I watched a movie. [Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom]

Since I had seen the previous Aquaman movie,
I was finally able to watch the sequel.

First of all, Princess Mera is way too beautiful,
and Arthur is so cool,
plus, Arthur's dad is cool too.

With a child born to Mera and Arthur,
Arthur has taken on the mission of connecting the land and the sea,
while building a happy family.

Family and kingdom.
Even within the land alone it's difficult,
but I felt like I could see the hardship Arthur faces living in two different worlds: the sea and the land.

He wasn't raised with the goal of becoming a king in the first place,
so the job of "king" seemed a bit boring to Arthur,
and I felt like he was more suited to fighting than ruling a country.

Meanwhile, due to attacks by Black Manta,
global warming is steadily progressing,
leading to a situation where both the land and the sea could collapse.

It was cool how Arthur came to save Mera when she was about to be killed,
but Mera is so strong, so seeing her almost get defeated
was so bad for my heart that I actually gasped out loud.

To protect the kingdom, he borrowed his brother's power,
and seeing the brothers fight together was cool.

The scene that left a particularly strong impression
was the island where plants and animals had grown giant due to global warming.
The CG was so amazing,
but the giant insects were just too gross.
People who hate bugs shouldn't watch it.
Since the carnivorous plants were also huge,
seeing giant plants eating giant insects
was an incredible, powerful visual.
I'm watching it on a subscription service on my small iPad screen, but
if I had seen this in a movie theater,
let alone in 4D, I bet it would have been super intense.

Also, there was a scene where they ate cockroaches,
and that was, yeah.
That was tough.
I don't eat cockroaches.
Arthur told his brother that people on land eat them,
but that's pretty impossible.

When Arthur's son was kidnapped by Black Manta,
and everyone went to save him,
thanks to the doctor protecting him somehow,
everyone was saved safely,
and Arthur's brother (sorry, I forgot his name)
didn't give in to the dark magic,
so the sea kingdom was protected,
and I was moved by both individual strength and the power of brotherhood.

I was sad that Vulko didn't appear,
wondering if he had died,
but it was a really great story.

In the end, Arthur was cool for trying to properly fulfill
his role of connecting the land and the sea.
He's a very funky king,
since he's uniting the country in a way that's never been done before.

Jason Momoa is cool.

Personally, what I found strange was
the "Necrus",
which was the lost kingdom and also the kingdom of darkness.
With "dark" and "nekura" (gloomy/introverted),
isn't that too dark? lol
Wait, is Nereus gloomy? lol
That's what I thought.
Well, it's not based on Japanese, so it doesn't matter,
but "~us" sounds like something that would be attached to an ancient country,
so I just let it slide, thinking it might mean something like a country built by Nereus.
DC Comics often relate to Greek mythology,
and I think Aquaman, Wonder Woman, and Shazam
are completely derived from that,
so I looked it up again.

With my research skills, I couldn't find the etymology of Necrus,
but I did find information about Nereus.
Nereus is a sea god from Greek mythology,
the son of Pontus (the sea) and Gaia (the earth)apparently.

This is so much like Arthur, isn't it?
Could Nereus also have had a mission to connect the land and the sea...?
That's what I ended up thinking.

I think the connection between DC Comics and Greek mythology
is quite interesting,
so I want to research it thoroughly,
but first, I don't have any knowledge about Greek mythology,
so I think I'll start by studying that slowly.

To all the experts out there, please teach me various things.