Yes, I have just seen this, and, as per my once-in-a-decade expectations, it was awesome, and brilliant! Weirdly, I was the only person in the cinema: does nobody go to see intelligent, and/or important movies these days? (Guess I just answered my own question!). As suggested by the title, with its Nietzschean overtones of the Ubermensch, this movie keeps challenging you every step of the way, Is this the line you are not willing to cross? Is this the line? Is this line? and, perhaps surprisingly, or perhaps not, I found myself willingly keeping up, crossing those mental lines and boundaries... It was really suspenseful in that way, too, because you honestly had no idea what was coming next (so no spoilers!), and the heroine, Evelyn (Rebecca Hall) was every bit as strong as the hero Will, maybe stronger, because she had to persevere despite many moments of doubt, vulnerability and lack of faith. I found it not a mere coincidence that the heros name was Will, when the first thing he asked for after the transition, was more power(!). But is that not the purpose of our being here at all, not only to survive, but also to *expand, to evolve, to influence*? Mankind has always tried, throughout history, to create its gods, and now technology has certainly placed this in our hands as a very real possibility, in the not-too-distant future, which might even heal, not only individual sufferers, but also the planet as a whole! Would seeing the Lego movie after this paradigm-shifting and epoch-making film be somewhat of an anticlimax, a let down, having once climbed the mountain and seen the promised land? B|
Posted on: Sat, 17 May 2014 04:21:46 +0000
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