Greetings true friends, today I want to elaborate upon the film Aquaman because I actually saw that a few weeks back.
And the reason I saw it, the reason I saw a thing spawned out of Hollywood is that I need to stay updated upon these things, because we are after all in the middle of a rather intense culture war, so it's good to stay updated and to dissect these sort of things.
So and also a little warning to everyone, once you start thinking about this type of themes in films, it can be hard to ignore them.
So you might have been able to enjoy Hollywood movies before because you don't actively think about certain reoccurring themes, but when you actively start thinking about them, yeah, it will detract some of the quality and you will start appreciating Hollywood movies less.
But anyway, on to the film itself.
I thought it was a great film.
I might see it again at some stage.
But there were quite a few instances of Hollywood cancer and the usual Hollywood cancer.
So first and foremost we have his parentage which is then a queen looks like this and his father is a non-noble and someone who is from the land so it looks like this.
Good actor otherwise which I like but I did not approve of this union between these two and it's obviously a tale of the queen is running away from the oppressive patriarchy in her home civilization in Atlantis and falls in love with this man from outside of her tribe.
So not particularly glorious at all and this is also something that comes into my next point because you have two guys Aquaman himself which I also like as an actor and everything like that.
It's Carl Drogo and he's very charismatic and cool in the film as well.
You know a jacked barbarian going around being epic.
But he doesn't represent Mili of course but he represents something else and that is the other the other who has a perspective that the other prince do not have.
So if you look upon these two half-brothers the white guy the guy who looks like an elf sort of he is for some reason a bit mean however I will say in the defense of the film that he does raise some very good points in terms of environmentalism because he says quite accurately that you know the people on the surface they're polluting our oceans and killing our friends which is the whales etc.
So he does bring up some cool points and he isn't ultra evil leader.
It's just that he is not.
You're supposed to root for Aquaman instead because obviously he's the main character.
But the point here is that a note on leadership you have two guys, two brothers, one who, in his defense, he says he doesn't want leadership, he doesn't want command or anything like that, and the other guy, his younger half brother.
He's basically groomed since birth to become a prince, to become a ruler.
He is trained since he was but a very young boy to become a king.
But in the film then it tells that just because Aquaman has this unique perspective because of his birth, because of his birth from a queen of the sea and a common man of the land, he has this unique perspective that allows him to be better, just naturally better than the guy, his half-brother prince, who's trained his entire life to be a certain role.
And this is something very dangerous, this kind of thinking, because it's, first and foremost, simply not true.
Leadership is not something you're born with.
Sure, you can be born with leadership qualities such as such as you know charisma, energy and everything like that, but when it comes to the more advanced aspects of leadership.
It takes far more than that.
You need to be very organized, you need to have a lot of training in these sort of things and you need to be from a somewhat early age, you need to be grow in to that role.
So it's quite unnatural that the guy, just because he has a different perspective, he has a unique perspective because he is mixed.
Therefore he has a better understanding of how to rule.
And this is something a theme that you might see in today's political discourse as well, when you see leftists saying, oh, we should let in America, for example, we should let these Hispanic women rule because they have a unique perspective.
And the white straight male?
He has a bad perspective because of who he is.
And it doesn't matter then that the white straight male has trained his entire life to be responsible and in a leadership position, it's all for nothing because he doesn't have this unique perspective.
And it's also the matter of letting an outsider rule over, in this case, Atlantis.
So Aquaman comes in as a semi-outsider into Atlantis to rule, whereas his half-brother has been there his entire life.
So it's quite obvious that he is more suited to rule, and then also it's I won't spoil anything now because it's so obvious from the start.
But the girl chooses Aquaman over his brother for whatever reason.
I don't know why, but that was also one of these points I thought was a bit silly and Hollywood cancerous, but anyway, great film, a lot of Hollywood cancer.
The Most cancerous thing I thought was that you know leadership difference between someone who's just born with a different perspective versus someone who's actually trained for it his entire life.
I'm sure you also, if you've seen it, you thought of more blasphemous things, but I thought to mention that and yeah, I just wanted to share those thoughts with you.
But then again, like in terms of the film, great scenes, great aesthetics, some good points in regards to environmentalism, etc.
