Minority Mindset

The new film is directed by Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei, the team behind How to Blow Up a Pipeline. It stars Barbie Ferreira as Margot, a content moderator for the social media site Kino. Margot begins investigating a series of disturbing videos that appear to show actual murders. She realizes the videos are recreations of scenes from the original Faces of Death documentary and tries to uncover whether they are genuine or faked.

According to FlixPatrol, the new series quickly became popular on Hulu, landing at No. 5 in the U.S. just one day after its release on April 8th. It’s also doing very well on Disney+ around the world, reaching the top spot in countries including France, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, and Spain.

In the Disney+ series, Wilson Fisk has made it clear he opposes vigilantes. His Anti-Vigilante Task Force is used to target anyone who causes trouble for him, even people who work with him. This put Jack Duquesne, a prominent New York City socialite, in danger. Because Duquesne secretly operated as the hero The Swordsman, Fisk easily had him arrested and falsely accused of crimes.

In the play The Drama, a couple who are engaged begin to see each other in a completely new light. This causes them significant emotional pain, ultimately ruining their once-perfect relationship and leaving both them and the audience feeling like they’ve become strangers.

Watching him in this role brought to mind one of James Corden’s early acting performances, a stark contrast to his current work. In Mike Leigh’s moving but somber 2002 film, All or Nothing, Corden played Rory, a troubled teenager who suffers a heart attack during an argument. The film featured a talented cast including Timothy Spall, Leslie Manville, Ruth Sheen, and a young Sally Hawkins, and Corden more than held his own. Rory is a typical Leigh character – flawed and often unlikeable, yet deeply human. When All or Nothing was first released, Corden was relatively unknown, though he’d gained some recognition for his role in the British series Fat Friends. I certainly didn’t recognize him then. Revisiting the film years later for its restoration, I was surprised to realize that this gruff, unpleasant young man would become the upbeat TV host and personality we know today.

With the main Solo Leveling story on pause, the Hunter Origin side stories have been keeping fans engaged. The newest one centers on Elena Renault, a character introduced early in Solo Leveling: Arise, but whose personal history wasn’t explored until much later.