Singing the praises of Cap: Winter Soldier

Man, I cannot shut up about Captain America:  Winter Soldier.  It is such a good movie.

I serenely grace the ears of anyone who will listen, anyone who either likes superhero movies or who likes politically, modern-day relevant movies to go watch it.

Man, Captain America got arrested.  Say that again.  Captain frekn America got arrested.  You know something's wrong when a beacon of hope, freedom, and patriotism is arrested in the same damn country that placed those mantles upon him.

Imagine my gradual realization that Cap would be considered a terrorist/dissident specifically because he didn't want to shoot and blow up random innocent citizens.  Cap is considered a terrorist because he is not okay with the government terrorizing people.

My foolhardy self did not even realize this next thing at first.  I had to stumble upon a brilliant epiphany from a freakin tumblr user, of all unexpected sources of inspiration.

If the subject of government bullying arises, you have to address the major subtopic of black Americans.  You cannot address government intrusion and bullying -- without discussing the massive subtopic of black people being brutalized, abused, and murdered by officers of the law.  Harshly and in disproportionately large numbers compared to all other demographics.

The internet denizen made some incredible, insightful observations.  He/she stated that towards the middle of the movie, there were indeed sufficient warning signs that Nick Fury was a target of the government and under imminent attack.  Unfortunately, the signs of impending government brutality looked exactly the same as the daily, routine, systemic racism to which Nick Fury is subject every single goddamn day of his life.

The rare tumblr hero also noted that the police did not hesitate to murder a black man out in broad daylight, in the middle of the day, on a very busy street.  Doesn’t matter that he didn't do anything wrong, did absolutely nothing to provoke the police brutality.  Which is another important point only slight off-topic.  No one, that is, absolutely no one, that is forced under police detainment has ever done anything to provoke being murdered.  A person fighting back, wanting to maintain bodily integrity, understandably terrified, is never asking to be murdered.

Nick Fury only escaped alive because he is Nick Fury.  The police did not give a 3h + that Nick Fury was also a government official and a good person.  He is a black man, he is the target, end him.

Whereas regarding Cap, ehh, at least the police sort of afforded him the dignity of not being fed several rounds of bullets out in the open public.  Frank Grillo saw the news chopper and told his underling, "not here."

Nick fury had a main-character-sized role in this movie, which was an excellent story decision.  In all the other avengers movies, nick fury is relegated to a side role or simply a cameo.  The "avengers assemble" was an ensemble cast, so nobody had a main role.

Another reason Cap would be considered a terrorist is that he destroyed government property.

Never mind the fact that the government property of interest is a destroyer ship, built and programmed to literally slaughter millions of innocent people and therefore Cap is 100% in the moral right.

Nope.  Simply the fact that Cap caused millions of dollars worth of property damage is enough to label him "terrorist."  The fact that Cap is a decent human being with a good heart and a sense of right and wrong, are what brandishes him now as "terrorist."

But that's where the government is at now.  For that matter, Sam Wilson, Black Widow, and the legendary Nick Fury would also be considered terrorists.

The movie incorporated brilliant parallels to a lot of legitimate-sounding conspiracy theories.

patriot act; 9/11 used as a convenient, catch-all excuse for the patriot act, TSA, department of homeland security.  in this day and age where there are all sorts of propaganda TV shows and movies, including the I-haven’t-watched-it-because-frankly-it-looks-embarrassing "Homeland," starring my-so-called-life.  CA:  Winter Soldier is a very much needed reversion to the propaganda entertainment drilled into people's heads every second of every day.  Brutal honesty.

This movie is round-aboutedly declaring that it is not a straightforward matter of government acting in its citizens' best interests and simply screwing up phenomenally. The govmet is not simply following its purported good judgment and proceeding with extreme caution for the citizens' own good.  It is not simply the government reacting to the current sociopolitical climate.

No-- the government is fomenting chaos, terror, violent crime ON PURPOSE.  False flags.  Spreading hate and unease and distrust among average ordinary people, so that govmet have an excuse to crack down on people's lives, freedom, family home, freedom to travel n move around.  To declare arbitrary notions "illegal" so that the govt can lock up harmless people.

