REVIEW: The Avengers takes superhero movies to a new level Alyssa Rosenberg’s take. Read her full review: “ In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, superhero movies like Spider-Man 2, with its famous sequence of New York City subway passengers...

REVIEW: The Avengers takes superhero movies to a new level

Alyssa Rosenberg’s take. Read her full review:

In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, superhero movies like Spider-Man 2, with its famous sequence of New York City subway passengers lifting up a fallen Peter Parker, were first about what other people had done to us and our capacity to recover. In The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan’s Batman became a representative of the terrible things we’d do to ourselves and the compromises we’d make to fight back against an external threat. The Avengers takes a third path, positing superheroes as the people who will stand firm both against terrorists and our own darkest impulses and those of the people in whom we’ve invested official governmental power. They’ll be there when we need them, but they aren’t entrenching themselves, amassing power and growing corrupt.

Now we’re even MORE psyched to see this, if that were possible.


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    good review +1
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    Excited.
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    Forreal. ^
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