to individual individuals. It must be analyzed on a case-by-case basis. Not to mention whether the amount of data used by Vision for calculation is large enough, will the data selection be biased due to the proportion of events experienced by the existing heroes in the MCU so far, only for the two individuals of the captain and Iron Man, The results of this statistical result on them are basically the opposite.
Tony is a protector, but also a creator. I must insert a paragraph of my opinion about "Tony is always forcing the culprit". Many successful people have a feeling that the greater your success, the more failures and mistakes you will experience. Throughout the history of human civilization development, all progress contains countless mistakes, and great scientific breakthroughs are often accompanied by huge risks. Tony is basically one of the most prolific and outstanding inventors in the entire MCU and even the comic universe. With his achievements, he must have experienced millions and tens of millions of failures, and there must be some of these failures. Cause serious consequences. What happened to technology being used by bad guys? What happened to Ultron? People have never scolded Einstein for discovering the mass-energy equation because the atomic bomb was invented. The greatest discovery must contain the most intractable danger. This is the universe. Basic operating rules, I never think that letting Tony make mistakes is wronging him forcing him to blame, because I never expected a scientist who only made achievements but made no mistakes. The important thing is that he is responsible for his mistakes, facing them, correcting them and then moving on, this is where his charm lies.
Back to the topic. In the movie, in Tony's words, looking at me from Pepper's point of view is a troublesome spirit, but I have never stopped, and I don't want to stop. I think no one understands better than Tony, if he stops making mistakes and causing trouble, he also stops creating and succeeding. Judging from Tony’s experience, some of the disasters he prevented are inseparable from himself, and he advocates rationality and doubts human nature, and believes that individual judgments are difficult to be objective and fair, so in order to avoid "good intentions doing bad things." , Third-party supervision can be a good way to evaluate the behavior of the Avengers from another angle.
Throughout the captain's experience so far, he is not a creator, he is just a protector, so he does not cause disasters but prevents them. Even if accidental casualties were caused in the process, it was an inevitable battle cost, which could be reduced by continuously improving personal capabilities, but it was not a major decision-making error by the Avengers. In his opinion, although the occurrence of disasters and the appearance of heroes are related to each other, the appearance of heroes is to end the disaster and save the world without making the situation worse. Therefore, third-party supervision is of little significance. In addition, 117 countries and countries have their own interests. The decision-making process is bound to be inefficient and delays time. The Avengers are bound to act as hard as they can. Judging from the experience of New York and Washington, high-level decision makers will even make the situation because of their own limitations. Get worse. As long as the manager is a human being, there will be self-interest, and there will be variables and risks. If you do not believe in the Avengers for this reason, then you should not believe in the United Nations.
I saw someone saying that the captain believes in the goodness of human nature, and all people will eventually understand their good intentions and believe in the free will judgment of human beings. Therefore, it is advocated that heroes should eliminate evil and promote good as they wish. This view is still biased. First of all, the captain does not think that the people will understand them in the end. On the contrary, he understands that many people do not understand or even resent, but as a superhero, you must learn to accept this if you want to save people, and insist on doing what you think is correct in the voice of doubt. Thing. Secondly, the captain’s so-called freedom is not “punish evil and promote good as he pleases”; he believes in people, but not everyone. He only believes in some individuals, such as the members of the Avengers. He believes that they have correct judgment and self-discipline. This self-discipline allows them to make the right choice without control, instead of making arbitrary choices.
As for the reason why Wanda finally chose the captain's side, it was not because of the rebellion of Tony's imprisonment, but the words she said to Vision: I can't control the fear of others, but I can control my own fear. This is exactly what the captain is pursuing: you can't control other people's thoughts, but you can restrict your behavior through practical actions and prove to everyone that you are reliable. In contrast, Vision's reaction is: if you escape, the world will always fear you. -He believes that external control is the best way to eliminate public panic. This is very similar to Tony's point of view-it is not wrong, it is based on a pessimistic view of human nature and the world.
