The time has come for the return of The Siren!
Dharma, if you think this is a popcorn movie, what does that make "Mama Mia!" (besides a steaming pile of crap)?
This isn't your typical mindless comic book film. It makes you think about the psychology of terrorism, the delicate balance between effectively fighting evil and losing your soul, and the desperate need to trust your fellow humans to do right when their collective ids are screaming that they need to do wrong to survive.
The term "zeitgeist" is too often thrown around when discussing popular culture, but this film encapsulates the struggle for the collective identity of the United States since 9/11 without condescending to provide a clear-cut answer. It's clearly not escapist entertainment (though the time did fly by), and its makers have enormous balls to take a comic book franchise film and use it to pose troubling questions about how we view ourselves as individuals and as a society when the mirror's reflection isn't the flattering image we expect it to be.
Dharma, if you think this is a popcorn movie, what does that make "Mama Mia!" (besides a steaming pile of crap)?
This isn't your typical mindless comic book film. It makes you think about the psychology of terrorism, the delicate balance between effectively fighting evil and losing your soul, and the desperate need to trust your fellow humans to do right when their collective ids are screaming that they need to do wrong to survive.
The term "zeitgeist" is too often thrown around when discussing popular culture, but this film encapsulates the struggle for the collective identity of the United States since 9/11 without condescending to provide a clear-cut answer. It's clearly not escapist entertainment (though the time did fly by), and its makers have enormous balls to take a comic book franchise film and use it to pose troubling questions about how we view ourselves as individuals and as a society when the mirror's reflection isn't the flattering image we expect it to be.
I'm excited we're going to see this for our friends b-day Tuesday night after
dinner.
