If you are one of the fans who could already enjoy Thor: Love and Thunder, surely you have noticed. What started out as a quasi-parodic comedy about the God of Thunder turned into an emotional arc of redemption.
For one thing, Jane Foster said goodbye to the Marvel Cinematic Universe after an admirable heroic run. On the other hand, Thor found the reason and purpose to continue that he has sought for much of his saga. Something that we could already see in another saga: in The Mandalorian of Star Wars.
And the plot provided emotional and spiritual focus by drawing on one of the best-known tropes of traditional dramatic cinema. After traversing a long road of sorrow, defeating Christian Bale’s ferocious Gorr, and firing Jane, Thor found peace. He did it in the most emotional and sensitive way possible. Becoming the father of his enemy’s daughter, resurrected as Gorr’s dying wish.
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It is a plot twist that amazes and moves in equal parts. Thor, who lost his entire family and the woman he loved, found in his enemy’s little daughter a reason to validate his personal purpose. Thor: love and thunder he insists in almost all his argument on the reinvention of his titular character and also, raises his emotional maturity. In fact, the film shows the relationship between Jane and Thor for the first time, allowing us to understand the character from a new angle.
From hero in battle, alone in search of meaning to father of a little girl, Thor went a long way to understand his ultimate meaning as a hero, relationship with power and divinity. And that journey, that the argument of Thor: Love and Thunder he leads with intelligent and solid kindness he relates him to another similar story. the of The Mandalorian.
From a galaxy far, far away comes another single dad to Thor: Love and Thunder
The reference is obvious. Thor: Love and Thunder manages to parent Thor into the well-known trope of the protector of the underdog. A plot twist that has become popular in recent years, thanks to the flagship Star Wars series on Disney +, The Mandalorian. Both Mando and Thor are men who have come through a long chain of obstacles. And both one and the other, found their balance point by taking care of children and young people, creatures.
It is touching that both the Asgardian hero of Thor: Love and Thunder like the Mandalorian are emblems of the same idea. Powerful men who were looking for a way to understand their own history and a point of union with their past. Din Djarin, who lost his family when he was very young, took the path of the mandalorians as a way of survival. At the other end of the spectrum, Thor was stripped of all symbols associated with his power. Both one and the other had to struggle to find a new place in which to understand their sense of the spiritual and emotional.
It is curious that both the Thor tetralogy and the Star Wars series give their characters a renewed vitality thanks to fatherhood. A way of understanding a new type of sensitivity for male characters in the cinema that amazes with its effectiveness and power.