Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Superman Returns (2006)

Luthor gets hold of extraterrestrial rocks that multiply in size under certain conditions (when wet?) and creates the seed of a new continent that would override the American one. Superman fights the evil, with help from Lane and her present boyfriend. There is also a kid.

An allegory for cancer and its cure. The love troubles seem to stem from misunderstandings. Both entities -- misunderstandings and cancer -- are little things that, left to their own devices, may grow into catastrophic proportions, and here is the structural unity of the work. Like many (post?) modern films it is dominated by a weird blue-grayish tonality, and my theory is that the trend is to make live-action films look more and more like computer animations and these in turn look more and more like live-action films, until there will be no way to distinguish one from the other.

Seen mostly dubbed in Portuguese.

Rating: 30

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