The superheroes in Chloé Zhao’s “Eternals” are bound to each other by many things, starting with the interlocking rings and shafts and bolts of golden light that emanate from their very…
” are bound to each other by many things, starting with the interlocking rings and shafts and bolts of golden light that emanate from their very being. The light — a cosmic energy they share — is the piping that lines their uniforms, and it’s the shape-shifting weaponry they conjure to battle the Deviants .
Their spirit of free-flowing, all-for-one unity extends to the diversity of the characters, which is something the movie presents with a no-big-deal effrontery that makes them a winning prototype of a more dynamically inclusive superhero world. Four of the Eternals are white, three are Asian, two are Black, and one is Latina. One is gay, one is deaf, and one is an androgynous tween who never grows up.
“Eternals” has none of that. It’s clear that Zhao, in signing up for this project, made a decision to put her highly expressive and idiosyncratic style on the shelf, and to embrace the straight-up expository conventionality of Marvel filmmaking. That’s something of a disappointment.
In the contemporary world, each Eternal has a home, but they’re a bit like vampires: ageless impersonators of normality . Sirse, played with a three-dimensional command by, is our heroine, a London museum curator who has carried on a love affair across the centuries with the dashing Ikaris — though that ended, and now she’s involved with the merely human Dane .
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