He’s Just Had Coffee

In ‘Father, can’t you see I’m burning?’ The death drive in X-Men: The Last Stand, k-punk exposes himself as, not only one of the few people of the planet who enjoyed X-Men 3 but also (correctly in my view) spots a shift from the realistic psychodrama of the previous two to the subtlety of myth.

His fabulous essay spots (with some help) Phoenix and Jean as an obvious Shadow-pair, Charles and Magneto as Apollonian and Dionysian Fathers who both fail, the Queer nature of so much of what goes on with the tremendously powerful teenagers (Angel’s bathroom scene!!!) and has lots to say about Wolverine and Jean.

I’m embarrassed that I’d jumped straight to a very populist “it’s not very good because it had too much action and effects and not enough human psychology” reading of the film. People who know my taste in film rely on me to do better than that.

Anyway, if you’ve yet to see X-Men 3, remember as you watch it: it’s not real, it’s Real!

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