We met her in 2011 in the second chapter of Iron Man knowing nothing of his previous life, believing only that he was a trained killing machine. Today, after amazing battles and millions of dollars spent and collected, Natasha Romanoff, surname that brazenly refers to the Tsarina dynasty, returns to tell us something more about the events that led her to fight alongside the Avengers and why she became one of the most dangerous spies of her generation: the film is Black Widow, is the first of Marvel’s so-called Phase 4 and comes the July 7 at the same time as the cinema and for a fee with VIP access on the platform Disney+ after the postponement dictated by the pandemic, with the hope that the public will return to the room to revive the fortunes of a box office that, especially in America, needs to breathe again.
To do so, Burbank relies on a superstar like Scarlett Johannson, the highest paid actress in Hollywood and executive producer of the film, and on a narrative approach that, more than a superhero story, seems to wink at the vein of espionage.
In the first part of the film, directed by the Australian Cate Shortland, we rewind the tape until 1995, with a teenage Natasha who, along with her mother, father and younger sister, lives a life that looks like something out of a Terrence Malick movie until the day things don’t go downhill and she discovers that everything which he believed was real it was a fiction to lead her to a life she never choseBetrayed and lost, Natasha ends up in the clutches of General Dreykov, a criminal mastermind who every year captures young women he trains as “black widows” to pursue his goals. Widows, who are subjected to hard training in the so-called Red Room, they do not have the power of their life and their actions and they no longer have the reproductive system, which is removed from them to prevent them from procreating: they are victims of a system that clouds their brains without allowing them to decide for themselves. 21 years after his kidnapping, in the period immediately following the events of Captain America: Civil WarHowever, Natasha tries to put the pieces of her broken life back together. Since the Avengers disbanded, she has ended up in the faction led by Steve Rogers, but that doesn’t stop her from going on a search for Dreykov to wipe out the Red Room once and for all, wherever it is.
Through numerous location changes and tons of action scenes, Black Widow reunites with his “sister” Yelena (Florence Pugh), his “father” Red Guardian (a great David Harbor, clumsy and Soviet response from Captain America) and his “mother” Melina (the Oscar Rachel Weisz) to track down the enemy who has stolen her life and ensure that there is finally justice. Of course we can not tell you more about the plot for fear of spoilers, although we can anticipate that the whole film is a perfect joint in which the glue is ensured by a Scarlett Johansson perfect in lending her face to a warrior torn by guilt but also with in mind an action plan that will bring you very close to your purpose. The beautiful things of the new Marvel chapter are two: the fact that the story is able to follow even those who have never seen an Avengers movie and the fact of having as its protagonist a human heroine who, like the cousin of the DC Comics competitor Batman, has no supernatural power, but survives only thanks to her strength and her «pose» (In recent years, Marvel has begun to cunningly irony about itself, and this leads to films being more genuine and appreciated). Through a skilful dose of thriller, unpredictability, fighting to the death and a very powerful enemy that looks a bit like Kylo Ren, Black Widow convinces and keeps you glued above all thanks to the skill of the protagonists. If you like the genre or, simply, if you like Scarlett Johansson, give it a chance: if we were lovers of subtext, we would tell you that Black Widow it is probably one of the most feminist films in the Marvel universe, but we are waiting to pronounce ourselves waiting to see Eternals by Chloé Zhao.
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