WINTER SOLDIER'S weak 'critique' of the surveillance state is the same as most liberal Hollywood action movies: a few bad apples go rogue.
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Replying to @saladinahmed
WINTER SOLDIER's cheap fantasy: the horrible things our govt. is ACTUALLY DOING IN THE REAL WORLD are in fact the work of...SECRET NAZIS!
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Replying to @saladinahmed
@saladinahmed@arthur_affect That's why the solution isn't "wipe out the bad apples", but "It all comes down." Cap endorses anarchy in TWS.1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
Replying to @Joseph_OBrien
@Joseph_OBrien@saladinahmed Yeah TWS deserves praise for going much much further w this concept than most movies do2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect
@Joseph_OBrien@saladinahmed HYDRA isn't just a specific set of bad guys it's a rottenness at SHIELD's heart1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect
@arthur_affect@saladinahmed Exactly. SHIELD is presented not as infiltrated but fundamentally corrupted.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @Joseph_OBrien
@Joseph_OBrien@arthur_affect yes, because it was creation of foreign influence. SHIELD's international org corrupting the once-good US gov.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @saladinahmed
@saladinahmed@arthur_affect But the "foreign influence" is represented by Robert Redford.TWS' thesis is that SHIELD was *always* corrupt.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Joseph_OBrien
@saladinahmed@arthur_affect HYDRA's only "foreign" in terms of narrative continuity. In TWS it's very much an insidious internal force.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@Joseph_OBrien @saladinahmed Fury straight up asks Pierce when he was turned and Pierce says he never was, this was always the plan
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