If popular superhero movies show the ideal image of a model politician, then "Black Pickets" shows what is actually possible.
The superheroes in "Black Robe Picket", especially the Motherland and Storm Front, are all superficially bright, but in fact they are very bad and very bad. So, does "Black Robe Picket" belittle the super-Englishization? Isn't it? You can't think that it is opposing superhero culture just because it shows superpowers badly and darkly. This understanding is too superficial.
The prerequisite for superheroes to be positive is that the unity of rational individuals cannot be restricted or kidnapped by an organization or group. A true hero must be an individual with a high probability of achieving moral goals. Leaving this premise and understanding the Chaoying narrative from superpowers alone, there would be no foundation. Those super-British movies and TV dramas described from the front tell stories in this way, and "Black Robe Pickets" also tell stories in this way. They have a common moral goal, so they are also different ways of telling the same story.
The bad super-England (superpowers) in "Black Robe Picket" are so bad because they have lost the premise of the positive super-England. These bad superpowers lack "individual morality." They are attached to interest groups, controlled by interest groups, and deceive the people. They are not superheroes at all, they just misappropriated their heroic identity.
The value orientation of "Black Robe Pickets" is the orientation of Chaoying's narrative. If it is a little non-mainstream, then it may be hypocritical to public figures and behave a little more. Those in power have many methods to deceive the people.
A widespread deception: who is the real hero? Is it a powerful person? Or the people who have no resistance?
There is a line that the powerful "motherland man" said to ordinary people: You are the real heroes. This line is very interesting, "Motherlanders" put on a look of rejecting personality worship, and said something nice to the public. However, those people are still living in fear, in a state of being fooled and deceived. A group of people who cannot control power and have no resistance cannot become heroes. Even if you are a hero, you are just playing like a monkey.
That nice slogan deceived the people and was also used to demean the rebels. The people of the motherland seem so humble, so praise the general public, so you say bad things about the people of the motherland? You say you are too bad. The people are not only deprived of the power to resist, but also deprived of the rationality of resisting.
The title of "homelander" is an expression of the right to speak and a walking archway. He himself, the company he serves, represents the country. So they can earn money grandiosely. Of course, if the people of the motherland and the company that made them publicize it, it must be: the people of the motherland and the company that made heroes serve the people.
Why in conventional superhero stories, heroes mostly act alone and mostly privately? Because they want to be separated from the people? of course not. As for the reason, I have roughly mentioned it when talking about the morality of superheroes. On the contrary, people who have more contact with the people will most likely need to incite the people, just like politicians in a democratic society in reality.
In "Black Robe Pickets", the natives in the first season and the storm frontline in the second season are very happy to walk into the public. They need to create their own image of being close to the people and they need to incite the people. People who don't know the truth just use those hypocritical public figures as their own spokespersons. The deceived people are willing to cheer for those hypocritical public figures.
Those public politicians who fool the people package themselves as superpowers, so that the people have expectations of themselves, hoping that these characters can maximize their own interests. In this way, the people became believers, and those superpowers became saviors. Many scenes in "Black Robe Picket" are moved from American social reality. In addition to the shouts of fanatical people, there are also nice slogans, and fanatical people's gatherings-these are the daily manifestations of public figures deceiving the people.
It can be said that how hypocritical the public figures and how oppressive the people are, then the situation reflected in "Black Robe Pickets" is so dark. Regardless of the ending, no matter the sorrow and joy, this darkness is the proof.
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