Alita: the eyes of a beast of prey.
The new film by James Cameron, "Alita, Battle Angel," is clunky, at best. Some creative scenery, some fascinating visual details but, the rest, well, it makes little sense. A classic failure of science fiction movies: cartoonish characters, a plot that doesn't go anywhere, clumsy motivations, silly bad guys, all that.
But Alita, well, she keeps the whole movie together. She is not cartoonish, she is perfect in her role. We recognize her. We know who she is from the scene in which she takes a battle posture facing the giant mechanical crab. It is her, she can only be her. Five thousand years after that the Sumerian Priestess Enheduanna told her story, she is back: Inanna, the warrior goddess fighting the giant dragon called Ebih.
Lady of blazing dominion
Clad in dread
Riding on fire-red power
Inanna
Holding a pure lance
Terror folds in her robes
Flood storm-hurricane adorned
She olts out in battle
Plants a standing shield on the ground
Great Lady Inanna
Battle planner
Foe smasher
(translation by Betty De Shong Meador)
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