This post is about the movie Fantastic Four: First Steps. Directed by Matt Shakman. Starring Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. You can watch the film here on Amazon Prime Video.
The Makings of Family
All eyes to the cosmic and the four fantastic. Unifying the world under a cause galactic. The herald makes known the news of fate, and the only way to save is a cost too great. One life for all is no way to live. What sacrifice to make when it’s yours to give. Bridge, conserve, to span the globe, a message of record to save our home. With the world at stake, what levels the score, far greater than the fantastic, for he, is more.
When too high a cost, what does it mean to be a family?
Prefer to listen? Hear my reading of the reflection aloud.
Fantastic Four: First Steps is a long-awaited stretch long awaited. As an adventuring echo to the making of family, there’s a hominess and tender amongst the modernly vintage telling of Marvel’s first. Where too high a price brings a world of wonder, and we dare to hope the daunting can be abridged, by this small group of committed citizens.
Themes. Thoughts. Reflections.
I Really Want to Do This. To make something entirely us yet uniquely their being, a first step beyond intrinsic, an existential affirmation of being. A great gift to be protected.
Out of Your Depth. Are we ever really in it? Better to own up to the fear than to let it own you.
I Herald His Beginning. I Herald Your End. I Herald Galactus. With every beginning there too is an end. Who is to herald this message? How is the time best spent?
Dreamers. The ones who look to the stars. Who dare to cross the space of the unknown and discovery. Where the path to your greatest adventure, is your greatest mystery.
The Danger Unknown. Lies on the opposite end of profound radical change.
Good luck and God Speed. Bon voyage. Be of good cheer. May the best be with you. A bid of good wishes to the journey ahead. Measure your steps and ever more carefully, your breath.
Die With Yours. A blessing. To be surrounded by those who love you, when the end is soon to come.
Are We Safe? I Don’t Know. It’s nothing they can really promise and something we can only hope for. Be grateful in knowing when you are safe.
Give Me a Lever and a Place To Stand and I Can Move The Earth. The resolve to the greatest challenge lies in the pairing of what you have, have yet to know, and can conceive. Set forth the mind by way of belief, and the extraordinary can be done.
What is To Be Our Fate? One of the great many questions. No more is it a fate than it is a consequence.
I Don’t Dream I Wonder. No dream can be without wonder; yet, wonder can be without dreams.
Sometimes You Being You Hurts Me. It’s not your intention. You bring all of yourself in the enrapturing of love with a genuine draw to bring them something good. The making of your mind can be their deepest pain. At times it hurts them, and it hurts you too.
As a Family. Far more than what runs through our veins. It is a bond. With love, a great unity and goodness can there be.
The More I Look, the Less I Know. You can only aim to know so much. To control, so much. It is in the letting go, you come to know so much more. Let him show you.
This Is Going to Work? It Has To. Because if not, the cost is too high. We must dare to hope.
Not Your Sacrifice To Make. Yet, let there be one to always offer.
Go Save Our Son. Tend to them. Be there to train them up. In every good effort, make that happen.
Hang on Sues. A sacrifice for her own. What else is there to do? A mother’s will, truly a sight to behold.
Right Now He’s Here. That’s what matters most. All that they are, all they will ever be, comes from what is made of right now. How precious a life this is and can be.
To The Believer
No greater gift can than be there to lay one’s life down for their friends. Their family. The goodness that precedes anything we have ever been, and the light that shines through to what we can ever be. A life made living by a commitment to good, to those we know as family.
Far greater are the bounds of existing than the commission put forward by knowledge of good and evil. For as we are free to commit to great good, by the same way we are unreservedly free, a freedom shared as the everlasting communion predating our ideations of living.
There can be no great way forward without the relinquishing of ill-derived tenets, and assuredly we must tend to the amassing hosts that may say otherwise. Be first attentive to your own doings, earnestly; a unity far greater than we’ve known can be achieved.
“And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect unity”
Colossians 3:14
Credit: Script and select imagery used in this post is from Fantastic Four: First Steps (© Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures), artistically edited and included for reflective and thematic purposes.
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