This moment, right here. Gabe knows Antonio is right. He knows that they can bring him in, read him the riot act, interrogate him til their lungs are sore and still they will get nowhere.
Because Antonio has Talon at his fingertips. Sure, he could afford a hell of an attorney if he wanted to, but Gabe has already seen what this man can do – first hand. He knows what he is capable of, and he would almost certainly do it again. Why stop at one Overwatch facility? If he was brought into HQ, Talon would have themselves a goldmine. One way or another, Antonio would walk free again, and so many more lives could be lost.
Gabe knows this.
And so, even though it could cost him everything, he pulls the trigger. For Gérard. For the fallen agents. For the greater good.
A dumb realization about Scion Hanzo, And the Tale of The Two Dragon Brothers
So, there’s the theory about Hanzo staying with the Shimada after committing the “murder” on Genji. I can very well tell you that theory is correct. Scion Hanzo is Hanzo after he “murdered” Genji.
And this ties very closely into the good ol’ Tale Of The Two Dragon Brothers.
In the tale, the Dragon of the South Wind had triumphed over the Dragon of the North Wind. (Hanzo “kills” Genji)
“But, as time passed and he realized his solitude.”
From this one line of the tale, and correlating to Hanzo and Genji’s story says alot of things about what Hanzo did after the “murder” and how closely this tale really ties into the Shimada Brothers.
Hanzo never left the Shimada immediately after “killing” Genji. He stayed with them and went with business as usual. He tried to move on from the incident. But as time passed, he realized just how guilty and lonely he is from committing the “murder” and it broke him, driving him to leave the clan. I also suspect that the clan members, including the elders were also telling him to just forget about “that embarrassment to the Shimada Clan,” (some words I also suspect were thrown at him when they talked about Genji) And it only added more pressure, guilt, and even anger to Hanzo’s well-being.
I feel very dumb for not making this realization sooner.
Héctor extending his arm to her a little more every passing second like “eh? Eh?? I’m here I can help”
Héctors hopless and yet utterly hopeful smile that maybe, just MAYBE she’ll humor him and he can touch her for all of 2 seconds while he helps her down.
At first I thought adrenaline. Girl just sang and danced with security and a murderer (who she pwned 3x, you go girl) in front of thousands of people. Who wouldn’t get high?
But it wouldn’t explain how it transpired from this:
I just love this move of Ernesto’s so much, ok. He doesn’t just let go of Miguel’s hoodie, he shoves it away from himself. He’s going through a moment of pure rage where he also feels threatened and this movement reflects his state of mind just beautifully. I can’t help but marvel at this sort of thing because there were so many possibilities to go with about this simple gesture but like this, it feels just right. The way movements, gestures and expressions have been animated for this film is simply fantastic to me and I love it with all my heart.
I know a lot of people are reading this as “disapproving”, because Jack is turned away from Gabe, but I think it’s Not Insignificant that Jack is looking at the rows of fallen soldiers he just finished putting flags on. I don’t read this so much as “Jack is opposed to what Gabe is doing” as “Gabe is steadfast in his plan to operate off the books while Jack is left to reflect on how his tether to protocol is accomplishing nothing but racking up casualties.”
Especially how it’s juxtaposed with the text bubble talking about Overwatch’s limits, as well as how Jack doesn’t really at any point in the narrative disapprove of Gabe’s plan, just tells him he can’t “officially” sanction it. To me, at least, this doesn’t communicate a fight, it’s showing the mounting frustration and helplessness that led Jack to break international law and send troops into King’s Row a year later, and eventually become a masked vigilante smashing heads in alleyways after Zurich. I think it certainly communicates a divide, but I see it more as Jack concerned Gabe is going somewhere he can’t follow, and wondering if he wants to follow, than a gesture of hostility.
Let’s talk about the unidentified people on the Rivera family’s ofrenda for a bit. I want to have a go at figuring who’s who.
First of all, there’s these two – an old man who looks remarkably like
Papá
Franco, and a woman who has visibly darker skin than the average of the Rivera family. I’m 99% sure these were Papá Franco’s parents, it’s so easy to see their features in him.
This man seems tall and has a stocky build, rather similar to Abel – they even have the same jaw. That makes me think he was Tía Carmen’s father.
This photo confuses me? It looks very old, but a lot more candid than Imelda and Héctor’s family photo. And I can’t really point out a family member who resembles this lady. Maybe it’s an old family friend who was almost like family to the Riveras and they put her on the ofrenda? Maybe it IS a family member I simply cannot place?
Before the end of the movie, this is the only photo on the ofrenda that is in color. It’s not as crisp and clear as Mamá Coco’s photo, but it doesn’t look too old. I want to say they’re Luisa’s family, if only because there’s no one on the ofrenda that obviously resembles her. I thought at first that they’re Luisa’s grandparents, but the woman looks elderly and the man looks middle-aged at best. Maybe it’s Luisa’s father? Then where would her grandfather be?
I think Ernesto definitely had all kinds of complicated and hidden feelings suddenly rise to the surface in that moment. After all, he and Héctor had spent their entire childhoods together, they had a lot of good memories. If Ernesto’s spent nearly a century trying to forget what he’d done, who knows what kind of nostalgia suddenly blindsided him at seeing Héctor’s picture, the living face he’d gone so many years without seeing.
Of course it couldn’t last too long, Ernesto’s spent too many years lying to himself and others for his facade to crumble that easily, but who knows, maybe for that brief moment, that picture reminded him of the good he’d had, not just of the evil he’d done.