Captain Marvel: Just A Girl
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I have not yet read any review of Captain Marvel that seemed to like the placement of No Doubt's "Just a Girl" over the fight scene.
I really liked it.
Here's why.
1. I don't buy that Carol would only/best love the rock songs of the 80s that she last heard. We know she loves rock. We see her singing karaoke and enjoying it. But unless a specific song triggers a specific memory, well, Carol just doesn't remember the 80s very much. Her head is scrambled.
2. She DOES INDEED love a good, loud, angry, high-energy rock number. And "Just a Girl" is that. So why not have that be her fight song?
3. But, more to the point, the song is NOT diagetic. It's not playing in the spaceship. So who cares.
4. But, I care. I like it. I like it because that song is so fucking angry. It has been a furiously angry song since it was released. It is a promise and a threat that the devalued and disregarded will rise. The the ignored and inconsequential will have their fucking day. That every chicken is on its way home to roost.
"Just a Girl" is the anthem of every woman told to sit down, be quiet, be careful, be afraid. It's the anthem of all the women who have been told that, sung at the moment those women have had efuckingnough.
And it's a joyous anger. It's smiling, grinning rage.
"Don't you think I know exactly where I stand /
This world is forcing me to hold your hand"
Carol Danvers knows that feeling. She knows the shackling of expectations placed upon her for her own protection. She knows the gaslighting deceit of her own good. She knows, finally, at last, that she doesn't need anyone's protection. That she is stronger than all her benevolent oppressors.
Carol is done being afraid of everything she has been told to fear.
I have not yet read any review of Captain Marvel that seemed to like the placement of No Doubt's "Just a Girl" over the fight scene.
I really liked it.
Here's why.
1. I don't buy that Carol would only/best love the rock songs of the 80s that she last heard. We know she loves rock. We see her singing karaoke and enjoying it. But unless a specific song triggers a specific memory, well, Carol just doesn't remember the 80s very much. Her head is scrambled.
2. She DOES INDEED love a good, loud, angry, high-energy rock number. And "Just a Girl" is that. So why not have that be her fight song?
3. But, more to the point, the song is NOT diagetic. It's not playing in the spaceship. So who cares.
4. But, I care. I like it. I like it because that song is so fucking angry. It has been a furiously angry song since it was released. It is a promise and a threat that the devalued and disregarded will rise. The the ignored and inconsequential will have their fucking day. That every chicken is on its way home to roost.
"Just a Girl" is the anthem of every woman told to sit down, be quiet, be careful, be afraid. It's the anthem of all the women who have been told that, sung at the moment those women have had efuckingnough.
And it's a joyous anger. It's smiling, grinning rage.
"Don't you think I know exactly where I stand /
This world is forcing me to hold your hand"
Carol Danvers knows that feeling. She knows the shackling of expectations placed upon her for her own protection. She knows the gaslighting deceit of her own good. She knows, finally, at last, that she doesn't need anyone's protection. That she is stronger than all her benevolent oppressors.
Carol is done being afraid of everything she has been told to fear.
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Date: 2019-04-29 07:42 pm (UTC)