There are several remarkable images in “X-Men: Apocalypse”, but one has been charged with particularly much importance and urgency: It shows Eric Lehnsherr aka Magneto (Michael Fassbender) in the Auschwitz extermination camp, that place where once his family assassinated and he became aware for the first time of its own mutation. His offering utilizes magnetometers now to lift in an infernal feat the death factories from their foundations and completely flatten.
There are those iconographically as ideologically daring moments in which the qualities of the movie adaptations of “X-Men” comics show: For director Bryan Singer ties with Magneto’s return to Auschwitz not only intently to the opening sequence of his first film via the mutant superhero from 2000 on, he also tears again, reflects the still fiercely disputed boundary between high and pop culture.To make the “X-Men” in the context of various comic book adaptations unquestionably the franchise with the most complex narrative, which also distinguished by historical consciousness and the courage to socio-political comment. In the pursuit of persecuted mutants to acceptance reflects the great emancipation movements of the 20th century and repeatedly negotiated fundamental questions of human existence. “X-Men: Apocalypse” is this a narration continues, the “X-Men: First Class” began in the idealistic departure days of the Kennedy administration (2011), and subsequently in “X-Men: Days of Future Past” ( 2014) illustrated the paranoia of the seventies.
apocalyptist versus assimilated
now you are in 1983, and thus arrived at the Reagan era. Despite selfish “Me Generation”, the Cold War and the nuclear threat ubiquitous believes Charles Xavier / Professor X (James McAvoy) continue to peaceful coexistence of mutant and residual humanity. While Xavier in his boarding youthful wearers of the X gene provides a refuge, his dearest friend and fiercest opponent Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto has renounced radical freedom struggle and lives undetected a fragile family idyll with his wife and child in Poland. The freethinking Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) in turn has eluded the influence of its two unequal mentors and helps alone needy otherness.
be your all existences but by the awakening of a powerful mutant (Oscar Issac) shocked the millennia ago godlike prevailed among many titles, and now under the meaningful name Apocalypse in the war against the people and their presence attracts. A fatal event drives a traumatized Magneto in the arms of the designated World destroyer, meanwhile Professor X must prepare himself with his inexperienced students for a battle of global proportions.
The setting for a spectacular confrontation between apocalyptic and assimilated in the mutant community is accordingly enormous. And as great is the prominent cast of the film. Besides Fassbender, McAvoy and Lawrence return and Nicholas Hoult as Beast back, Evan Peters as Quicksilver and Rose Byrne as CIA agent Moira Mac Taggart. These additional key figures in the comic book for the first time or re-introduced, including Cyclops (Tye Sheridan), Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit-McPhee) and Jean Grey (Sophie Turner). Thus, only some of the parties are called, and ensure, as in the previous films sometimes more, sometimes less surprising cameo appearances of other stars from the X-Men universe for rapture at the fans.
Trauma and comforting reminder
Given this human throng, it is all the more impressive that the act does not flag in samplings of superheroes. With plenty of attention to contemporary decor Singer staged a spectacle that changes masterfully between elegiac, almost contemplative passages and fast-paced effect sequences. It is a reliable strength of his X-Men movies that action scenes are never an end in itself, but rather furious expression of the inner constitution and conflicts of the characters.
The ongoing dispute between Professor X and Magneto also determined this time the action and designed to ambivalent than ever. Professor X advocates vehemently for enlightenment and progress, but he begins to fade in of arguments in a hostile world, the seemingly never accept the other, but can be brutally discard. On the other hand can be perfidious recurring suffering the furious Magneto in human civilization and their supposed achievements only testimonies of barbarism see – like a rigorously narrowed reading of Walter Benjamin’s critique of culture, for the film finds compelling images – which he extinguish together with the own pain will
but the memory can magneto not pay off, regardless of devastating maelstrom he unleashed. It keeps the trauma alive, but in her their mutations is also unexpected consolation, as the X-Men both boon and bane are. And it is the essence elliptical comic tales, back in the return time and again to the origin and start anew. Between retribution and reconciliation performs “X-Men: Apocalypse” this motion with stylistic verve and emotional power: the next doomsday, he is sure to come
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“X-Men: Apocalypse”
USA 2016
director: Bryan Singer
script: Simon Kinberg
Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac, Sophie Turner, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Olivia Munn
production: Marvel Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox film Corporation
rental: Fox Germany
length: 144 minutes
Rated: from 12 years
Start: 19 May 2016
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