This scene is still so damn disturbing. Here’s this person with all this strength and ability to kill people like a machine and he’s being taunted. Alexander Pierce asking him if he wants milk when he knows damn well there’s no answer to that since the Winter Soldier doesn’t get to want things. That’s how freaking confident he is with the control he has over him.
Honestly, this scene always bothered me so much. Because look at Bucky’s face. He’s TRYING to process the question (cuz you see his eyes tracking Pierce and then his expression changes when he furrows his brow). He’s not just blank here, which is what I would’ve expected, but whatever they did to “program” him, he’s clearly still able to understand the question and process it, but he looks like he knows it’s a trick question. I wonder how many times he chose the wrong answer (which I assume is both “yes” and “no”) before his body remembers NOT to give an answer at all.
And the fact Pierce says it so casually, like it’s his son/friend/guest/PERSON visiting and he’s being “hospitable” is just so…revolting. It’s like he’s too lazy to bother changing his behavior or charismatic mask for Bucky. (Almost a “oh, being villainous in one situation and polite and nice in another situation is too exhausting. Why not taunt him and kill 2 birds with one stone?”)
