"Thor: Love and Thunder": Barlain idea of ​​the death of the gods

Taika Waitita talks about the hopeless universe in which deities forgot about humanity

In the world rental, the second film of Taikiti about the Torah, the Gromovets from the Marvel universe, with Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman, was released. The film critic Anton Dolin tells how the witty director portrayed the end of the era of the omnipotent gods, showing them simultaneously ridiculous and selfish. From the very beginning, “Thor: Love and Thunder” asks the audience the question: do the endless superhero blockbusters need the endless superhero blockbusters when humanity is experiencing one crisis after another?

In the heroic burlyg of the New Zealand, Taikiti “Thor: Love and Thunder” - the second in a row of “solo” film about the Scandinavian God, who shoots this original director - the estate of the celestials of Asgard naturally turned into an ordinary entertainment park with restaurants, attractions and the field theater.

There, artists play scenes from the life of Odin, Loki and Thor (Sam Nill, Matt Damon and the older brother of the title role of Luke Hemsworth, respectively) for unpretentious tourists, constantly returning to the dramatic episode of the death of the Father God. When a real tragedy occurs in Asgard, a certain infernal villain, like the Gamelnsky rat , abducts all the children, we become witnesses of an awkward moment: against the backdrop of the general turmoil and grief, the actors climb into the forefront and ask if they also put a performance on this. They, however, do not need an answer - inspired by inspiration, under the tears of orphaned parents they go to work.

It is not clear whether we are doing here with the reflection of the Bosses Disney and Marvel and whether they really are aware of how strange a jokes of the retarded backward God (the crown role of Chris Hemsworth), more and more reminiscent of the “dude” of Lebovsky, looks in the current context. But we can assume that Taika Waititi realizes this with all clarity. Why, if not counting the fee, he takes the next - it is clear in advance that not the most brilliant - a film of an endless superhero franchise?

Perhaps the answer lies here: the comedian does not have another option of actions, whether he puts the “mousetrap” in Elsinor or humor about the death of Odin in the amusement park. He can only work - grimace, grimace, improvise - and believe in the meaningfulness of what will be able to say from the stage.

It is to say, not to show. Waititi is a very witty person, but he is deprived of a special gift for purely Hollywood entertainment, and the expected epic scenes in the film look weak. This is especially true for fights with “shadow monsters” drawn on a computer: it is almost impossible to see them, who will seriously get scared?

With playwright in the fourth “Torah” is also not all right: on the one hand, endless cliches like the story with kidnapping, on the other, artistic and implausible plot turns that cause only bewilderment. However, it must be remembered that universal criteria are not suitable for such a movie. Firstly, this is the Marvel blockbuster, and secondly, it was shot by a hazard of Waititi. It remains to enjoy what turned out well here.

“Thor: Love and Thunder” is more successful than the several previous franchise paintings proves the theorem that the new strong floor is women. And who to expose to the laughing stock, if not a Torah - an obsolete icon of caricatural masculinity, here for the laughter of a laughter, also the guns n "roses (on the final credits to finish the viewer, the late Ronnie James Dio).

The arrogance and narcissism of the Torah, its infantility and unquestioned confidence in their irresistibility allow to be released from the charming artist of Hemsworth by a kind of hem of the Celestial Falstaff . While the appearance of Natalie Portman leaves no doubt: the thunder God will have to move. The showdown of Thor with his ax, which, seems to him, is jealous of his former companion - the hammer of Mjelnir, are terribly ridiculous and performed. Against this background, relations with ex-lover fades.

But there is a thought in the film of Waititi, expressed not in a joke. “Thor: Love and Thunder” - a story about the twilight of the gods, their sunset and end. No wonder the antagonist of this story Gorr proudly bears the nickname "The Murderer of the Gods." Before us is a hopeless universe, where omnipotent deities forgot about humanity and are now always feasting in their hall, preparing for the annual orgy, while people and children die neither for a penny.

A true luck is two new for the actor franchise, whose characters are associated with this story line. Gorr Christiana Bale is the pale -faced Pierrot of this comedy del arte (we will consider Dubolom Torah Arlekin), who always suffered and therefore killing those whom he appointed guilty in his torment. The bearded man Zeus Russell Crowe, to whom Thor with his comrades comes for help - the embodiment of selfish self -use; Such a suzeren would like to quickly wish to fold his head in some state coup.

Waititi shows the coordinate system in which real heroes have outlived themselves, masculinity fell in price, and the omnipotent entities that were set to control our fates, scored everything. This is a godless world that has turned into an amusement park. Hope remained only on love, the fragility and momentary of which is emphasized especially, and for the naivety of children, still ready to listen to fairy tales with dilming ears.

The storyteller is served by a Korg-Korg man, no coincidence played by the director himself. How not to recall that in his previous film “Rabbit Jojo” he was engaged in the same thing - in a comedic, children's, playing, almost fabulous form spoke of the most terrible, about fascism?

And in order to reduce the degree and dilute the pathos, in the fourth “Torah” there are many jokes and pieces that are well distracting attention. For example, the long -awaited phenomenon of the Torah, Tangnioster and Tangrisnir, familiar from the "senior Edd". And thank you that they just yell with bad voices, and do not grind their teeth, as the mythological canon prescribed. Perhaps Waititi left this detail for the next sequel.