Captain Marvel

Dave Taylor

Even casual Marvel Cinematic Universe fans remember how the latest Avengers movie ended.Thanos snapped his fingers, something not so good happened and all looked quite dire（極糟的）.Until a 1990's era pager （傳呼機(jī)）from Nick Fury (Samuel L.Jackson)connected with a mysterious hero called Captain Marvel who,we hope,can save the day.Zoom forward and we finally get to meet the mysterious Captain in the new film Captain Marvel.

Opening with a bang,we meet Vers(Brie Larson)on an alien world.She's a Kree fighter,still in training with her mentor Yon-Rogg(Jude Law).She has speed and power,but no memories of her childhood and is constantly challenged by the need to rein in her emotions during battle.The Kree are controlled by a central AI known as the Supreme Intelligence,who,like the Boggarts in Harry Potter,takes on the appearance of the most feared person in someone's life.With Vers,however,that person is personified by Annette Bening.

The hated Skrull,galactic（銀河的）enemies of the Kree,are spotted heading to the Earth,so Vers is sent along with Yon-Rogg and some other Kree warriors to find and kill them. But heading to the Earth circa-1995 brings back lots of fragmentary （片段的）memories and soon Vers realizes that she's actually Carol Danvers and is from the Earth.As the story unfolds,we learn about her backstory as she does,a typical“hero's journey”we've seen dozens of times on screen.

Things aren't as they may seem,however,loyalties are tested as Danvers meets up with Nick Fury and Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg)of S.H.I.E.L.D.She also reconnects with her Earth BFF Maria Rambeau(Lashana Lynch)and Maria's cute-as-a-button daughter Monica(Akira Akbar),who is 11 years old.

When the Kree versus Skrull war comes to the Earth in the person of Talos (Ben Mendelsohn), the leader of the Earth invasion force from Skrull,all chaos breaks out.The Skrull are shape-shifters,able to take on the exact identity of anyone they meet,down to identical DNA.This leads to a fantastic train chase and fight sequence that spotlights LA rapid transit in a rather,well,aggressive manner.

Captain Marvel turns out to be imbued（使充滿）with great powers,so great that she is basically unstoppable when in a full rage （狂怒）.Clearly,she's the solution to be called in whenever there's an otherwise overwhelming crisis.

Critical Thinking

Can you narrate the plot of the film Captain Marvel?Do you like it?Why?