In a hurry to watch this season of Daredevil in almost two days, there were neither too many surprises nor too many disappointments.
At the end of the season, Karen, the heroine of the previous season, replaced the old reporter of the previous season and cooked a pot of superhero chicken soup for us, but unfortunately, this pot of chicken soup always felt that it was not sublimated to the point, and even This season encapsulates the meaning of "New Yorkers, you are all heroes." To be honest, this is not surprising. After all, the theme of the entire second season has not been sublimated on the basis of the first season. The only spiritual connection we can decipher with the last season may be that Lawyer Ma finally realized that the Putting it into the judicial system and putting it into prison will not punish the real bad guys. If the last season was the birth of a hero, the birth of a new symbol of hope and redemption for a city, then this season our hero fell into dumbfoundedness and confusion.
First of all, maybe all superhero stories tell a story, of course not about the tragic death of a family member, but about the kind of thing we are in when the law can't punish the wicked and want them at least to be punished. strong desire. Then the birth of superheroes is probably the direct incarnation of such a strong desire. We may have long since abandoned those kind-hearted heroes who were created in the 1930s and 1940s. As society became more complex, cartoonists gradually introduced many complex traits into these images. The tones of the superhero comics are darker and heavier, from the earliest children's paintings of "Superman" next door to this Daredevil who can't even see the figure at all in the beginning of the fight , which is probably the best symbol of superheroes being gradually complicated.
The story of superheroes has gone from the initial sanctification of hero worship and admiration to today's de-sanctification. One thing is emphasized over and over again - they are ordinary people. Because he is an ordinary person, even if he has super powers, he is just an ordinary person who cannot control the whole situation. Cartoonists and screenwriters are their gods, and God says: I want you to gain and lose, and where there is light, there must be darkness. Therefore, like ordinary people, they can't predict what will happen tomorrow, and can't predict who the enemy's spear will be directed at next; they want to push away the people close to them and protect them from harm, but in the end they often have to face it. For loss; want to save everyone, but in the corner, somewhere unknown, the sin still continues, they can't save everyone. Or like the protagonist in this play, lawyer Ma has always chosen to believe in a system like the law that is maintained by social justice. Even though his vigilante life is all about lynching, he still chooses to put the power to decide life and death. To a powerful justice collective like the law. There is nothing wrong with this, and even this is a yardstick for dividing heroes and anti-heroes, but people are utilitarian animals - when the outcome is not as good as our expectations, we start to doubt ourselves. It's clear that modern superheroes, in their normal human image, have little control over how things go when they take off their vigilante uniforms: the villain of season one, and one that runs through the entire Daredevil franchise. At the end of the story, the boss Jin Bing, even in prison, can still call the wind and call the rain to dominate the world, oh, wrong, it is New York. At times like these, shouldn't our hero start to reflect on himself, whether his correct and idealistic values are still correct? Because no matter what option he chooses other than killing, such a person will still have the means to continue his evil deeds.
Shouldn't that be the case then? Of course not. First of all, you don't have any power to decide anyone's life or death, and even whether the law as a collection of civic consciousness has such power is debatable. It can be seen that the plot of sending Uncle Pu to court for trial in the play is the embodiment of this debate. Secondly, killing the ring is a hurdle that separates the last reason and madness. It's like when lawyer Ma put down his stubbornness due to self-doubt this season, sought to cooperate with Punisher and made a "kill" proposal, even Punisher couldn't stand it anymore. More often, people have too many reasons to cross this threshold, but there is only one reason to prevent themselves from crossing this threshold to madness. I think next door in "Under the Red Hood," where apparently Bat, who is probably the second most recognizable superhero figure in the world, might have more say in the question of not killing. When faced with the question of the former Robin about why he didn't avenge his dead self, the master was really helpless, because this is not a question of revenge or not, but a choice of whether to give up the self that has been built all the time.
I say that there are not many surprises because, although we have seen the confusion of heroes and the discussion of the paradox of justice, compared to the first season, which was successful at the beginning, we did not see much depth on such themes. And lawyer Ma even staged the daily life of a love triangle in this season, and parted ways with his best friend. At the same time, lawyer Ma also forgot his full-time job and became an almost full-time Didi beating. But I won't say that this makes the level of the whole drama directly waterloo. After all, we can understand the hardships of lawyer Ma in living a double-sided life. So I'm not surprised that nothing sublimated at the end of the season, because our hero has been so confused and hard, and he hasn't figured it out yet, how can we expect our audience to understand it too.
But if you want to say why you are not too disappointed, it must be because of the appearance of a character like the Punisher and the process of how he was shaped into a full image step by step.
I still remember the emphasis in a domestic film called "Gone Bullet", "Some people do bad things just because they are good people who have turned bad." Just like superheroes are embarrassed to call their debut without dying (no malicious...), anti-heroes, both good and evil, may also be explained by "good people who have turned bad". But there is one point, some people who emphasize that they or the person who committed the crime are "good people who have turned bad" may just excuse themselves or others for their crimes, and will never admit that they are criminals like these anti-hero characters, so they need to go to the world to be magnanimous. The punisher is here, the martyr who has crossed the threshold of not killing as mentioned above - after all, they have disregarded the means and moral constraints, the result is what really matters, if they want revenge, it is to kill you , that is, no-nonsense immediate execution. Such an unrestrained image is well represented this season with several extremely bloody strafing and killing scenes, it seems that only a mess of bullet holes and splattered blood can satisfy us anti-heroes who like to watch Image of the audience's tastes. But it does work, because the kind of shooting and fighting scenes that are supposed to represent horror, violence, and gore are the best way to represent a lunatic with no means and no moral restraint. But he's not completely crazy, because his bottom line is to punish those who deserve it, so he contains his anger in every shot and every punch. But in the end, his revenge was avenged, but his standard of doing things remained, and it was to be applied to the subsequent plots. Hope to see Uncle Pu continue to play.
There are actually many more characters that could be elaborated on, but I chose to talk about Karen enough.
She's really complicated, more complicated than she looks on the surface. I also like this actress who plays Karen, because from her image you really can't imagine that Karen's character has such a complicated past and is still so strong. Many barrages say that she is obsessed with exploring the truth about the Punisher, and she is obsessed with fully interpreting and reporting the Punisher's life, because she believes that there must be absolute reasons for people to cross the line of not killing. ——This is the projection of her begging for redemption for her murderous actions. Last year, as soon as I finished watching the first season, I saw a list of all the comic-related easter eggs in the first season. Among them, Karen's character has more dark history in the comics, mainly drug use, and it can be speculated that her knowledge of firearms is also gained from this experience. I hope the third season, there should be, can gradually dig out Karen's life experience, I think she is the kind of person who has a lot of dark history, and whether or not she feels guilty about killing, or trying to find out from the experience of the punisher Redemption, she is probably just someone who wants to start a simple and ordinary life from scratch. There's a lot of debate here for next season to dig into, but I want to see more of her because I think for now that she really deserves this chance to live a normal life again.
And Erica is really beautiful, even more beautiful in red.
It's the director, photography, and post-production, can you have a snack? The tone of the film is so dark that I can't even see the protagonist and the enemy, let alone appreciate Erica's red body. How about the shades of our first season? Don't be in such a hurry to learn the special dark shades next door...
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