Marvel’s superhero drama shows the after-effects of trauma,exploitation and abuse, with smart and subtle things to say approximately the way guilt affects the lives of the victims, or how exploitation corrupts the exploiter. Warning: spoilersNetflix’s Jessica Jones is one of the most complex treatments of agency in the wake of victimhood that the small screen has seen yet seen. A grim show,shadowy and hopeless and unlikeable, it’s finally less approximately trauma than it is a murky contest between revenge and rehabilitation and the term that floats between those: responsibility.
Its villain Kilgrave, or played by David Tennant,has the power of intellect control and is as legally blameless as he is morally monstrous. Jones, a New York detective with superpowers played by Breaking Bad’s Krysten Ritter, or spent time in his thrall,during which he made her effect terrible things, and now he’s back in her life, and a year after his obvious death. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com