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SUPERMAN RETURNS AND V FOR VENDETTA
I'd be surprised if either of these comic-book-based movies makes many 10 Best lists. But I liked them for the brio with which they worked out their audacious central metaphors. Director Bryan Singer's Man of Steel is a god come to earth and ready to give his life to redeem it — in other words, Jesus Christ Superman. V, the twisted idealist who thinks that he can do civic and political good by blowing up a major city's biggest landmark, is essentially Osama bin Laden with a Happy mask and a cute girlfriend (Natalie Portman). The two figures make fascinating bookends for the anxieties of 2006; and I think somebody should get them together. After all, if Freddy could face off against Jason, why couldn't Supe try teaching liberal humanism to the man with no face?
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