![]() More than ten years have passed since this movie came out, but sadly, the U.S. Our actions are completely irreconcilable with our image as supporters of peace, justice, and democracy. We're still bombing people indiscriminately, and still causing the heartache of civilian casualties. However, the problem is that more than ten years have passed since this movie gave voice to this hope, and it hasn't yet been realized. There is a perhaps naive hope that technology will some day help us get to where we stop bombing people indiscriminately, and better target the "bad guys" as separate from the innocent. military intervention during this "war on terror" period has a hard time distinguishing combatants from civilians. It also appears to criticize the way U.S. often has a hand, directly or indirectly, in creating the very "monsters" it fights. On the other hand, the movie is also not a hawkish movie in its message - it's very critical of the way the U.S. It's impossible for me to talk about this with the detachment of a neutral reporter. I personally know someone who ended up with PTSD from the war in Afghanistan. That makes me angry, because 2008 was the year I graduated high school, and such ads were directly responsible for recruiting my friends and classmates. As mentioned above, it's hard to not see the excessive product placement of U.S. The film has an interesting relationship to the U.S. It explains not only how the superhero in question, Iron Man, came by his powers, but his worldview and philosophy surrounding the use of power. This movie is pretty damn close to being the perfect superhero origin story. We need proof that America still has a heart. This concept culminates in Age of Ultron, which is about a rogue AI, made by Tony Stark, that becomes a threat to the Avengers. J.A.R.V.I.S., an AI Stark uses as a personal engineering assistant, becomes more of a character in his own right. Later Iron Man movies, and Iron Man's arcs in Avengers movies explore the Android/AI concept as well. You can see that this heart represents a greater merging of human and machine, making Tony a little bit of a cyborg, because he gains a mechanized heart. Refer to the table above, talking about different types of robots in fiction. Tony was unique in being able to build a small version of the arc reactor, which he used to power both his artificial heart, and his Iron Man suit. Obadiah planned to use this to make his own version of the Iron Man suits, to to both sides in the war, just like how the Stark Industry missiles had been used. He takes Tony's mechanical heart away, because it's a smaller version of the "arc reactor", a fictional source of clean energy Stark Industries had built, but had not considered cost-effective. His goal is to fight wars in a way that is not just indiscriminately blowing people up, then - but to save people. When he finally is able to use it in combat, it's shown that he can detect the difference between a civilian and a combatant. He withdraws to his room like a sullen teenager, but he's not in there smoking pot and listening to My Chemical Romance - he's building a better Iron Man suit. When back in the United States, Tony decides to disavow Stark Industries' weapons manufacturing past. Pretending to cooperate with the terrorists, he instead uses their resources to build his first Iron Man suit. They use waterboarding, which was a controversial method of torture human rights groups internationally have criticized America for its use of it on suspected terrorists. ![]() When demonstrating a new kind of missile in Afghanistan, Stark is taken captive by terrorists, who torture him to try to make them build such a missile for them. While he has been criticized by the media for aforementioned war profiteering, he also points out that major medical breakthroughs that have saved countless lives have also happened because of military funding. ![]() Tony Stark is the genius billionaire inventor leading America's top weapons company. ![]()
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