Eternals': the director of 'Nomadland' signs the most unusual Marvel film, an epic marked by naturalistic beauty and pompous superheroes

 If I had to point out a single great virtue thanks to which the world of "pajamas" comics has managed to trap countless readers - including a server - in its networks throughout its long history, that would undoubtedly be its characters. An assortment of heroes and heroines that transcend their powers and superhuman natures to offer a reflection of the marginality, trauma and helplessness that often enclose the mundane alter-ego that hide behind capes, masks and masks.


It is this human aspect that invites us to get along instantly and makes us see ourselves projected in the Peter Parker, Bruce Banner, Hal Jordan or Barry Allen on duty; even in Thor or Superman whose conditions of God of Thunder and alien messianic savior take a backseat once one delves into much more earthly problems than one might expect .


Unfortunately, the 'Eternals' with which Marvel Studios has decided to continue its Phase 4 are on the other side of the coin, presenting the public with a kind of ancient deities with whose icy and condescending gaze on humanity is almost impossible to connect, and starring in the feature film with the most personality in the studio . Although this is not, necessarily, something positive, since it translates into more than two leaden and washed-out hours and a half that make what seemed impossible a reality: that a superhero movie, in addition to being boring, is tremendously pedantic.


Of gods and men


Those who know me or have read me will know that the drift of the Marvel Cinematic Universe once the Infinity Saga is concluded is not being, precisely, my devotion. The cathode productions have left me at half throttle and, in the cinematographic field, only 'Shang-Chi' has managed to dissipate minimally —and pure entertainment blow— the sensation of being before creations that have come out of a mass production factory; But if there's one thing to claim even about the less inspired titles, it's that they've never completely bored me — after all, the formula is over-calculated to prevent it.


Knowing this, I could say - not with little regret - that 'Eternals' was the first MCU film to make me feel uncomfortable in the theater seat . Much of the blame has been on a narrative with unexpected levels of chaos and density for a filmmaker of the stature of Chloé Zhao , whose leap from the independent scene to the big-budget blockbuster is marked by the tons of oral presentation with which it is intended. present, in almost 160 minutes, a mythology that is too vast and complex.



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