Isn’t the anarchic superhero movie “Blue Beetle” just cultural imperialism?

For reasons that are not clear, positive reviews also appear in the United States blue beetle, a messy and sick superhero movie. The film is supposed to stick to its Latino characters, but at the same time forces all of its actors to speak English. While it is clear that at least half of the actors do not speak their mother tongue. Isn’t this just cultural imperialism?

In the first minute, the film quickly cuts through a number of newspaper clippings that should make it clear to the uninitiated viewer what Blue Beetle’s background is. Things go way too fast and the lack of information seems like a waste of time watching.

In the Caricature On which the movie is based, Blue Beetle didn’t always remain the same guy. In 1939, it is young cop Dan Garrett who fights crime after his father is murdered by a criminal. There were no superpowers yet. They debuted in a new series blue beetleA 1964 cartoon in which archaeologist Dan Garrett discovers a magical scarab in Egypt. In the film, the first live-action version of Blue Beetle, Jimmy Reyes is the young protagonist; He first appeared in the comics in 2006 as the superhero.

In the film, Reyes, a recent college graduate, returns to his family by taking slightly forced detours to obtain the scarab. The artifact “chooses” Jimmy—the reason is unclear—and invades his body.

In a bizarre scene, one of the more extreme shifts in tone of the film (then comedy, then hardcore action, then homegrown soapy drama), a scarab takes hold of Jimmy’s body as the entire family stands around him, loudly, but not too loudly. convincingly. After this, Jimmy has superpowers, though it’s not clear which. The rest of the movie consists of fighting an evil company that makes weapons.

Someone emphasizes over and over that the true superpower is in the family (not in a bulletproof superhero suit that will take you into the stratosphere in ten seconds). This produces a somewhat ambiguous message. Love each other, trust your families, but destroy those who stand in your way.