As a fellow single mom said to me recently: "I get Mother's Day and Father's Day."Īs a mom, Wanda doesn't have daughters, little witchlings like her. Because the boys' father (at least the one they knew) is dead, Wanda doesn't have any backup. One realistic detail of the film? Wanda and the boys' house is always messy. She's a character defined only by her relationship to mothering. Wanda is a saintly mother of boisterous sons, or a childless demon, trying to kill everyone. what's the reason for trying to kidnap them again? Wanda wants this ability to get to her sons. But her sons, living in another universes, are fine, well cared for by other versions of Wanda herself, which she knows going into it.
The plot of "Doctor Strange" is that Wanda is going to kill a young girl, America Chavez ( Xochitl Gomez), in order to obtain the girl's power of traveling through universes. Never mind all that other stuff, including pesky character development. Quickly, in her very first scene, Wanda switches from a person healing to a murderous villain (the Scarlet Witch). "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" wants you to pretend that never happened. But at the end of "WandaVision," Wanda, going through the stages of grief, realizes the harm she caused many innocent people with her invented world, and that she has to give up her fantasy and learn to live with loss. Wrecked with grief over the death of her husband, Vision, in the Disney+ show Wanda created a magical world where he's still alive, they're together and they have twin boys.
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The latest "Doctor Strange" movie picks up where the streaming series " WandaVision" left off (which has to make it confusing for the many people without a Disney+ subscription). RELATED: "Harry Potter and the retconning of Dumbledore: It's no longer about the story"
More plot device than person, is this one more woman role written thinly by a man, "Loki" scribe Michael Waldron (with notes from Olsen)? The movie's idea of motherhood and womanhood is shallow, at best: an Instagram fantasy. In the latest Marvel film, Wanda ( Elizabeth Olsen) is a single mother (in some universes), yet her actions in the film defy logic, seemingly out of step not only for a mom but for her established character. What about the deaths of everyone else, in theory to protect a couple of kids? That's a plot " Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" wants us to swallow, making a mother the villain. Not that I was pro-killing children in art before, but since becoming a parent, that's a plotline I and many people with families have difficulty with, especially if the story doesn't really merit it. Recently I stopped reading a popular book partly because the story hinged on the death of children.
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