I’ve made this video to discuss a specific aspect of these two movies.
“Avengers: Infinity War” (2018) and “Wonder Woman” (2017) are both impressive works, very well made in every aspect, script, acting, photography, effects, montage, sound…
The super villains, respectively Thanos and Ares, carry a point of view which is nowadays being attributed to part of the so called “elite”: the alleged necessity to depopulate.
On this crucial point, on the precise motivations supporting such will, our heroes do not debate much. They affirm principles and fight back.
Wonder Woman fighting Ares
Wonder Woman’s words of praise for humanity during her final battle with Ares, “They’re everything you say, but so much more”, refer to our capacity to love and sacrifice even our own lives for love or for a just cause, of which she has just been given proof. “They do not deserve your protection!” Ares says. She answers: “It’s not about deserve. It’s about what you believe. And I believe in love.”, which is of no interest to Ares.
Wonder Woman listening to Ares proposing that she helps him exterminate mankind
He complains that humans are “filled with hatred”, but minutes before he was telling her how he instigates them and creates situations of instability which he knows would produce war. Ares, supposedly a superior being, is really not helping humans by showing them a superior way of life, a path to virtue, peace and respect for each other and the planet, because he’s also filled with hatred for humans, just as humans for humans according to his complain.
Diana’s sorrow
Gamora’s words to Thanos, “You kill and torture… and you call it mercy”, seem to be also motivated by empathy and by a moral compass, just like Dr Strange’s answer when Thanos defines himself “a survivor”: “Who wants to murder trillions”.
Thanos presents genocide as a regrettable necessity
Only Bruce Banner mentions the voracious side of Thanos when he describes him as “… a plague… He invades planets. He takes what he wants. He wipes out half the population.” but he only does so while explaining the situation to Tony Stark… whose scientific genius, as we know from the “Iron Man” movies, is alas focused on weapons, not in finding solutions to reduce the impact on the planet of our activities and needs. He belongs to the military industrial complex, of which he is the elite of the elite.
Thanos snapping his fingers
Nobody really challenges Thanos and Ares directly on motivations such as “finite resources” and “we could return this world to the paradise it was before them”.
This video presents a few simple reactions to those motivations of the will to depopulate…
…and criticizes certain “elite” to which such will is being attributed (alas it’s very clear by now that conspiracy theories are not necessarily false).
Thanks for watching!
If you like this video, please recommend it to your friends, if you didn’t, please recommend it to your enemies.
DISCLAIMER: of course many cuts (applied to reduce usage of the movies footage while keeping this video short) have not been made by the movie editors themselves and the final result does not represent their skill (especially: Bruce Banner relating to Tony Stark, Thanos attacking the Zehobereians, and the dialogue and flashback while Wonder Woman fights Ares). Editing an already edited sequence, through an already mixed down soundtrack, can be problematic.
You are encouraged to also check out the following links…
- How Billionaires Become Billionaires | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization
https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-billionaires-become-billionaires/5612125 - Electronic vote in the US is a scam, citizens are asked to trust proprietary undisclosed firmware, which is simply not verifiable, period. Here’s a demonstration of election fraud.
https://www.facebook.com/protectingtheusa/videos/1010687715710566/ - “All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars”, must watch!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfEBupAeo4&feature=share - “How The Military Controls America”
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2018/march/26/how-the-military-controls-america/ - “Pentagon report points to US preparations for total war”
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/11/tota-o11.html
“[…] The central target of such measures will be the forcible suppression of the class struggle in the name of promoting “national security.” The escalation of global US militarism has coincided with a major upsurge in the class struggle, […]” - Some relief to our planet, and especially to our oceans, could come from this invention: plastic made out of bananas by college students, it is 5 times more resistant than normal plastics but it biodegrades in 18 months instead of 20-1000 years.
https://thecostaricanews.com/university-students-made-biodegradable-plastic-bags-bananas/ - I have a link to a video with one of the Kennedys talking about solar energy cheaper than oil, and about the oil lobby wanting their dangerous pipes all over the planet to keep us tied to fossil fuels. That video was shared on social networks during the beginning of the violent repression of the NODAPL protest, but alas the link is broken at present. Instead, I’m offering the results of a DuckDuckGo search, so the search will be issued whenever you click on the link and give updated results.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=solar+energy+cheaper+than+oil&t=canonical&ia=web
… and this novel, possibly explaining why the like in real world of Tony Stark, Thanos and Ares do not focus on peace instead of war:
- “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, often published as “1984”, by George Orwell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
(Too) short quote from the great novel, or more precisely from a book the protagonist is reading in chapter IX:
“[…] For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance. […] Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare. […]”
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If you were not worried about this post, you should consider what follows:
Read more in my following Steemit post and get worried.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jvchamary/2018/04/30/avengers-infinity-war-overpopulation/
Alas, DTube "forgot" my hardly-worked video and subtitles files, I restored it, and it "forgot" it again right when I had a tech problem and made a double mistake with backups. Once operative again, I was about to download it from the DTube ipfs gateway and put it on Vimeo, but it was too late, that video is gone. I think I'll rather open an account on Diaspora and use Vimeo to store videos, next time.