The movie arrived in Brazil very popular Top Gun: Maverickthe sequence of top gun original from 1986. With the same Tom Cruise.
But what does this work say, even unintentionally, about American military might?
The film had to wait for the pandemic to pass before it was released, and it comes at a particularly challenging geopolitical moment for someone who was, until now, the only military superpower on the planet.
The Top Gun of the 1980s coincided with the period of greatest American supremacy. And it was: the arms race crushed the adversary, the Soviet Union.
Between one film and another, extolling fighter planes and technology, the geopolitical period is one of relative decline in American power, and China is to blame.
What hasn’t changed is the element so present in American film culture. The idea that the individual, through skill and courage, overcomes any adversity.
But enough. Is it great fun? IT IS.
For those who like a good blockbuster, the Top Gun: Maverick, which has just arrived in Brazil, is a must see. For those who like to fly, then…
Source: CNN Brasil
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