Fast X is an overwhelming movie with a lot of emotional moments. The film runs through four of his stories that are almost completely separate. Dom’s solo investigation into new villain Dante Reyes; Tej, Roman, Han, and Ramsey trying to keep themselves out of society; and Dom’s brother Jacob and son Little Brian on a road trip. And Letty and Cypher must team up to escape from Antarctica’s Blacksite Prison.
The last thread is a weird one. It’s not a big part of the movie. It’s him for only three or four scenes and has nothing to do with other events, so it’s scattered throughout the movie in a way that feels almost random. But what’s more interesting than this thread itself is what it suggests about his Cipher’s future. Are they looking to add Cypher to their family? Yes, that may be true. I don’t know if they are that is But they certainly put themselves in the position to do so.
I’m not sure if that’s the best idea though. The story is already very confusing from a narrative standpoint, and how it treats Cypher could irreparably confuse the core themes of the franchise as well. Let’s break it down.
In Fast and Furious, cyphers came like a thousand wrecking balls. Charlize Theron’s villainous character quickly established himself as the decidedly irredeemable main villain of the Fast and Furious series. She was a clear thematic contrast to Dominic Toretto, a man who couldn’t stop turning her enemies into family, and she was intent on making him submit to her will. There she took his ex-lover Elena and her young son hostage and forced him to fight everyone else he loved.
The film quickly established Cypher’s importance in the series, revealing that villains from the previous two films, Owen Shaw and Moses Jakande, were secretly working for her. By extension, perhaps indirectly through the show, Arturo Braga in the fourth film will also come under her umbrella to some extent. A phantom threat has appeared.
Midway through F8, Cipher cements his evil by reacting rather harshly to Dom for disobeying orders 100% during his mission in New York. She looked Dom straight in the eye and held her son in her arms while her minions executed Elena. This felt pretty final – we can see Dom staring at her bright corpse for a while. It is difficult to understand how or why this was faked. In other words, Elena died because Cypher killed her.
What are Cypher’s plans? Conquer the world. complete confusion. It’s the biggest bad news the series has ever attempted. Fast and Furious 6’s Nightshade device could have left any nation in the world completely defenseless. The Eye of God in Fast and Furious 7 is a global surveillance algorithm that can be found by anyone, anywhere. In F8, she attempts to launch a nuclear weapon that causes war. In F9, she wanted control of Project Aries, which would allow her to hack any computer system on Earth. These are all very bad individually, but Cipher really contributed to the whole shebang by chasing them all.
And finally, just to get the point home, Cypher doesn’t care about anyone but himself. She doesn’t have her friends or her family and she doesn’t want either. She is for her, she is for everyone else –all Others are merely tools used to fulfill her purpose.
Cipher exists as the antithesis of Dom.
Or she did, anyway. It looks like she’s going to start the Cypher arc from scratch, but we’ll find out what she signed up for after the movie Fast X, which featured Dante Reyes, played by Jason Momoa in her place as the main series villain. is difficult.
WARNING: The rest of this article contains many Fast X spoilers.
After a lengthy flashback sequence that adds Dante to the Fast Five climactic heist, Dante infiltrates Cypher’s new secret base and announces that he is in the present. He reveals that he did the same trick on her that she did on Dom in F8 – but since Cypher doesn’t have anyone she loves, Dante instead takes every member of the team’s family. Kidnapped and turned everyone against her. He can steal God’s Eye surveillance technology. He succeeds and tells her men to kill her as he walks out her door.
Cypher struggles to escape and literally walks up to Dom’s house to tell him about Dante. And she is sent to Blacksite Prison in Antarctica. She spends the entire rest of the film there, eventually working with Letty to escape. The film doesn’t see them reunite with the other current main cast members, but they do have someone who picks them up on a submarine at the last minute. It’s Giselle. It was believed to have died at the end of Fast and Furious 6.
All of this leaves Cipher in an ambiguous position. Dante is the new main villain. Cypher and Letty’s team-up was apparently arranged by Tess (Brie Larson), who was clearly portrayed as a superior figure throughout Fast X, and Gisele working for Tess. Probability is high. We also don’t know what Cypher knows, what her relationship with Tess or Giselle is, or if she already knows them personally.
Alarm bells rang in my head every time Cypher appeared on screen in FastX. Is this the beginning of the redemption arc? Are we really going to abandon her story and do Dante’s instead? Or are you preparing for a three-way battle between Dom, Dante and Cypher?
it is impossible to know. Fast X’s cliffhanger is pretty abrupt. It’s the sort of ending you’d expect when shooting two movies back-to-back, like in The Matrix or Pirates of the Caribbean sequels, and it turns out the whole plot is already set. ing. But this is not such a situation. The next film isn’t even close to starting production and is still years away from release. It’s likely they still don’t quite know where they’re going with this, and with the WGA on strike, it may take some time before that happens.
Either way, it’s frustrating and a sign of the incredible corruption at the heart of the series. The Fast and Furious movie is unnecessarily complicated in its plot, but at the same time it rarely commits to any thread in the long run. For example, in a long story in which she had to fake her own death in order to save her girl’s life, effectively raising her as her own daughter, Han cuts out of her dead in her previous work. revived. The girl is neither featured nor mentioned in Fast X.
Worse yet, look at Jacob. Played by John Cena, Dom’s secret brother, this character was created for F9 and has long flashbacks to explain his existence and why no one has ever mentioned him before. Complete with plot. And this time, in Fast X, he can’t co-star with any of the main cast, and is (so far) killed during the final chase. They just played around with the character.
If they treat Dom’s brother like that, what are they doing to Cypher? Judging by the threads that were cut off in the previous film, you can’t help but think she’s steered in some serious direction, too. To be clear, I’m not actually against Cypher Redemption. I’m just worried that their response will be sloppy. For example, Elena reveals that she is still alive, freeing Cypher from the danger of her death. It’s not a redemption arc if it only reveals that they never had to be redeemed. So that explanation is unsatisfactory, nonsense, and serves as another example of the franchise’s recent failure to commit to story.
but what will do Will it be a satisfying arc for Cypher? A three-way fight is probably one of the few options that works in the current situation. Dante is still alive, and obviously there will continue to be problems, but that doesn’t rule out the possibility of Cypher attacking everyone. And this would be a decent thematic trinity – Dom has a good and wholesome family man, Dante has a warped and messed up family man, and a woman (Cypher) who just hates her family. It’s a good group to play against each other.it is not that’s all It’s a good path, but it can also work.
And if they want to redeem Cypher in the usual way of actually earning her, she’ll need to do something big. She’s like, “Sacrifice yourself to save others.” And it’s going to take a lot more character development to make it work. Because she hasn’t yet been characterized as a terrible person in these films.
But after Fast X, it’s hard to believe that director Louis Leterrier, Vin Diesel, and the other creative decision makers around the film will be able to satisfactorily understand Cypher’s situation. “Fast X” must have been very difficult under the circumstances that longtime franchise director Justin Lin left the company after a week of shooting and Leterrier did a hasty rewrite instead, but the finished movie Very disjointed and almost impossible to follow from scene to scene. scene.
But I’ve always liked Leterrier as a director, and if he’s on a project from the start, like with Fast X-2, things could change a lot. This series has been such a big part of my life for the last 20 years that I want to do my best to see it come to an end. I just don’t expect it.
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