Man of Steel

Saw Man of Steel tonight and I really liked it. And I saw some pretty cool symbolism.

So Superman is not a human right, he’s from another world, but he is raised human, and his real father when speaking to him, says basically- you are just as much of this world as krypton. His father also says, “You will give the people an ideal to strive towards. They will race behind you, they will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join you in the sun. In time, you will help them accomplish wonders.”

That was what really caught my attention, I was like – whoa hold up that’s some pretty deep symbolic theology right there. I think in some respects superman in this movie represents a picture of Christ. He is our hope, the reminder that we can choose Him and through Him we can become good instead of evil, He is our ideal, the One and only whom we are to try to aspire to be like. We’ll fail and mess up, but some day we’ll join Him, and He uses us to accomplish wonders. Thought that was pretty cool.

And there was another part of the movie where he’s fighting one of the krypton lady warriors and she tells him he’ll lose because his morality is his weakness and evolution will always win. I looked at my sister and whispered, “This is gonna be awesome! Theology is gonna kick evolutions tail in this movie!”

I’m sure as I think on it more and watch it again later, more will come to me, but that’s what I got so far.

By the way, I always knew Superman was my favorite for a reason :D

Random, but another good superhero movie with a lot of symbolism is the Green lantern- Will vs. Fear was a pretty powerful concept to think on :)