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7/21/2025, 10:33:31 PM
>Conservatives should realize how Gunn veers into supporting open borders. He remakes Superman into a figure of the invasion that Biden accomplished via executive order: To Gunn, Superman represents the tragically misunderstood and noble immigrant — “it is mostly a story, “he adds, “that says basic human kindness is a value and is something we have lost.” He defies real-life experience of immigration. That’s why Gunn’s narrative skips the legacy of Superman (Kal-El) sent by his father Jor-El from the planet Krypton. Snyder had evoked Judeo-Christian biblical legend, but Gunn invokes the namby-pamby sedition of the NGOs that facilitated the border invasion.
>Gunn made his deviousness explicit: “This Superman does seem to come at a particular time when people are feeling a loss of hope in other people’s goodness.” That “loss of hope” Gunn refers to matches the loss of trust due to media mendacity and betrayal by elected officials. Consider how the antagonism between Superman and archenemy Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) becomes a proxy war — itself an allegory for the Ukrainian-Russia conflict that Gunn’s script perverts into a vague, nut-brained Middle East war between the fictional American ally Boravia and a nearby country called Jarhanpur. It streamlines the Ukraine-Russia war for dimwits who can’t think through the implications of obvious weapons trade and money-laundering.
>Gunn made his deviousness explicit: “This Superman does seem to come at a particular time when people are feeling a loss of hope in other people’s goodness.” That “loss of hope” Gunn refers to matches the loss of trust due to media mendacity and betrayal by elected officials. Consider how the antagonism between Superman and archenemy Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) becomes a proxy war — itself an allegory for the Ukrainian-Russia conflict that Gunn’s script perverts into a vague, nut-brained Middle East war between the fictional American ally Boravia and a nearby country called Jarhanpur. It streamlines the Ukraine-Russia war for dimwits who can’t think through the implications of obvious weapons trade and money-laundering.
7/13/2025, 10:40:49 AM
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/07/superman-under-the-gunn/
The king has spoken
The king has spoken
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