A specific act that the movie focuses on is the government spying on, profiling, and targeting people.  And then will murder them if they oppose the government's vision.  Hydra with its helicarriers. 

Analogous to intercepting private people's private phone calls.  Tracing and reading private people's private emails.

Profiling people's facebook posts, blog posts, twitter tweets, editorials written in newspapers or news websites.  Scanning, carefully methodically scouring the collection of the written word.  Searching tirelessly for any seeds of dissidence against the government.  And then eliminating that person because, after all, the government is good.  Therefore, anyone who speaks out against the government is surely bad, and anyone that is bad against the United States government is a terrorist, right?

The movie specifically addresses the so-called "war on terror."  The US government claims it is "protecting you from the bad guys" by accusing you of being the bad guys.

illuminati Rothschilds Rockefellas bilderbergs NWO the puppet masters George Soros Federal Reserve 9/11
the deep state; corruption of democratic party n republicans

Chipping away at the dignity of human beings.  A prominent example being TSA at airports being allowed to conduct body/groping searches.

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The endings to each of their story arcs were very realistic. Cap waking up in a hospital bed, recovering.  With his friend by his side playing familiar comforting music.  Black Widow at the congressional hearing.  All of it extremely realistic, especially the hearing with federal congressional politicians feigning moral outrage.  indignation huffy and puffy towards the avengers' so so grievous, egregious actions, they would dare to take action against a scheming, beyond-corrupt, abusive, lazy, useless government.

About Nick Fury torching his belongings, holding a fake funeral with a real gravesite, and having to go into hiding.  I’m not sure how realistic that is, per se; in the sense that it’s not an everyday occurrence.  But I have never before seen a “superhero” movie present us a resolution so grounded in the physical world we inhabit.  And none so genuinely badass.

Captain America: Winter Soldier is the best superhero movie, period

This is so cool.  This is crazy and brilliant and fascinating:  Captain America is a libertarian.  (Hopefully the nice and moral kind, aka Christian libertarian.)

Which was a brilliant decision by the writers, producers, story editors, etc., whoever else is involved with making the plot.  Because seriously, as I have said before, a superhero named "Captain America" in this day and age is a macabre, tasteless, mirthless joke.

The movie is about so much more than just these asinine avengers, etc.  It is a mirror reflection of precisely what is going on in this dear country.  This land, once the land of opportunity, once the land of the free and home of the brave, has now deteriorated into a heap of huddled, haggard ragamuffins too deathly afraid to stand up to the IRS, to the government, or to other corporations.

I also thought it quite refreshing, calming, and progressive that, of the four main characters, two of them were black.

You must see this movie.  If you do not like the scenes of extreme violence, which is completely understandable, you can just fast-forward past them.  Haha, "fast-forward," I am such a child of the 80s.  Most kids under age 20 would be like, "fast forward?  What's that?"  Sorry, I'm just a little excited because I have not seen a movie this good and this relevant to current events in a long time.

It's not just a matter of corrupt government.  It is not a matter of crooked police, crooked local politicians, local mayors taking handouts, cash bribes [[kickbacks]]] from convicted criminals so that the criminal can go free.  It is not just a matter of police confiscating street drugs and then turning around and selling the street drugs themselves, thereby ingratiating themselves into the crime syndicate.  It is not a simple matter of corruption on a local, county-wide, state, or federal level.

No.  What has happened now is that they have created a whole entire agency that has the express purpose of spying on average citizens.  Its sole purpose is to sneak, insinuate, and ingratiate itself, into every facet of daily life to spy on, terrorize and restrict the movement of honest people.  And it says it is doing this for the honest people's own good.

This is a matter of the government doing what it thinks it is supposed to be doing.  This is a matter of the government thinking it is doing right for its citizens.  the government thinks it is protecting citizens and keeping them safe -- by imprisoning and kidnapping them before they have committed any crime, by imprisoning them in their homes, by imprisoning them in many ways preventing them from having normal decent happy family lives.

