Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Oh, Those Poor Men of Underworld 3! (With Spoilers)

Saw Underworld 3 with the Hub-sand on Saturday, and while it was good, it must be said that Sonia doesn't hold a candle to Selene. However that's OK, because the movie's not about Sonia, it's about Victor and Lucian. How silly of us to think that the female could play an important role in what is obviously a man's war.
Oh, I forgot: She did play an important role: She got pregnant with Lucian's baby. And then, she died. The dying is important because of how much it upsets both Lucian and Victor. She also needed to be rescued by Lucian, waiting until only after he showed up to draw her sword and start killing her fellow vampires. Selene, it must be said, would have waited for no one, before she started killing.
Also, does Victor give Selene Sonia's old leather corset? Because that, right there, is kind of creepy, folks. (Sonia being Victor's daughter and all, and Selene being viewed as something of Sonia's replacement in Victor's eyes.) However, Selene is more than a "replacement Sonia," she is, obviously, quite the improvement. Sonia had no agency, either in her life, or her death, (despite the film's attempts to show her as "stubborn and strong,") whereas Selene, in both films, is shown to have her own motivations for all of her actions, which may not have anything to do with the desires of the men in her life.
I loved the first Underworld, and I liked Underworld 2. Underworld 3, however, proved very disappointing. Because, while the first two films gave us Selene, this last one, once again, makes everything that happens to the woman it, really all about the men, and how they are affected.

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