Big action by little people

Rosalinda 2022-03-22 09:02:25

When I just watched the film, I thought it was a superhero movie adapted from a comic, but the procrastination in the middle made me drowsy, and a warm feeling slowly grabbed my heart after seeing it, until the end. That kind of sadness and emotion became the feeling that the whole film brought me.
Arthur's IQ is not high, but the "captain industry", a virtual enemy woven by misunderstandings and the grief of losing his mother, made him spend his life pursuing it, until he gave his life for it. Everything he did was so powerless, yet so persistent and brave.
This film reminds me of "Forrest Gump". Whenever I encounter such a protagonist who walks on firmly for a simple and unreachable goal in his own world, I can't control my emotions. A high evaluation of this film is not for anything else, but for that touch.


Besides, the literal translation of "captain of industry" is not the meaning of "gang boss" in the second-rate subtitles, but the meaning of the head of a big business. In the movie, in the words that the old man told him when Arthur was a child, it should be It is understood as "the society of industrial civilization", and the whole sentence continues to mean: the murderer of his mother is not only a drug, but a drug dealer, a social system that promotes the proliferation of drugs.
After watching the film and thinking deeply, what this little guy challenges is also the sick side of this society, and he himself is also a victim of the dark side of this society.

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  • Kimberly 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    In the end I was in tears, goodbye, good man

  • Summer 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    101 minute version. Defendor, superhero Super, Kickass anti-hero of Kickass small people story. This Defendor is purely a "tough guy" of Canada's enhanced version of paranoia, with better equipment, but less capable of hand-to-hand combat and cold-weapon fighting. Faith or wasps or glass beads won't keep you alive either.

Defendor quotes

  • Kat: Oink, oink, motherfucker.

  • [first lines]

    Dr. Park: Arthur? Arthur.

    Arthur Poppington: Yeah.

    Dr. Park: Are you thinking about the question?

    Arthur Poppington: Mmm... Are you Japanese?

    Dr. Park: No.

    Arthur Poppington: Mieko Tatsuri is Japanese.

    Dr. Park: Oh. Who is Mieko Tatsuri?

    Arthur Poppington: Mmm... She's the leader of Blowback. Her father is a ninja and her mother is an alien from the gamma sector.

    Dr. Park: Okay well, I'm Korean from Earth.