This week on Chronversations: A conversation with junior reporter, Uriel Reyes, about the newest Thunderbolts film.
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0:08: Welcome back to The Chronicle Chronversations.
0:10: I’m your host, Aaron Guzman.
0:13: This week on Conversations, junior reporter Uriel Reyes takes us through his review of the newest Marvel film Thunderbolts*.
0:22: Thunderbolts* is the newest entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
0:26: Unlike the other MCU films, Thunderbolts focuses on internal conflict within many of the characters and raises awareness for mental health.
0:35: I had the expectation that it was gonna be by the formula, like your typical action kaboom, maybe 5 seconds, you know, cringy quip and everything.
0:44: I am very happy to say that I love the movie, like, especially how they decided to tackle the antagonist in this one instead of instead of going kaboom, it was more like mental, more emotional.
0:54: It’s just like we’re used to the superhero movies going explosions just to solve the conflict.
0:58: This one was more like personal or more intimate, like more mental like levels of resolution.
1:04: It just that change and conflict resolution.
1:06: That’s what really like hit the nail for me.
1:08: That made me feel like, OK, yeah, this is a good movie right here.
1:12: Just some conflicts is that whole idea of like finding a new purpose after, after the closure of something like, for example, Red Guardian.
1:21: As many people who’ve seen the movies are familiar with the character, he lives in the past because that was his glory era.
1:27: Even though, I mean, yeah, it was a nice glory era and everything.
1:30: It’s just like that whole idea of like he needed to find a new purpose which he struggled with after everything or going back to Yelena, it’s it’s the same thing where after losing her sister, it’s like what is the purpose to to even do anything.
1:43: And as well as the whole going into the, the aspect for the antagonist, Sentry, having to deal with all of the traumas and everything.
1:50: It’s like, even though we all have our types of traumas, do we let these traumas continue to take control of our lives?
1:57: Or do we find a way to like finally let go and move on and be free?
2:00: Cause you don’t realize how much your traumas restrict you until things bad.
2:05: There’s sequences where it dives into each character’s traumas, whether it was the Red Guardian missing his glory era or John Walker having to deal with no longer having custody of his kid, or just going back to Sentry.
2:16: It’s just like the whole thing, having to have like a rough childhood and everything like it creates this level of like intimacy that really connects to the audience and connected with me.
2:27: This is like one of the best Marvel movies I’ve seen in quite a while.
2:30: I mean, there’s been a few more movies here and there, but just this one in particular, this one is really special.
2:36: And it just sticks with me and I know it’s a good movie when I actually want to see it again and that’s all that’s how I’m feeling right now.
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3:08: I’m Aaron Guzman.
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