Finished watching Captain Marvel. This one was good due to the twist, whereby the villains become the good guys, loved it! And the woman is more powerful and the glorification of the African American woman pilot and the African American Shield agent, both cool. The only jarring note is how when someone falls out of space he or she falls into America, though a shit hole, and has to speak American English.
It was also good to see how Captain Marvel is a hero as she gets up every time she falls and also how the energy core enters her from outside to then make her hundredfold more powerful. Lot of hidden messages there!
Ozymandias, the sonnet, is Shelley laughing at Rameses II, who was defeated by Moses, and also at monarchy in England and all tyrants and tyranny, thus laughing at all right and alt-right and fascist governments, including Hitler's and Modi's. But it is also Shelley laughing at more things, the idea that a ruler is God or like God or that power or violence matters, and at how art tells the truth even when forced to serve the oppressor. I begin to get all its layers only now, at the age of 57. though tracking out its references to the Bible etc. Most of all, it is Shelley laughing about how the ones who cause others to despair and think they are the mightiest end up in the trashcan of history and their nations or kingdoms, patriarchal ones, due to death and time. Shelley, what a great poet!
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