Animadversion: Thor – Reviewed by Kamran Jawaid and Farheen Jawaid

This post is the unedited copy of Thor’s film review, published Sunday May 22, 2011 in our film review column Animadversion (iMAGES on Sunday, Dawn Newspaper). The link to the published version can be found at the end of the post.

* Correction appended on June 10th 2011. Previously published version cited Odin as “Old-Father”, and not “All-Father”.  Blame the mistake on a bad ear-day.

Shakespeare, Shakespeare Oh, Where Art Thou?

By Mohammad Kamran Jawaid

Let’s talk about “Thor” from the villain’s angle: People always said that he has a predilection for mischief, but Loki (Tom Hiddleston, looking every bit like Iago from Shakespeare’s Othello) has conflict weighing on his immortal soul. To betray or not to betray, his expression asks in not as many words.