And I mean, the movie even makes a point of it not being "easy" on Thanos, it being a decision he experiences as one he made under duress. That, to me, was the part that really solidified that the movie gets the way abusers think, the way everything becomes about the control you exert on yourself, the control you exert on your environment. He did it, but he "had" to do it. "Look at what you/them/the circumstances/society made me do."
I gotta disagree on the side of good treating Thanos' plan like a legitimate but misguided attempt, though? To me, the way his interactions with characters played out were more everyone realising that he's a maniac... and then being thrown by his self-assurance, by his composure. That, also, read very true to life -- a lot of abusive people can on the surface have that charisma that even when you know exactly what they did, you're put on the defensive.
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And I mean, the movie even makes a point of it not being "easy" on Thanos, it being a decision he experiences as one he made under duress. That, to me, was the part that really solidified that the movie gets the way abusers think, the way everything becomes about the control you exert on yourself, the control you exert on your environment. He did it, but he "had" to do it. "Look at what you/them/the circumstances/society made me do."
I gotta disagree on the side of good treating Thanos' plan like a legitimate but misguided attempt, though? To me, the way his interactions with characters played out were more everyone realising that he's a maniac... and then being thrown by his self-assurance, by his composure. That, also, read very true to life -- a lot of abusive people can on the surface have that charisma that even when you know exactly what they did, you're put on the defensive.