LOGAN
Why do we love Wolverine so much...
Hint : it is not because of Hughes Jackman's charismatic persona, despite it being effective... We love Logan because like him, we feel vulnerable... In pain... Victim of a constant influx of inflicting scars... Human, too human.
From the GetGo, as soon as the first camera shot exposes a vulnerable/ageing Wolverine and the music score strikes a tragic cord, we know that we are in for a rough journey...
Old age... Self-destructive tendencies... Senile... The end of innocence... Pain at its raw, elemental level...
In a day and age where we, the audience, are swamped with a non-stop influx of cheap superhero movies, it has become a necessity to slow down the process, indulge in the usage of longer camera shots, in an emotionally embracive music score... In Trump's America, it becomes necessary to go back to the roots, to revisit that primary relationship of man with land... A passage in time that is gracefully executed in the movie by the portrait of a black American family instilled with simple values ; a foundation that alas escapes the Wolverine who refuses to settle down by fear of always losing/exposing loved ones.
Logan is executed with intent : each sparse action scene is charged with emotions, with an astonishing anger that is unleashed in an surge of unprecedented fury.
But when it comes down to it, the ultimate battle will always be
A must see movie.