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movie review - X-Men: First Class

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Only the incredibly self-serious X-Men franchise could start a superhero movie with a scene from a Nazi prison camp. They're obviously trying to ground the fantastical world of super-powered mutants in a historical context. With the underlying themes of these movies are intolerance and persecution, so there are few historical choices that are going to resonate so well with an audience.

Having set the tone, we move on to various times and places but the showdown between mutants and their allies versus literal fascists is set.

I enjoyed the visuals, the treatment of the subject matter, the way things moved. It all boils down to a fist-fight, of course, because it's a superhero movie, but until then there's plenty of good material.

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