It turns out that SHIELD has been infiltrated by a group called Hydra, which was founded by Nazis during World War II. … Then the Insight helicarriers scratch people off the list – a few million at a time.” … Your bank records, medical histories, voting patterns, emails, phone calls, your damn SAT scores! algorithm evaluates people’s past to predict their future. The methodology is explained in the confession of one of the bad guys:
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What later becomes apparent is that the movie is also about dragnet surveillance, revealed in the way that targets are selected for death under the secret helicarrier program, Project Insight. “This isn’t freedom – this is fear,” Cap declares. “SHIELD takes the world as it is, not as we’d like it to be,” Fury says, echoing Dick Cheney’s defense of over-the-line counterterrorism tactics. “I thought the punishment usually came after the crime,” Cap replies, recalling the Obama administration’s elastic definition of the word “imminent” in its legal justification for putting people on the real-world kill list. “We’re gonna neutralize a lot of threats before they even happen.” And it is that, featuring a set of enormous SHIELD military drones called “helicarriers,” which prompt an exchange between Cap and SHIELD boss Nick Fury. At first, the movie seems to be only a commentary on targeted killing. Captain America – works for SHIELD, which is basically the CIA plus Navy SEAL Team Six plus the NSA times a thousand. Unfrozen WWII super-soldier Steve Rogers – a.k.a. 1 movie in the country – comes down on the latter side, wrapping its message in a red, white, and blue action-packed candy shell.
What is patriotism? Is it doing what the government says, or is it doing what you believe is true to the Constitution and American values? “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” – currently the No.
SPOILER WARNING: This post discusses major plot points of the new Captain America movie.
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