I... am so jealous of how eloquent you are... even your rants are well-thought and legible. ::envy:: Anywho, yes. This is why I never listen to critics. You already know my feelings about blaming the media for personal actions, so I won't talk about that. You're completely right about having a kick-ass girl on screen (kinda sad she has to be completely prepubescent for it to happen... but baby-steps, baby steps). Inching nervously away from the "girl power!" aspect of it though, I think I'd like to say I love her because she's so badass and continues to be badass throughout the movie. I hate when a girl always ends up wanting to back out or becomes weak or has second thoughts. I hate when anyone does that. Missions of revenge don't work that way. Granted, some girls and guys on psychopathic killing sprees of hatred may fall in love and decide that this new love is more important than revenge, or sacrifice themselves when they are so very close... Every hero has a weakness and they're only human (usually). Even when Hit Girl's first push is taken from her, she never once questions, never loses her motivation. I LOVE it. In the end it is she who galvanizes David into action, not the other way around; it is he who wants to quit, he who wants to give up because he finally has something to live for ("eh", to sex as a motivator, but ok). I keep thinking of her like Batman, who no matter what series or comic we're talking about, always manages to come up with determination, cajoling, often silently, another person (or persons) into action, simply by leading. Since I LOVE Batman and Robin!, this is probably one of the best compliments she could get from me as a character.
As for comments that she's flawed as a hero because she was brain-washed into it... semantics! You say brainwashed, I say highly trained to fight and defend in a heightened state of freedom. I wish I'd learned fighting styles when I was young. In any case, it's not as though the father is doing it for the purpose of hurting innocents (and isn't all forms of socialization and parenting forms of brainwashing? It just depends on who puts what ideas into little heads. Two children with the same exact upbringing will still end up two totally different people). So she's not "normal". Bleh. Normal is overrated anyway. Look what normal did - it precipitated a whole city of cowards and one, read ONE, naive boy who got fed up and thought he could make a difference when no one else was willing to. It wasn't for glory (he didn't tell any of his friends) and it wasn't to get the girl (that was a happy little side-effect). He got his ass kicked, should have died, but he did what he thought was right and asked for nothing in return. Hit girl did the same and she lost something; she made a sacrifice for her way of life. That is what makes a hero. That is what we're missing in life.
::sigh:: so much for keeping it simple and quick this time...
PS: I am a girl. Or, I was a girl. (I still have a hard time thinking of myself as a woman.) Me too! It's so weird, isn't it? I guess it doesn't help when you don't look it/aren't treated like it either. I don't ever want to grow up. ^-^ ::cue Toys'R'Us theme song:: Unfortunately it seems to be indicative of our generation as most of us tend to both feel and be immature... but anyway.
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Anywho, yes. This is why I never listen to critics.
You already know my feelings about blaming the media for personal actions, so I won't talk about that. You're completely right about having a kick-ass girl on screen (kinda sad she has to be completely prepubescent for it to happen... but baby-steps, baby steps). Inching nervously away from the "girl power!" aspect of it though, I think I'd like to say I love her because she's so badass and continues to be badass throughout the movie. I hate when a girl always ends up wanting to back out or becomes weak or has second thoughts. I hate when anyone does that. Missions of revenge don't work that way. Granted, some girls and guys on psychopathic killing sprees of hatred may fall in love and decide that this new love is more important than revenge, or sacrifice themselves when they are so very close... Every hero has a weakness and they're only human (usually). Even when Hit Girl's first push is taken from her, she never once questions, never loses her motivation. I LOVE it.
In the end it is she who galvanizes David into action, not the other way around; it is he who wants to quit, he who wants to give up because he finally has something to live for ("eh", to sex as a motivator, but ok). I keep thinking of her like Batman, who no matter what series or comic we're talking about, always manages to come up with determination, cajoling, often silently, another person (or persons) into action, simply by leading. Since I LOVE Batman
and Robin!, this is probably one of the best compliments she could get from me as a character.As for comments that she's flawed as a hero because she was brain-washed into it... semantics! You say brainwashed, I say highly trained to fight and defend in a heightened state of freedom. I wish I'd learned fighting styles when I was young. In any case, it's not as though the father is doing it for the purpose of hurting innocents (and isn't all forms of socialization and parenting forms of brainwashing? It just depends on who puts what ideas into little heads. Two children with the same exact upbringing will still end up two totally different people). So she's not "normal". Bleh. Normal is overrated anyway. Look what normal did - it precipitated a whole city of cowards and one, read ONE, naive boy who got fed up and thought he could make a difference when no one else was willing to. It wasn't for glory (he didn't tell any of his friends) and it wasn't to get the girl (that was a happy little side-effect). He got his ass kicked, should have died, but he did what he thought was right and asked for nothing in return. Hit girl did the same and she lost something; she made a sacrifice for her way of life. That is what makes a hero. That is what we're missing in life.
::sigh:: so much for keeping it simple and quick this time...
PS: I am a girl. Or, I was a girl. (I still have a hard time thinking of myself as a woman.)
Me too! It's so weird, isn't it? I guess it doesn't help when you don't look it/aren't treated like it either. I don't ever want to grow up. ^-^ ::cue Toys'R'Us theme song::
Unfortunately it seems to be indicative of our generation as most of us tend to both feel and be immature... but anyway.