The trailer, aided by Junkie XL’s operatic score, entices audiences with the promise of an epic, one that will both wax poetically about superheroes without our modern world and deliver a visual smorgasbord of action sequences. We have to.” Even as the world falls in disarray with the coming of Darkseid (Ray Porter), and the forces of Apokolips, led by Steppenwolf (Ciaran Hinds), there is a sense of grandeur and hope that comes with seeing DC Comics’ heroes, Batman (Affleck), Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), Aquaman (Jason Momoa), Cyborg (Ray Fisher), The Flash (Ezra Miller), and of course, Superman (Henry Cavill) join together to become something greater than they could be individually. So how do we correct that? How do we answer for the mistakes and inadequacies of the past, while preventing the future from fulfilling all of our worst nightmares? This is where we are socially and politically, but this is also where superheroes appear to be in this film.ĭespite those looming questions, there is a pervasive sense of triumph throughout the new trailer, one that accounts for past tragedies following Bruce Wayne’s optimistic final monologue from BvS, “we can do better. We’ve given into fear for too long, and as a result, we let evil into our home. If Man of Steel and BvS were 9/11 and post-9/11 metaphors respectively, concerned with American xenophobia and right-wing solutions, then, as evidenced by this latest trailer, Justice League is exploring our contemporary situation. I’d argue that Zack Snyder’s Justice League appears to be exactly the film we need right now, as America and the world grows more divided. For as much criticism as Snyder has gotten for the perception of his films being “dark and gritty,” it has felt to me, since Man of Steel, that the director was building to something honest and hopeful, examining the way in which we understand our own humanity, either by giving into fear or pushing past it.
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