"Captain America: The Winter Soldier" Re-decoding Marvel's biggest turning point in "Politics, Movies, MCU"

The void of the hero Captain America

A red, blue, and white suit modeled after the American flag, the Stars and Stripes, and a trademark shield. Captain America, who appeared as a symbol of the nation and a presence that seemed to represent the people, was originally Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), a skinny and sickly young man. Steve has a strong sense of justice and is full of the will to fight on the front lines of World War II, but his physical condition prevents him from fulfilling his wish.He takes part in the military's top secret experiment, the Super Soldier Project. He is chosen by a man and receives a superhuman serum that successfully strengthens his body and mind. Steve goes into battle as Captain America, but what awaits him is the death of his best friend, Bucky Barnes. Furthermore, after a deadly battle with his nemesis Red Skull, he ends up in a frozen sleep for about 70 years in the North Pole.

Steve wakes up in modern America, which is not the world he once knew. His companions have passed away, and Peggy Carter, who had promised him a dance, has started a family after she was no longer heard from, and is now old and sick in bed. In this day and age, all traces of Steve's life as a human being are disappearing. In the midst of all this, Steve is working hard to catch up with the times and fill in the ``Intolerance of the times'' that he was unable to experience. Words written on the notepad I carry around include "I Love Lucy," "Moon Landing," "Berlin Wall," "Steve Jobs," "Star Wars/Trek," "Nirvana," and "Rocky." A number of. After all, he doesn't even know about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

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However, what is most difficult for Steve to accept is that the form of ``justice'' he believed in has changed, and even the military that was supposed to represent that belief has changed. Even on a mission to defeat pirates who have occupied a ship belonging to the international peacekeeping organization SHIELD, all information is not shared with Steve and the full details of the mission are not revealed. The InSight project, which is being prepared to protect world and national security, will link a giant helicarrier over Washington with a reconnaissance satellite and use long-range artillery to kill terrorists and other dangerous elements based on DNA information. thing. In other words, the plan is to nip the crisis in the bud before a terrorist act takes place, but Steve, who fought for freedom in World War II, refuses to cooperate, saying, ``This is not freedom, it's fear.'' .

However, the world has changed more than Steve could have imagined. The pirate-suppression mission that Steve and his friends participated in is about to become a territorial and international issue at the World Security Committee, and Director Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) is held responsible. Whether it's Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson), a fellow Avengers, or Fury, they don't have the attitude of directly pursuing justice, and somehow arouse Steve's distrust. As expected, Fury was targeted by someone and was seriously injured, telling Steve not to trust anyone before dying.

"I came here trying to do the right thing." More incidents attack Steve, who stands up with a sense of emptiness in both the justice he believed in and the reason for the existence of a hero named Captain America. The Winter Soldier, the assassin who killed Fury, was actually Bucky Barnes, Fury's best friend who was supposed to have died 70 years ago.

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