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The world is not yet ready for a movie like "The Eternal"

"Eternal" may not be perfect, but it's worse than comics, which have a much calmer reception, and have a lot of talent, humanity and ambition.

If the critics were not busy counting how many blacks and gays there are in it, they would notice that he dares to rewrite the story of creation and ask where God was in the Holocaust

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• Kit Harrington

• Angelina Jolie

Avner Shavit

Sunday, 07 November 2021, 00:00

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Trailer for the movie "Eternal" (Film Forum)

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The past week has been an interesting test for American society, and the results are pretty clear.

In the middle of the week, there were several local elections, in which the winners were usually Republicans, or moderate Democrats, which was interpreted, among other things, as a counter-reaction to the progressive takeover of the discourse.

This weekend, and in contrast to thousands of differences, was released "Eternal" - the most Woke film to date by Marvel Studios, ie the most politically conscious and correct, which has an attempt to give as loyal and widespread representation as possible to various groups of society.

Behind the camera stood Chloe Zhao, who earlier this year was recorded thanks to "Land of the Nomads" as the first woman of Asian descent to win an Oscar for directing. In front of the camera, we meet a host of superheroes and superheroes who together create a diverse mosaic: the lead roles are played by Gemma Chan, a British father from Hong Kong and her mother from China, and Komil Nanjiani, who was born in Pakistan before developing a Hollywood career. Alongside them you can also find a gay black man, played by Brian Thierry Henry, and in time it turns out that the partner of this character is an Arab. This is the first gay out of the closet in Marvel movies, and this primacy also applies to Lauren Ridloff, deaf in reality who plays such a character here. This list, which sometimes looks like an inlay of a center-right Knesset party, also includes Selma Hayek and the Korean-American Don Lee, but also Angelina Jolie and some actors who are just white (but hot) men for example Richard Madden, Kit Harrington and Berry Kyogen.

Everything, then, was ready to celebrate the economy of the wings of history, what's more, "Eternal" is not just another movie for Marvel.

The intention was to use it to create an entirely new film series in the spirit of "The Avengers".

But intentions apart, and reality apart.

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From "The Eternal" (Photo: Film Forum)

The comic book empire used to get caresses and even licks from the media, but "The Eternal" won a barrage of tomatoes, and was crowned as one of the studio's least successful films. Audience reactions are also mixed, and following all this, Marvel have announced that at this point, they are not burning to produce the pledge.

As usual nowadays, the storm surrounding the film has become more talked about than the thing itself. There were those who argued in response that the problem is in the identity of the doers and doers in the craft, and critics find it difficult to pargan for a production directed by the same woman. By the way, most of those who made this claim were actually men, perhaps in an attempt to prove how righteous and pure they are. Opposite them stood critics who remarked that there was something sexist assuming a woman was incapable of directing a bad movie.

But is the "eternal" really that bad? Well, I came to him without expectations and overall I was pleasantly surprised, despite countless flaws and above all his intricate plot, based on Jack Kirby's original comic. We will try to summarize the chain of events: the film is called a group of superheroes, creatures of the creation of some celestial being. They exist in the same cinematic universe along with "The Avengers", but if anyone is wondering how it is that we have not seen them intervene in clashes in previous films, there is a reason of course - like some post-World War II armies, they were banned from intervening in wars. They are allowed and even desirable to act against the "deviations", monsters that occasionally pop up to visit in order to destroy the human race.

Plot-wise, the "eternal" outside between two pliers.

His script is required to explain the whole story of this background, which of course gets more complicated, and at the same time to prepare the ground for the next films in the series.

Thus, it functions as the pledge for a film that was not, and as a prequel to a sequel that is unlikely to be.

A one-time eternity.

From "The Eternal" (Photo: Film Forum)

Another problem is the unimpressive effects. If even in 2021 such an expensive film looks like this, cinematic technology probably has a long way to go. Nor does it have one good action scene for medicine, and its highlights are a complete anti-climax. This saga is very long on paper, 157 minutes, and in practice the feeling is that the result is even longer.

Still, there is also something to be said for the film. First of all, the diversity in it seems completely organic, and not forced for a moment. Those characters of the kind we have not seen before in Marvel cinema easily justify their place, and along the way are also educated to inspire. Those who are experts on the "progressive troll", who will remember that the disqualifier in Momo disqualifies. What's really funny, or sad, is that even in a movie like this there are a lot of white men, probably more than their relative share of the population.

Chloe Zhao, one way or another, loves everyone and everyone. The film uses the mythology of the "Eternal" to explain how human development has led to unnecessary wars and the destruction of the planet, but refuses to give up and give up on us. In a way reminiscent of "Angels in the Sky of Berlin", the protagonists and superheroes are conducted here as a kind of Greek choir watching us and shocking us, but also compassionate, falling in love with us and fascinated by us - so fascinated that some are willing to give up eternal life to become human.

As one might have imagined in her previous films, and especially in her best film, "The Rider," Zhao is a true humanist, and her humanity washes the screen from the first second of "The Eternal" and for all the eternity the film lasts. As in her previous works, this time too she makes good use of the landscapes in which the plot takes place, and of course also works with the team - almost all of the gameplay displays here are excellent.

Less bad than "Justice League".

From "The Eternal" (Photo: Film Forum)

The one who stands out especially is Gemma Chan in the lead role.

There were those who remarked that she had almost no facial expressions, but that was exactly the point: her face was expressionless, but full of melancholy, and they reflected the existential distress in which her character and the rest of her friends lay.

"Eternal" is similar in many ways to Zhao's previous films, but also allows her to paint on a wider canvas, and to ask existential questions.

The script here stands up and dares to present the deepest and most complicated difficulties, for example "Why are we here?", "What does God want from us" and "Where was God in the Holocaust"?

And does so with boldness and ambition.

If his conservative opponents hadn’t been busy counting how many blacks and how many gays there are in it, maybe they would have noticed that this comic book rewrites the creation story - a slightly bolder move than one casting decision or another.

He is treated like a new panda bear that has arrived at a zoo.

From "The Eternal" (Photo: Film Forum)

Is "Eternal" his total pretensions and masterpiece?

Definately not.

Is it worse than other comics that drew much less fire, such as the director's version of "Justice League?"

also not.

It is a unique, ambitious and interesting film, bursting with emotion, faith, ideas and talent.

So why are the reactions to him so emotional?

This is probably already a topic for another discussion.

One thing is for sure: the fact that many countries around the world boycotted it, and even the Western world treats it at best as a curiosity, as if it were a new panda coming to a zoo and not as a net cinema, proves the world is not yet ready for a movie like "Eternal."

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