Context Makes Devils

I've been watching the first season of Daredevil again lately, from 2015. It sure holds up, particularly since this is the kind of story Marvel desperately needs to be telling now. No postmodernism, no mulling over civil rights issues from the '60s. Instead, the hero is pitted against Wilson Fisk, a man whose power was primarily in his finances and his control of the buildings in New York where people lived. I've heard he was even partly modelled on Donald Trump. The show's still a fantasy, but at least it's dealing with issues that are actually critical to people to-day; the effects of a shitty economy and the powerful people who keep the corrosive status quo. Andor did this, too, taking the story away from literary theories and showing how economic and political oppression actually effected people's daily lives.

One criticism I've heard about the Democrats is that they've become too attached to white collar votes and have thereby lost the working class. That's painfully clear. Hollywood is obviously part of the Left's apparatus, inconveniently popular new Clint Eastwood movies notwithstanding. If they were wise, they'd be focusing more on things like Daredevil and Andor, showing exactly how someone like Trump negatively impacts their lives. There was a rumour the new Spider-Man movie would feature Wilson Fisk and Daredevil but that Sony wanted it to be about Venom. After the success of the recent Venom film, I'm afraid Sony might get their way, but a Spider-Man versus Wilson Fisk movie would be so very much the story we need right now. If done properly, of course.

Daredevil is available on Disney+, despite Netflix being written all over the above trailer. It's from nine years ago when Daredevil was on Netflix. It's weird Netflix doesn't take down those videos. They're basically hosting commercials for their competition.

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With short'ning bread, the mother ship was taxed.
Arrays of sensors marked the spacial rant.
The Klingon vessel's shields were set to max.
A pace behind the Devil walks a crab.
In silent shades, the picture turned to fall.
A brittle leaf directs the villain's stab.
The dragon's blood ordained the hero's fall.
A fighting dog replaced a singing cat.
In ev'ry tree, the birds were making eggs.
The squirrel's dreams could squash a soulless gnat.
A swarm of bugs retains a million legs.
Coyotes yip and howl on phantom phones.
Conversing wolves and dogs agree to bones.