2017-06-11

746 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

SPOILER ALERT!! 
Please go back if you don't want to be informed on the storyline.

As one of the most successful creators of modern comic franchises, Marvel Studio seldom fails to meet our expectations. Looking at these overwhelming success among today's movie entertainment, thinking of Disney, Pixar, DC, Lucas Film etc., I feel these great creators are doing a marketing, in its perfect sense, not to meet our expectations but to lead us to what we want to see, establish our expectations and desire. Well It doesn't matter - when its experience is really uplifting and hilarious enough to make us purely happy, like the Guardians of the Galaxy series.

The series looks a lot like Star Wars saga and I don't think I can add something to that discussion out there but the Vol.2 is quite interesting, in the similar and different way of storytelling. In Episode 5 "The Empire Strikes Back", as everyone knows that Darth Vader tells that he is Luke Skywalker's father. Evil and merciless villain turns to be the real father of the hero. On the contrary in the Vol.2, the real father turns to be a villain. Both tragic. But the remedy is given in both story. Luke finally came to save his father by way of proving his mastered skill and mind and of believing his father. In Vol.2 Peter lost his real father but at the same time he learned he had been with his "real" father all the time, who actually was a loving father but being ambiguous and awkward. I think it very touching that both of them are wonderful in showing us the beauty of fatherliness.

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