Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Connect the dots: summer edition (Part 2)


The last paragraph of The New Yorker's super ridiculous take on a summer blockbuster:
..."Mankind is a rope fastened between animal and superman--a rope over an abyss." That is Nietzsche, coiner of the Ubermensch, and in "Thus Spoake Zarathustra" he scorns what he calls "extraterrestrial hopes" in favor of those, rooted on earth, who struggle to overcome the weakness of their own humanity. That is a proper, if perilous, subject for grownup cinema, and I for one have grown tired of supermen, and superwomen, who start with such a flagrant advantage over the rest of us. Mind you, if Superman is such a paragon, how come he wants to save a species so universally dumb that not a single member of it recognizes him when he puts on a pair of glasses?

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