Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Broken Necks and higher grounds

Realism. Going back to Batman Begins, for some reason Hollywood has wanted a hyper realistic version of characters. By removing the extraordinary and extreme features of characters it will make it where people can relate to the characters. Now the problem with that is some characters don’t need that. Batman that can work. He’s human. So that makes sense. But Superman it doesn’t. He’s an alien. With the powers of a god. I don’t need a brooding Superman. Man of Steel is a good movie. It allows for certain things. You see the struggle with Kal-El. You see him try to find a place in the world. You see him suffer when he kills Zod. The back lash with that one scene is outrageous. You have Superman fighting a trained Killer. As Zod “I exist only to protect Krypton. That is the sole purpose for which I was born. And every action I take, no matter how violent or how cruel, is for the greater good of my people. And now... I have no people. My soul, that is what you have taken from me!” He wasn’t going to stop. The quote is this Let me tell you something. I've had to watch a lot of bad things happen to good people. Sometimes terrible things have to be done. Inevitably, each and every one of us will have to face a moment where we have to commit that horrible sin...and if we flinch in that moment, if we hesitate for one second, if we let our conscience get in the way, you know what happens?  People die. So get off the of your high moralistic grounds.