So, I enjoyed Captain America: The Winter Soldier. In fact,
I think it is probably my favorite installment of the
Marvel-Avenger-movie-cross-over-thingy that is ongoing. But, just as the
previous sentence’s hyphenated monstrosity indicates a certain inability to
classify this series of movies, I wonder how to classify this movie
itself. Not in the sense that I don’t know which heading to put it under
at the movie store; I’d put it under “Action,” unless they've just thrown up
their hands and made a “Marvel-Avenger-movie-cross-over-thingy” section.
The difficulty is in determining whether the movie is
allegorical, metaphorical, fantastical, or realistic (though I flatter myself
that I can identify a few elements that don’t fit that last
description). And we want to do such a thing because we want to figure out what
good this story does.
It is possible for a story to throw new light on something
because, given a skilled and
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| Black Widow teaches us that one KGB agent can keep up with chemically enhanced super-soldiers and the Norse god of thunder. |
