James Gunn's Superman (David Corenswet) is the ultimate immigrant--a visitor from another planet. Like many illegal immigrants, he's forced to veil his identity.The resultant disguise is an ingenious way of looking at one of comic book history's famous doppelgängers, Clark Kent. Gunn's Superman is an almost too obvious political allegory with Boravia (Russia) and Jarhanpur (Ukraine) in a conflict engineered by Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult). But it's the virtual reality graphics that tell the story. Superman is a computer game in a surrealist Dali landscape. Note Metamorpho's floating head. Is this hyperactive Krypto, Un Chien Andalou (1929)? In his latest iteration, Superman is in danger of losing his DACA status until the Justice Gang, The Green Lantern (Nathan Fillion), Terrific Man Ed Gathegi) and Hawkgirl (Isabella Merced) intervene. Dream on. (edit note: what constitutes the modernity of the movie is not the advanced computer simulations, rather the ambivalence of the relation between Clark and Lois).
read "Luggage Tags" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star
and read "The El" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star
and also read "Punk" by Francis Levy, Vol.1 Brooklyn
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