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My Facebook feed was full of excitement about “The Punisher” coming out on NETFLIX. Of all the movies I have to choose from, this would not have been my first choice. However, I have watched and enjoyed other Marvel shows, so I binged watched this new arrival.
I don’t think I’m giving anything away when I say it is a male-dominated film with two main female characters (reporter and FBI) and one two minute appearance by a female hacker. The main motivations, aside from conscience, is the killing of one family (woman and two kids) and protecting another family (woman and two kids). There are a few other subplots as well.
The Punisher devotes most of its screen time to gore: torture, killings, murder, vicious fights, and isolation. In parts, I had to turn the sound off and look away. Side themes are friendship and the difficulty of the Vet returning stateside and fitting in. I don’t think I give anything away when I state the last line in the movie: “I am scared.”
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The Punisher is a movie about domination and manipulation, the ability to take and receive physical and mental punishment, and winning – at any cost. How do these concepts coincide with your view of Masculinity? Does it change it? Support it? Question it?
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