A deeper story then it might appear at first, also incredibly fun!

Rating: 10/10 (17 March 2019)

This is already one of my favorite blockbuster movies of all time. This movie is great at having many layers of meanings. It gives as much as the viewer is willing to take. This is one of the reasons people are having such radically different experiences of the movie.
This wasn't a conventional superhero movie about a person becoming a hero. It was a story of Carol breaking out of mental prison to reclaim who she was, a human hero. The main thrust of the movie was The Kree telling her they had given her powers and they could take them away. Without them she was nothing. The turn was for her to remember that as a human she was resilient and a hero, not weak and nothing which also lead her to recalling she had those powers and the Kree were simply inhibiting them. Thus at the end she was free. The struggle and main tension was psychological not outward. The main turning points were reuniting with her best friend and her daughter and then learning she had been fight in an unjust war, used as a weapon by a destructive empire. To me her inner journey was dynamic and emotionally powerful, but I get people wanting more of an outward struggle, I just didn't care about that stuff.

Brie Larson is amazing, but she doesn't play an over the top kind of character we get in some MCU movies. I will admit it's so much easier to see and appreciate what Brie Larson is doing with CM's inner journey on a rematch.....the first time it's almost too nuanced/subtle to pick up everything not knowing the whole story. It really is amazing, the incredible nuances, every small thing she does relates to what's happening inside her mind.
Also this is not a feminist movie imo.....it's just that the main character is a women so her story is going to include her memories and experiences (like having a best friend who's a women, whatever struggles she had becoming a pilot). The scene where she keeps getting up, isn't about her being a girl, it's about a person's ability to keep getting up portrayed through a woman character so obviously the images and references are going to use a woman! I guess your view really depends on if you identify with her or not whatever your gender. This feels like a post-feminist movie. It's not trying to show women can play bad ass characters like the 80's action movies, it's not showing a regular girl can become a hero(Buffy), or a princess can be a warrior hero(wonder woman). No this is just a story about a maverick, trailblazing woman and how she becomes a superhero, it just tells her story straightforwardly because it has nothing to prove to you!
There is a lot of subtext in this movie, but that would require pages to get into.