Qhat is a hero today? To this question, the cinema provides increasingly varied and intriguing answers. We remember that in Toy Story 4 it’s a plastic fork (Fourchette, its real name) customized by a child who filled the film with her identity questions. “I am not a toy, I am a cook. I was made for soup, salad, maybe a little tabbouleh, and then presto! in the garbage. I’m trash…free! », declares this disposable “me”, jumping out the window of the family motorhome to voluntarily join some dumpster. Is Fourchette really a toy? A simple waste? One thing is certain, this object which refuses social assignments is so endearing, with its wobbly eyes and its disjointed arms, that it now has its own mini-pellets on Disney+ (“ Fourchette asks questions “).
In the same way, in Guardians of the Galaxy, volumes 1, 2 and 3, hysterical space opera where a gang of friends rush in all directions to save the universe, Rocket Raccoon, a raccoon who talks as fast as he shoots, ended up becoming the epicenter of the Marvel franchise, which it radiated from its periphery. Rocket Raccoon, whose name is inspired by a Beatles song (Rocky Raccoon), it is first of all an angular face like no other: physically, it looks like Lee Van Cleef with hair. Always equipped with a huge laser blaster, this excellent spaceship pilot (a nod to Han Solo from Star Wars) carries around a sort of chronic bad mood, the ferments of which are revealed to us in dribs and drabs in the first two parts of the saga: “I didn’t ask to be made! I didn’t ask to be torn and reassembled again and again, turned into a…little monster! »gets carried away the hairy character, after having drunk a little too much.
One would almost think we were hearing the flagship affirmation of the trans philosopher Paul B. Preciado, whose famous book, a virulent charge against psychoanalysis, was precisely titled I am a monster talking to you (Grasset, 2020). ” Wellhe wrote, it is from this mentally ill position to which you refer me that I address you as a monkey-human of a new era. I am the monster talking to you. The monster that you have built with your speeches and your clinical practices. I am the monster who rises from the couch and speaks, not as a patient, but as a citizen, as your monstrous equal. »
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