However, as said before, although this movie is called Civil War, the real core is not disagreement, but revenge. I think that rather than discussing which party is more important than freedom and supervision, it wants to talk about being a human being. No matter how hard you work, you will certainly not be completely rational and objective. Panthers can’t do it, the captain can’t do it, Tony It couldn't be done. Even Vision, a high-level artificial intelligence, finally realized that he would be disturbed by sensibility, because after all he has a gem of the soul, and if he has a heart, he has emotions. Of course we need laws and norms to restrain ourselves and maintain society, but we can't just rely on external control, because the pursuit of rationality is very important, but blindly pursuing rationality and neglecting human nature is not in line with the needs of human development.
One of the important differences between heroes and villains is that when the same uncontrollable natural disasters and man-made disasters fall on them, the villains resent fate, and the hero accepts it. For people like Zemo, feelings make him lose his judgment and self-discipline and make wrong decisions, but for the Black Panther Winter Soldier and every Avenger, they can use their personal strength to overcome the weakness of emotion to survive the misfortune of life. Can the UN oversight be credible? Is it advisable to make your own claim? This question cannot be answered because it is not the ultimate question. The ultimate question is whether people themselves can be trusted. All the plots of this movie at the end express one point of view, that is, maybe not everyone is reliable, but sometimes, some people do have great personalities, of course they have emotions, of course they will be lost, but they After all, he will make the right choice and be responsible for his actions. Such people actually deserve a little more trust.
If you choose to believe, then many hatreds are no longer hatred, and many problems are no longer problems. But it is a pity that in this world where there are traps everywhere, most people can no longer simply give trust in this way, and this is the real tragedy, not only for the heroes, but also for every ordinary citizen. Of course, it is even more for those of us who are constantly arguing about whether the captain is a selfish iron man or whether it is wrong or not.
Fifth, it is purely interesting.
1. This cameo is the principal of Greendale in "Waste Wood Alliance". This person really has his own comedic effect. Smile knowingly.
2. After Tony’s speech, the actress who accused him of killing her son had collaborated with Robert Downey Jr. in "Shuttle Between Yin and Yang" twenty years ago. The characters in the play are like mother and son; the actress of Aunt Spiderman is also I have worked with Robert Downey Jr. in two movies and seem to have been dating. This time Tony also teased Little Spider’s aunt twice for being attractive; coupled with the 20-year-old Tony in the film, these details make "Beautiful Team 3" look like There seems to be a little nostalgic taste.
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One digression:
I watched the latest episode of "The Good Wife" yesterday, and I was very emotional. Since the fifth season of the show, the plot has become more and more complicated. The problems encountered by each protagonist almost make me suspect that the screenwriter’s psychology is dark and unhappy. I often feel that if such troubles are spread to me, I really want to To die. But the characters just sighed, went home at night and drank half a bottle of red wine alone, and went out the next day and was another hero. Directors seldom express how pitiful they are from a sympathetic standpoint. Everyone's reaction after learning about a problem is just to accept it, face it, solve it, and then continue to enjoy life and meet the next problem.
So I think that life is a game. I wait for ordinary people to be at level 10-20, while the level of superheroes may be at level 30-40. Everyone will encounter a boss that matches their current level. When I wait for a level 10 player to look up to a level 40 player, I feel that their boss is so powerful that I can't beat it! But for level 40 players, the difficulty is actually similar to that of us against level 10 bosses. Therefore, it is not necessary to have a level 10 heart rate for a level 40 belly, or a level 40 heart rate for a level 10 belly. Everyone just lives in an environment that matches their own abilities. Although level 40 players have encountered many difficulties, their courage to face the world and the happiness they bring and the satisfaction of realizing the value of life may not necessarily be enough. Fewer than level 10 players. Driven by this kind of thinking, although every hero does have a lot of misery and helplessness, I don’t feel too sad, but on the contrary, I always become a greater person because they can overcome such a difficult situation. .
When I wrote this film review, I didn't expect anyone to watch it, so the format was messed up. I just edited it, I hope it won't cause trouble to everyone. Thank you so much for loving this article. bow!
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