Be honest.  The corrupt cops and political branches doing bad -- they know they are doing bad.  They know they are corrupt and screwed.  They don't harbor any fantasies of doing what it takes to be in way of the greater good.  They just don't care anymore.

I noticed that the movie didn't really have one specific villain.  was it this guy?  bucky winter.  ehh, no.  we find out in the movie that Bucky is not the mastermind behind any of it.  in fact, it is readily apparent that Bucky has been tortured n essentially dehumanized during his entire stint as the "winter soldier."  ehh,, was it this guy?  Robert Redford.  Erm, I guess he is supposed to be the high-up CEO of the evil government agency.  but to be honest, Robert Redford's villain does not really have a leering, looming, domineering, threatening, truly villainous screen presence.  or maybe this guy?  frank grillo.  or these pieces-of-human-garbage cops?  Nah.  I suppose I'm comparing all villains to the gold standard that was set by heath ledger's joker.

None of them individually were the one true criminal mastermind behind the government agenda of holding a gun to every person's head and calling it "security."  They were all equally culpable and villainous.

This was precisely the point of the movie.  The movie's whole message is that no one given person is solely responsible for causing chaos and terror.  The entire system, the entire establishment is corrupt, rotten, crooked, compromised beyond all repair.

See, the heath ledger movie was about philosophy.  Our evil human natures, our primitive selfish motives, get people destitute and desperate enough and they will revert to their primitive violent natures, blah blah blah.  That can be easily enough embodied in one specific character.

This movie, however, is not about abstract philosophy.  This movie is trying to send a realistic, very urgent message to its viewers.  This movie is about current events happening in real time, transpiring as we speak.

It would make things so much easier to be able to pinpoint one specific culprit as the root of all evil.  And then in the words of Andrew Jackson, "rout [that one person] out," get rid of the evil influence, and then things could go back to being hunky-dory and happy.  but there is no one specific bad guy.  The government having grown to what it is today is a massive, colossal stupid unwitting cooperation of many subbranches numbering in the triple digits.  On local, county, state, and federal levels.

A major plot point that many others have pointed out.  The other avengers didn't show up in this movie. 

This was not a coincidence nor was it an oversight; I think there was a very good reason for this.  I think the point was to convey the feeling of being utterly alone when going up against a monstrosity goliath like the bloated, groaning, heaving US government.  the feeling of being made to feel isolated... with no one on your side, no one to turn to for comfort, for support, for aid.

The government does this on purpose to people.  For instance, imagine that an acquaintance of yours has received a letter from the irs or from the state council accusing them of something nefarious.  They owe back taxes.  Or they are being fined a hefty amount for some grievance.  Alternatively, imagine that your acquaintance's credit history is so bad that they are unable to qualify for an apartment lease.

Do you feel sympathy for that friend?  Do you feel that you should be there for them to offer a sympathetic ear or shoulder to cry on?  Or do you feel kind of uneasy being around this person now?  Perhaps you feel morally that it is no longer a good idea to be associated with this person?  It's kinda skewed now, isn't it?  Like this friend is now revealed to be a dishonest person.  You durn tax evader, you criminal, you non-patriotic troublemaker, you shirker of your responsibilities, you neglecter of your civic duty, you neglecter of credit.  And then do you choose to distance yourself from that friend.

Think of how the friend feels.  He or she is still the same decent, honest human being.  But now they feel targeted by a monstrous looming evil kraken that they cannot hope to fight evenly, such as reasonable I court.  They probably feel isolated, cold, unloved.  They know that they have now in the eyes of their friends, such as you, become a social pariah.

This is the exact feeling that the writers and producers of this movie wanted to convey to the audience.

I sing this movie's praises to anyone within a twenty-feet radius of myself.  Extoll the virtues (that's from go fug yourself re:  sandwiches; it is equally applicable here) to anyone that is interested in government abuse but wants to be entertained at the same time.

relevant memes:  what I expected:
fun avengers
superman

what I got:
9/11 false flag
edward snowden/nsa
when did this (friendly neighborhood police) become this (militarized local police)
fake police-do-gooder news articles 1984
arbitrary imprisonment without due processsssss
america bombing syria, america forcing into sovereign countries
federal reserve/irs