Caution: This article contains spoilers for the "Superman" by Jameseshes Gun.
Immediately from the first scenes of The new Jamesei Gun "Superman" film, We know what the villain of the film, Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hult), is. Of course, Luter hates Superman (David Corensvet) and used a staff of computer experts, Sitix supervisors and a masked vigil from his own to pamper the steel man in the ground. Before the film began, Luter knows the secrets of Cryptonite and carefully studied Superman's combat moves, allowing him to best superhero in hand in hand (through a remote controlled villain ultraman).
Lex Luthor is also portrayed as a tech billionaire with his hands deep in the world media. There are short edits in Superman who show experts in parrotal anti-superhand rhetoric on a social media page similar to Twitter. Leave does not have to possess social media, but it is easy to see the parallels drawing Gun between Luter and Elon Musk. According to the world built by Gun, the Daily Planeta is one of the few remaining news that is interested in heavy hitting, honest journalism. It remains untouched by the reduction in the influence of Luter.
This deals with the sale of Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan) and her Daily Planet compatriots who are investigating the shaded luxurious involvement of a war that will be erupted between fictional countries of Boravia and Jarhanpur. Although it remains unclear how, LATHOR certainly manipulates the conflict for his favor. Superman's ability to stop wars is bad with one of the many schemes of Luter. By the end of the film, Lois and her associates will reveal the truth, and Luter's villain will be carried out in the public eye. It is later ashamed, his evils are now naked for the whole world to see him.
This, unfortunately, is the least real part of Superman. And this is a film with a green lantern in it. As we all know we know for the last 15 years, using the truth to embarrass the wicked billionaire has no effect.
A clear and present impact on the danger
Gun lends from a long tradition of screening for the power of truth in a dishonest world. We can recall Philip Noye's thriller in 1994 "Pure and Present Danger", Jackec Ryan's second film starred by Harrison Ford. In that film, Ryan revealed that the president (Donald Moffat), unknown to the public, was involved in a shadow war in South America. The plot reflected several scandals that rounded out the Ronald Reagan administration. The "clear and present danger" climbed with Jackack Ryan revealing the truth and faced the president. At first, he is defensive: "How do you dare to bark me! I am the president of the United States!" Jackack Ryan, a resolutely moral man, just shoots with "how I dare youSir! "The catharsis landed.
The unspoken outcome is that the truth is so attractive, so terrible, so extremely irreversible that the president will have to apologize for it, openly recognizing his shame on the matter. Maybe he will even change his ways or resign in shame. This is the same implication that Gun relies on Superman. If Lex's evil is brought to light by the press, then he will have to recognize his evil, express real shame and return to the shadows.
Of course, this kind of twist only works in a world with shame. Thanks to the brazen lies, criminal actions and the sumptuous evils of an unnamed administration, we now know that shame does not exist anymore. When crimes are committed outdoors, no journalistic discoveries will prevent abuses. We live in a world where the president can only say that a negative story about him, however true, is "false news". He can also, additionally, say that the story is true, but whatever, he did it, and he would not apologize.
In 2025, the truth no Longers is released
If Gun wanted to tell a more accurate story of the modern media landscape, he would know that Lex Luthor would have the opportunity to manipulate stories in his favor. Or, at the very least, bury the daytime planet in the sea of online BS or, perhaps the most precise, say that the story was true, but that it was good, in fact, and that is what the American people want to do Luther. You can see this dynamic play every day with Elon Musk, who bought Twitter.com and turned it into a shelter for extremely right -wing break. You can know how his Ai Chatbot, Grock, recently praised Hitler For his genocidal ideas. Musk has yet to face any consequences for this kind of things and probably not.
We can recall the story of Aredard Yates Sexton, the journalist who was considering Russian influence in the 2016 Donald Trump campaign, something that denied the Trump Camp. Sexton was considering secret meetings between Trump's team and Russian oligarchs for a year and began to find real ties. Then, one morning, Donald Trump, Runior openly admitted on Twitter that yes, they met with the Russians. Was it a conflict of interest? Of course, Trump didn't care. He will only be corrupt. "I ... I worked on this story for a year ... and ... he just ... he tweeted it," Sexton wrote.
These days, the fantasy that a journalist can attack and disarm a villain with the truth feels cunning and dating. JameSeims Gun's "Superman" can be a silly fantasy for supernatural powerful foreignersPocket Dimensions, Giant Monsters and Flying Dogs, but the most unusual fantasy is that modern journalism would have the power to overthrow a villain as an alien. It's a comforting imagination, of course, but it makes Superman feel like it comes from a former, more innocent era. We may want journalists to have the power to download the powerful, but that kind of things only works in a world of cartoons.
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