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A Fantastic Old Guard
ENJOY THE IMMORTAL PLEASURE OF WATCHING CHARLIZE THERON
MIX IT UP ON SCREEN
By Molly Templeton
R
ago. Joe (Marwan Kenzari) and Nicky (Luca Marinelli)
found each other in the Crusades, when they fought on
opposite sides; they’ve been a couple ever since they
stopped fighting.
Deftly, lovingly, Rucka’s screenplay establishes how
much history these four have: They tease and praise each
other, switching effortlessly between languages, fighting
like an eight-armed single being. Prince-Bythewood can
suggest entire lifetimes with close-ups of Theron’s face,
where all her years of love, exhaustion, trust and gratitude
show plainly in every expression. When a new immortal
appears, Andy’s response is mixed. She wants to bring
young, scared Nile (KiKi Layne) into the fold. But she
knows what a burden immortality is.
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ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK’S
ecently, The New York Times ran an
entire article about how enjoyable it is
to watch Charlize Theron fight. Frankly,
it wasn’t long enough. Given how much
I like to watch Theron punch people,
I’d like to read several thousand more
words on the subject.
Instead, I rewatched Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The
Old Guard (Netflix), in which Theron plays an immortal
warrior who, with a small team of other immortals, tries
to do some good in the world by taking out bad guys.
She has centuries of experience, but the villains have
changed over the years. Once, she fought armies. Now,
the enemy is an amoral pharmaceutical CEO who looks
at Andy (Theron) and her team and sees deathless lab
rats. (The movie is based on a comic by Greg Rucka, who
also wrote the screenplay.)
But let’s not get distracted by the plot, which does
what it needs to do in satisfying and even subtle ways.
The draw here is twofold: One, yes, is watching Theron
fight, watching her climb the walls of a tiny airplane
or flip men over her shoulders. The other is the lived-
in found-family feel of Andy’s team. The youngest,
Booker (Matthias Schoenaerts), puts whiskey in his
tea and mourns the loss of his sons, a mere 200 years
This weight — the weight of centuries — fuels The
Old Guard. In Andy and Booker, the years feel real, and
heavy, and hard. And lonely. They’ve lost people; half their
stories are about lost family, whether blood or chosen.
But they can still be surprised. When Nile’s anger and
fear boil up and she throws herself
into a fight with Andy, Theron’s face
is stoic, tired — until it’s not. Until it
lights up with surprise, with delight at
what this new member of her family
is already capable of.
Responsibility and love exist here
in careful balance. Joe and Nicky’s
love balances Booker’s overwhelming
grief; Andy’s sense of purpose, which
only grows stronger throughout the
film, is a counterweight to the wry
practicality with which she approaches
immortality. She has no answers for
Nile’s most basic questions: there is
no “why.” There’s only “what”: What
will you do with your time? Does it
matter if you don’t know how much of it there is?
The Old Guard can be a little on the nose sometimes,
especially in its music choices. When it finally gets around
to a sequence of the whole gang fighting together, I
desperately wished for more of that; the choreography is
stellar character work. Joe and Nicky need more story (if
only this were a series, and we could have whole episodes
of them!). But there’s so much more to like than to correct.
Action films often veer from heroics to hate, with little
room for nuance and little time for forgiveness. The Old
Guard makes that space. Sure, when you’re immortal,
you have more time to learn from your mistakes. But
it’s a thing all of us need the time and the grace to do. ■
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