Consider it a spoiler for the squeamish: by the time the first act of Cate Shortland’s “Black Widow” has wrapped, Marvel Cinematic Universe fans should prepare to be walloped by the kind of gritty violence not often found in the franchise’s films and series.
In short, prepare for not only broken bones, but for unflinching shots of said crushed and snapped cartilage.
And that’s before one character snaps a foe’s wrist like a twig.While Cate Shortland’s film is rated PG-13 like the majority of its franchise brethren, “Black Widow” does push the envelope when it comes to its depiction of on-screen violence and fighting sequences in new ways.
As Shortland told IndieWire during a recent interview, that level of realistic — at least for an MCU title — violence was always part of her pitch for the film, an element that goes hand in hand with
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