Obligatory disclaimer: real life still sucks for all sorts
of reasons. For a more specific explanation, see the previous entry. Now, about
the latest animated Superman movie – the Red Son, (as opposed to the Red Sun
and the Rad Son labels that I have seen on YouTube since yesterday).
…Ok, what about it?
It is one of the more depressing Superman and DC stories
ever, one where Superman grows up in the U.S.S.R., (as opposed to the U.K. or
in the darkest Africa, which are also DC comic stories, incidentally), has
interactions with Bizarro, a variant Barman, Wonder Woman, a Green Lantern (Hal
Jordan) and so on, and mows down the opposition, no sweat. Pause?
Yeah, the live action Justice League movie had something
similar, only it was so bad, that it was actually funny, (when it was not being
so lackluster that it was insipid instead. Cough Infinity War rip-off cough). SRS,
on the other hand, is none of those things, it is actually well put together,
and it is somewhat sad. Violent too, for an animated movie, even more so than
the actual comic was.
True, I am not the biggest fan of DC and it has been a long
time since I have read the SRS comic, but there are some differences between it
and the movie. More importantly, reading the comic is not important to watching
the movie, and the movie is…depressing, straightforward, simple and well made,
from the technical side of things. And-?
And it is the simplicity that is the defining point of SRS –
usually DC can do convoluted about as well as Marvel does, Disney baking or
not. Here, conversely, everything is going from point A to point B, which
concludes with Superman apparently finding a possible ‘redemption’ after his
stunt as the flagman of communism. What?
…Here is the thing. SRS is not exactly a propaganda piece,
because for any propaganda piece to work, the state/country in which it is
released needs consistency, and right now, the US is in the state of flux,
because of the upcoming elections. Nobody knows as to who will win, but the
safe bet is the Donald, in no small part because the Democrats, a), can’t get
their shit together, and b), now that it is coming together, the forerunner will
be either Bloomberg, a variant of the Donald, or Sanders, a social-democrat,
and neither man is very popular with the rest of the Democratic party’s
leaders. Will they opt to instead give the U.S. to the Donald for another 4
years while they try to find someone better? Odds are very good on this one
too. Will they continue to bitch about the Donald, even though they aren’t all
that better than he is, (as surprising as that sounds)? Yes. Did I mention that
real life sucks? Do bears shit in the woods?
Getting back to SRS, again, it isn’t intended to be
propaganda, but you have to admit that its’ timing isn’t very good, and given
that we’re talking about the Western society here, at least someone there will
think so and act accordingly with unpredictable results – but for the majority,
SRS will be just another DC animated movie and as such it will fade into
obscurity, either becoming a classic or not. Go, team DC! Another solid hit for
you, really. Anything else?
Sadly, no, not this time. See you all soon instead!
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