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[quigonejinn]

Hanna was really good, guys. Like, really, really, really good. Rich and satisfying and visually gorgeous, with this wonderful color palette. And the Chemical Brothers scoring of the fight scenes is badass, especially the container park, which I've been listening to on repeat for 30 minutes now and not even feeling vaguely guilty about. And the subway scene. And Cate Blanchett is kind of amazing. And Erik Bana, my God, I do find you attractive now.

I would watch this movie all the damn time for comfort, if by "comfort" we mean "sixteen year old girl killing people with her bare hands and sprinting across frozen landscapes and killing more people and goddamn that frozen landscape cinematography."



Dude, the moment when Eric Bana is standing in the apartment, pleading with Hanna to understand, and she won't listen? And then he tells her the story of how she was engineered to have a reduced capacity for fear and pity? The subsequent shot of her looking back at him with this face that just doesn't understand, and then beating the shit out of him so that he'll let her leave because she just doesn't understand? Because she has no pity.

It was slow and delayed and amazing. And the way that you, the viewer, realize that if she and her dad had worked together, they maybe could have gotten out of this alive, but they didn't. Because Hanna is what she is, and no matter how much he loves her, her father can't change that. I love the way that answer sneaks up on you after the movie, and you kind of know that it was meant because of the way that Hanna goes walking into the wolf-tunnel to kill Marisa.

Also, the boy and I spent pretty much the middle half of the movie giggling over the tongue-in-cheek stereotypes -- the British tourists caravanning through Morocco and Spain, the chav teenager girl, the feminist Cambridge creative, the little boy with the camera, the Germans with a taste for transsexuals and jack boots, THE SPANISH TEENAGE BOYS WHO ARE GORGEOUS AND LOOK LIKE RONALDO. It was fantastic.

In my mind, Samuel L. Jackson is waiting for her on the other side with a bottle of red hair dye and an invitation to join SHIELD.

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[thatyourefuse]

So what you're saying is, I should see this movie?

[quigonejinn]

That is correct.

[kickthebeat]

NOT ONE OF THOSE FAT LESBIANS BUT A SUPERMODEL ONE, WHO HOLDS HANDS AND PROBABLY ENDS UP MARRYING A MAN

[quigonejinn]

I swear to God, I laughed so hard that everyone in the theater turned around to look at me.

[ferricent]

First Friend chav girl was the best. I've been trying to come up with some way for the family to still be... y'know, "alive". Some way that isn't ridiculous.

[destronomics]

ME TOO. ME TOO. But there's just no way, is there? Maybe Cate's character wants to start up a new super soldier program (because you know that's what it is, you know they lost the tech during the war, and they've been trying to reverse engineer it ever since, but with Captain America found again, they can try the post-partum approach once again) and look, volunteers! Well. Of a sort.

MAINLY, FIRST FRIEND/HANNA OTP. Violently so.

[ferricent]

FIRST FRIEND/HANNA OTP

FOREVER.

Hanna teaching Sophie how to fire a gun, to check the windows, to throw a punch so it connects. Both of them taking a complete week to marathon Sophie's favorite movies. ("I know Hugh Grant is gross, but you've seriously never seen 'Love, Actually?'" Hanna shakes her head.) Sophie passing her drivers' ed exam on her first try. Hanna: on her fourth. Sharing kisses that neither of them expect.

How did I become such a sap. (Someone write me this fic.)

[quigonejinn]

I'm not sure it's that hard if, for example, Hanna doesn't run off into the container park when the dudes show up and she just fights them there, on the ground next to the van. Like, doesn't try to hide what she is from Sophie? And there is blood, and there is fear, and there is Hanna breaking a man's neck while on her knees. And then there are three men, lying in the ground and bleeding and Hanna turns her head to look back, her face smeared on the left side with blood.

"What is tennis?" The mother says this in almost a daze.

"Tennis is a sport played between two players (singles) or between two teams of two players ea -- "

Hanna doesn't shake her head or nod, and the mother drops the cell phone twice while making the call to the police, but she does make the call to the police, and the story is out to the Spanish media and to SHIELD before Marissa can do anything about it. In fact, she received a rather pointed visit from Cage to this point.

There are questions, after all, but nobody really wants them answered.

(Also: I've been fascinated thinking about a version of the story where Hanna's training in the woods is not really driven by Erik's need to get revenge against Marissa, but more the need to give Hanna a definable, clear goal that her engineering -- flipping the switch isn't the marker for when she is capable of the fighting, because Erik actually knows that she isn't ready to take on multiple-fighters. Instead, it's an indice of how long he can keep her in check.

He doesn't expect either of them to finish the job alive, and he thinks of it, in the end, as both cost-control and penance. )

[destronomics]

I genuinely consider this canon.

[quigonejinn]

It's the only happy ending, right?

The way Coulson's ears stick out remind her of Dad-after-the-haircut.