Avengers (2012)
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It was good although I got stuck at one moment where Loki went a little philosophical and explained the hypocrisy behind the term 'freedom'. I believe he is right as his thinking aligns with Spinoza's determinism.
"That humans presume themselves to have free will, is a result of their awareness of appetites while being unable to understand the reasons why they want and act as they do."
So for him, human behaviour is fully determined, with freedom being our capacity to know we are determined and to understand why we act as we do. So freedom is not the possibility to say "no" to what happens to us but the possibility to say "yes" and fully understand why things should necessarily happen that way. And we can only understand once we recognize the power that determines and bow down to it.