A few weeks ago, our family went and saw Thor, Love and Thunder. Spoiler alert, this post will contain spoilers. If you plan on seeing it and haven’t yet, stop reading now.
It was the first time I had gone to a movie theatre in over four years. Like many cancer patients, I was sheltering in place long before covid.
It was a pretty good movie, although I feel like marvel movies aren’t quite as witty or polished, since Disney bought them. I feel they should have gotten a little more out of drunk Thor and it would have been funnier and more in character if the Guardians of the Galaxy ditched Thor, instead of just leaving.
Anyhow, the movie was a bit bold and took on cancer. Jane Foster has cancer. Stage 4 (make up your own kind of cancer), no treatment will work, and is told to get her affairs into order cancer.
I did think it was funny that her IV in the infusion center wasn’t running. Oh, the things you notice after being in the system. Obviously, they shouldn’t infuse even saline solution for a movie, but they could have had it drip in a bucket on the floor with a bit of creativity. Moot point, just nitpicking.
Thor’s hammer chooses Jane as its new wielder and she is a super hero, healed while in Thor form but still dying. Towards the end of the movie, Jane is really struggling and is taken back to Earth to get hooked up to an IV with chemo that apparently doesn’t work?!?!?! Umm ok? But this time Thor, God of healing, um I mean thunder, is there and it will be different? Forehead slap 🤦🏻.
But WAIT!!! Thor has to leave Jane and go save the day. Jane can’t come because she needs the chemo that not working.
The movie does redeem itself at the end with Jane saying screw this, transforms into super hero Jane and saves the day. She goes out in the blaze of glory and passes away the way she wants to pass. Now, I don’t know about you, but going out in the blaze of glory sounds pretty good for any chronic cancer patient. Overall, it was an entertaining enough movie. I was just happy and grateful to go with my wife and kids to a movie.
Superman was my guy growing up. As kids we would ask each other, if we could have any super hero power, what would it be? I usually picked flying or being invincible. I was thinking about it the other day (random thoughts) and now for sure, I would pick the power of being to heal anyone from anything. Then I could heal you! I can’t think of a better power to have. Mind you, I probably have a bit of a superhero complex 🤪.
Eat your vegetables!
Carrots Over Cancer 