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Originally Posted by legion
The opening sequence with Clint Barton and his family was probably the most depressing piece of cinema I'd ever seen up until that point
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It's freaking stupid how the movie/TV/music industry has figured out how to mess with our heads so well. That scene was built...designed...for the sole purpose of breaking you down before the rest of the movie. The MOMENT he appears with his family, you know what is going to happen, and how. You KNOW what it is, yet when it comes it "surprises" your brain, and you break down.
Ear worm songs? Billion dollar movies about imaginary superheros? TV shows where the dad dies because of a badly wired crock pot? All ways that some dude somewhere has PERFECTED the art of messing with us. Certain rhythms, certain subjects, certain vocal cadence, certain background imagery, certain colors, all triggering some lizard part of our brain and CONVINCING us that the song is extra rad, that the TV show deserves a second episode, and that the movie is the saddest thing we've ever seen.