Brooke Obie Reviews: Thor: Love & Thunder
*Spoilers for the plot of the movie Thor: Love & Thunder*
It took me three tries to watch Thor: Love and Thunder in the waking nightmare that is the Covid/Monkeypox pandemic era. The two screenings I attempted to attend, full of people wearing Thor’s viking helmet but no masks over their noses and mouths, may very well be my villain origin story.
On opening day, I climbed the stairs to the top of Hollywood’s regal and expansive El Capitan theater in the middle of the afternoon and sat in the middle of the very last row in what felt like acres away from the sparse (but still unmasked?!!) crowd of moviegoers, and watched til the end of the credits, disappointed by the journey.
That is to say, I can relate to the movie’s villain, Gorr.
The film begins with Gorr (Christian Bale) and his young daughter, the last survivors of their people, trekking through the desert, desperate, wounded, starving. Gorr’s daughter dies on the journey and a distraught Gorr unwittingly stumbles into the valley of his people’s god. A devout worshiper despite the total annihilation of his people and his daughter, Gorr bows before his god and begs for answers for his people’s destruction. The god, gorging himself on fruit in the lap of luxury, is dismissive, even laughing at Gorr and his people’s fate. “The gods will use you but they will not help you,” Gorr learns firsthand. The Necrosword, the only weapon strong enough to kill gods, chooses Gorr for its mission, and in grasping the Necrosword and murdering his god, Gorr the God Butcher is born.
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