Jessica Jones. Everything that doesn't kill you makes you more stranger
New York. "Robert de Niro's" nostalgia for Hell's Kitchen, the atmosphere saturated with snow and frost, then wind and heavy rain, it resembles a soft Halloween in the coffee shops of Gotham's East End or the real Bronx, and the yellow-red extravaganza of autumn, and rainy December in Paris; it seems that Jessica Jones lives with us; here and now, here and nearby, not in parallel, but in our Universe, she walks not only inside the red-brick boroughs of New England, but also among the medieval Paris streets, elegantly, freely wearing shabby jeans, a bottle of expensive whiskey in his Kerouac-era handbag stuffed with everything, while remaining superlady. It seems as if she is the one who goes up to the apartment next to you somewhere on 107 rue Oberkampf in Paris, with a smile bypassing drugged drunks and expensive cars, opens Art Azoi or Le M.U.R. in the loft, and her Acer laptop (not some Macbook or Sony Vaio, mind you!) and eliminates the world's evil in the same way that you can do it.
Yes, I like the loose fashion of 2015-2025 in this series created by Melissa Rosenberg - exactly like in "Sense8", in "Dark Child" or in "Cute Liars". Netflix is doing well in this now, I don't know how Marvel is. I like the realistic life of New York and Hell's Kitchen - modern, not floral-hippy or boundlessly gangster in the style of "West Side Story" of the 1960s. Although the purple and crimson atmosphere of Hell's Kitchen has remained unchanged, as if it is now the 1950s...
I like the fact that it's true - "everything that doesn't kill you makes you more stranger" - we are in a post-epoch of banditry and informality, and it's as if all the ideals that kept humanity in drive have ended - generation Y is either suffocating, or has already suffocated in the format of its Facebook or Instagram - and we have already passed our quantum leap into the future, whether we noticed it or not, I don't know - and here it has come, here and now. I like the truth about the "new age trolls", who are now called that way - about people with psychic abilities, which, of course, all governments, according to invariable conspiracy theories, use for power and control, and I like and it seems that the big find of the authors of the series was to invite one of them David Tennant to this role...
He does psychopaths very well, and I like this eternal story about experiments to create "super soldiers", about how it gets out of control and damages the surrounding life. I like the attitude of New Yorkers to work - they all work, and they work a lot, they consider it a shame to be idlers (which can't be said about us, where everyone idolizes 3 things: remote work, someone else's business and nightclubs).
I like the openness of people to each other, and, as usual, loyalty in friendship and love, for which I personally love American cinema and the American way of life. The character of Kristen Ritter is a portrait of a sensitive winner who can be strong, her Jessica Jones is really Knightress and Jewel; intelligent and romantic, possessing both freedom and inner core at the same time, and without social or feminist declarations.
We are looking for "heroes", but many of us want to see in them not only a victory over extreme situations, but also a victory over everyday life, and a victory over ourselves. And in Jessica, I personally see for myself a "superhero of our time." She is in control of herself and her life, she does not suffer from "niggerism" (when the poor strata begin to dress up "to the nines" and buy "golden gadgets" to show that they are "no longer poor" - typical of Brooklyn, for immigrants from third world countries, and, of course, for Parisian suburbs and Arab neighborhoods). She knows how to love and chooses the coolest man - the only one - who, in my opinion, is worthy of her - Luke Cage (Mike Coulter); she knows how to create and maintain a real friendship with Trisha Walker (a great game of "the main character-2" Rachel Taylor), and together pull off a lot of successful pranks, and not once to prevent a single false note in all this, - even Kristen's weakness plays out perfectly, - without a shadow of a lie to them or to herself, for example, easily and without fanaticism removes her friend Malcolm (Eika Darvill) from the needle, - and indeed, there is no need for any "requiem for a dream" (as passers-by aptly called the guy), - today we have little time for this.
However, in the midst of this apparent lightness, Jessica overcomes the real contract with Darkness, and having overcome it, she helps others to get out of this Darkness. Each of the readers in life has his own Zebediah Kilgrave, in terrible dependence on which your life passes through your fingers. This is your toxic parent or a fake lover chasing you, these are pseudo-friends who are ready to stab you in the back at any moment out of envy and anger in order to make you nobody and nothing for a long time. And you have been proving for years on forums or in social networks how good they are, or vice versa, trying to get rid of them, but all attempts are unsuccessful, because the name of this curse is Codependency.
This creature is always with you, it can be invisible to others, but you know that there is no salvation - neither in romantic walks under blue-purple neon lights, nor in the park, and even whiskey can not always save you from this ghost, often created from your own vital energy.
And that's what takes the series beyond a simple Superhero story. Victory over oneself is the essence of the series "Jessica Jones", and this is her main superhero feature.
This unites millions of people around the world with Jessica in one Cluster, to use the term from the TV series "Sense8", and makes us truly not alone.
From the point of view of action, maybe the series is inferior to some others, in which the emphasis is placed on battle scenes, "Daredevil" or "Luke Cage", but from the point of view of psychologism, - loyalty to ourselves at every step in our strange life, - without whining, tantrums and weakness, constantly maintaining a sense of self-esteem and elegance, the ability to be yourself not only in the adrenaline extreme, but also in everyday life, - both the heroine and the series surpass many works in cinema, and comics, and books. The big discovery for me was the episodic role of Dr. Cherell Cargill, In a few minutes of caring for Luke in Jessica's apartment, she reveals both her charismatic potential and the potential of her character, who is especially good in Daredevil.
But the beauty and tragedy of the series is more. Having lost her mother, friend, lover, Jessica returned to us without breaking down, lifting from her knees anyone who dares to go through the second and third seasons of the series, the power of which is not inferior to either the "Originals" or "Breaking Bad", and they all tell the same story, sad, fascinating, inspiring, saving and making stronger lonely wanderers on the cold twilight, night streets, which can only be warmed by Whiskey and your real Overcoming of your own Darkness to become truly truly free.
