{"id":40097,"date":"2021-07-09T15:29:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T19:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/?p=40097"},"modified":"2021-07-09T15:29:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T19:29:13","slug":"black-widow-sister-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/2021\/07\/09\/black-widow-sister-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Widow—- Sister Act!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marvel Studios\u2019 Black Widow | New Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fp9pNPdNwjI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What happens to a young girl who thinks she has a normal family including a younger sister, and the whole thing turns out to be a deep fake, so the parents can act as spies for a foreign government.\u00a0 Then, what happens when one of these \u2018sisters\u2019 joins the Avengers and they sort of become her new family.\u00a0 The story of Natasha (very ably played by Scarlet Johansson)\u00a0 the super hero who left the dark side for the Avengers is an interesting tale.\u00a0 And as seems to be generally true, Marvel is better at telling origins stories than endgame stories.\u00a0 Like the story about Tony Stark or Dr. Strange, this story holds together taking us from 1995 when Natasha is a young girl in Ohio to the present, where she is a crime fighter extraordinaire.\u00a0 And trust me, the bad guy in this movie is really really bad. He even gives Thanos a run for his money.<\/p>\n<p>The most effective and affecting parts of this movie have to do with the family story. But there is a strong philosophical thread woven throughout.\u00a0 Could some kind of surgery or drug take away a person\u2019s free will and self-determination and make them do the bidding of some wicked mastermind?\u00a0 Apparently, the answer is yes\u2026. but wait there may be an antidote to said condition.\u00a0 You\u2019ll have to see the movie to find out the answer.<\/p>\n<p>Like most good Marvel movies there are excellent action scenes and chase scenes (the one\u2019s in Budapest are especially well done).\u00a0 But these scenes are so BIG they threaten to bury the lead story about the Widow, and as it happens, other widows as well.\u00a0 This movie also doesn\u2019t really have the snarky humor of many of the earlier Marvel movies, and so it maintains it\u2019s serious tone throughout, right to the end, which is not really an end but a \u2018too be continued\u2019\u2026.\u00a0 The movie runs for 2 hours and a bit, and interestingly it is the slow or downtime scenes that are the most effective in terms of the acting.\u00a0 I would not call this the best Marvel movie of all, but it is pretty darn good, and for this summer that makes it better than the competition out there including FF9.\u00a0 \u00a0As it turns out girls don\u2019t just want to have fun, they also want to have family and purpose in life as well, and yes, they can be heroes.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens to a young girl who thinks she has a normal family including a younger sister, and the whole thing turns out to be a deep fake, so the parents can act as spies for a foreign government.\u00a0 Then, what happens when one of these \u2018sisters\u2019 joins the Avengers and they sort of become 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