Say yes to the dress

Captain Marvel (d. Biden & Fleck)

She’s the most powerful woman, according to her black woman friend. She’s like white feminism, powerful but not clear about the past, the history of feminism itself and the role WOCs and queers of color who also took part in feminist activism and critique. There’s a nice twist when the militant heroine realizes that they’ve been playing on the wrong side of history except that this awareness is not extended to humans, only the heavily CG’d creatures. If she were to side with the oppressed and the refugees, she wouldn’t be working for an imperialist government agency. But her brand of feminism is fine with that. She simply changes the color of her costume, and voila!, she’s the latest palatable faux-feminism for mass consumption. The film also mimics Hole’s Courtney Love’s career trajectory, where it’s a 90s Hole song that closes the movie when the band was its height, from scrappy grungy princess to Hollywood starlet to a B, C, or D celebrity fixture who thinks she’s an A.

#2019 #104