Why can't I?

Betsy 2022-03-20 09:01:17

The older I get, the less I like the values ​​of superhero movies. The hard-working and hard-working villains are always inferior to others. The protagonist who is inexplicably blessed by luck becomes the king of the world without any effort. Humans are really contradictory animals. Since we were young, we were told that we have to work hard to gain results. Therefore, most people are diligent and diligent all their lives. They want to get better and better. Those who work hard want to be promoted and study hard. People want to excel regardless of their background. Human beings continue to instill in their next generation the principle that love and hard work can win self-deception

The opening of this movie is actually quite creative. At the beginning, I always thought that the lonely boy in glasses would become a hero who rises up and gets rid of the heartbreak situation that everyone despised. However, his fate is like a cruel reality. From 1974 Even the front desk of his father's company doesn't take him seriously. Because of an opportunity in his childhood, he spent almost all of his life researching how to become stronger Energy collection, sorting and researching the wizard temple I saw in my childhood. Looking at his physique, he changed his cowardly appearance and became more focused. The only evaluation that a person who can spend his life pursuing a goal is "without a pure heart"

Compared with the doctor, the male protagonist who is abducted by all means has been favored by fate from the beginning. He was abandoned by his teenage mother. The reason why the wizard elders chose him as the heir is that there is no more time. No temptation test No Approaching the ball of desire, the male protagonist gains superpowers at the speed of light. As a person who has no purpose in life except to find his mother, does he have a "pure heart"? It's a scam. The only condition for choosing an heir is if a wizard elder likes it.

Usually when the audience is watching a movie, they will substitute themselves into the protagonist as an ordinary person without a special talent background. Most of the time, the superhero in the movie can let us easily get over the addiction of being outstanding and return to the lazy and idle self in life.

It's just that it's fair to other people who are really hardworking, motivated, and struggling, but still get nowhere The difference between energy and desire to surpass talent. In the movie, this behavior or psychology is called "jealousy", one of the seven deadly sins. One is a doctor who spends his life doing one thing, and the other blames everything on his life experience when he can't find his mother. Underage gangsters, the former exhausts their energy and can't get superpowers, and the latter happens to be a god in an instant. If you are a doctor, are you "jealous" or "jealous"?

When the hardest-working child can't get the reward of a good student, when the most hard-working employee can't become a candidate for promotion, when the most persistent dream chaser can't fulfill the wish of a lifetime If you are the one who gives everything, do you also want to know Why did you become the "villain" in everyone's eyes because of your hard work? Why is life like this in movies?

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Shazam! quotes

  • [Shazam takes his siblings to a strip club]

    Darla Dudley: Why are you covering my eyes?

    Mary Bromfield: Really? This is the first place you think of? Wow!

    Darla Dudley: Why can't I see what's inside?

    Mary Bromfield: You are not old enough!

    Darla Dudley: Old enough to know that was great music!

  • Super Hero Eugene: [using a lightning blast to fight one of the Sins] Hadouken!