Ah, they’re obviously using some new meaning of the word empowered that I had not previously been aware of. Being imprisoned and forced to fight lest those they love be harmed is now “empowering.” Got it.
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Seeing as that ’empowered’ line comes from what is obviously a villain monologue, I wouldn’t necessarily take it as something the movie itself is endorsing – quite the opposite, in fact.
RogerBW
Fri, Oct 18, 2013 2:36pm
The concept is fair enough, if clichéd, but the execution will matter: does the frame linger lovingly over the violence and its aftermath?
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Seeing as that ’empowered’ line comes from what is obviously a villain monologue, I wouldn’t necessarily take it as something the movie itself is endorsing – quite the opposite, in fact.
The concept is fair enough, if clichéd, but the execution will matter: does the frame linger lovingly over the violence and its aftermath?
oh shit, audrey horne and abe sapien!