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To love and let go.

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Avengers: Endgame , by Joe Russo, Anthony Russo, Christopher Markus and Stephen Mc Feely . T he business of the great studios behind the seventh art has fatigued its clients, without even blushing and for more than half a century, with a shameless saturation of the same four genres (drama, romance, comedy, action at gunpoint) and its handful of storylines, regurgitated ad infinitum.        It is true that from time to time the viewer is allowed to enjoy fantasy with its ocean of possibilities, but the results of those brief lapses of unlashed creativity were never more than a few quality jewels quickly buried under an avalanche of mediocre imitations searching for a quick success in the box office.        However, when the same business understand that artistic renovation would eventually lead to more money, is when creativity and his carriers are not just allowed to exist, but even encouraged.        Thus, since a little more than a decade, the enthusiastic cinep
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To born again.

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Daredevil Season III. Drew Goddard and Jeph Loeb Granted, I rather like him with the suit on. Granted, thirteen chapters -again, Netflix? When-will-the-lesson-be-learned!!?- are more than too much. Granted, it is Born Again by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli, but more messed up than Memento. And granted, nothing of the above matters when the good parts are more than good, and I can say to myself, relieved, that it were not my over the top expectations, or the decay of my beloved superhero genre, the problem. It was the general quality of the final products -in recent series/ movies- what was holding things down. Like the original tale, the third season of the series abounds in hard to watch scenes, allegorical images, and non-gratuitous metaphors.  A trail of blood on a canvas that was never really white, two pacts with the devil (the second one, no matter how you look at it), an improvised tomb that buries the dream of a better future. The performances, su
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