{"id":5859,"date":"2017-03-10T18:20:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T00:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=5859"},"modified":"2017-03-10T18:20:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T00:20:28","slug":"logan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=5859","title":{"rendered":"Logan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"So, another X-Men continuity movie[1]. Logan<\/a>\u00a0is set in 2029, which is somehow only 12 years from now<\/span>. I think there are maybe two or three things I can say about this movie, without getting into territory I\u2019d rather avoid. I mean, it\u2019s basically impossible to review anything without spoilers[2], so I always try to limit myself to what you\u2019d know within 5 minutes<\/span> (or 1-2 chapters) anyway<\/em>, but sometimes it\u2019s more than that, and this is one of those times.<\/p>\n

The first thing is, this is a movie that doesn\u2019t fuck around. Wolverine has always killed people, which is unusual enough for a comic book setting, but he\u2019s never killed people the way he would<\/em>\u00a0kill people, you know what I mean? Here, he definitely does. Which is useful as a calibration tool for the rest of the movie, is my point. The second thing, I\u2019ve already said in one of the footnotes anyway, so if you are trying to avoid spoilers more than I am (which maybe you should!), you can miss that easily. The third thing is that the movie is about something. I think it\u2019s been a while since the theme of a film has shone strongly enough for me to care about mentioning it. (Or maybe they\u2019re always so obvious as to not be worth mentioning?)<\/p>\n

Anyway, this is a movie about responsibility. It is the lens through which nearly every character views things. Like, I don\u2019t know if everyone is right about what responsibility has or has not accrued to them, nor whether everyone is right about how they do or do not discharge that responsibility. But it permeates every decision, and it\u2019s a strong theme for a strong movie. Which reminds me of a fourth thing I can definitely say, which is that the three lead roles are acted exceptionally well. Nobody will look at this movie when the 2017 retrospective awards season comes along, but I think maybe they will have made a mistake, when they do not.<\/p>\n

[1] As opposed to the rest of Marvel continuity, since the Disney people made a deal with the Sony people to share Spider-Man, so now there are only two such continuities extant.
\n[2] I picked the poster that most reminded me of The Last of Us<\/a>, because the movie put me in mind of that. Which is a spoiler if you\u2019ve played that game or know of it, but explaining that the correlation is by no means perfect, or even necessarily strong, would itself be a spoiler. This is hard, is all I\u2019m saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, another X-Men continuity movie[1]. Logan\u00a0is set in 2029, which is somehow only 12 years from now. I think there are maybe two or three things I can say about this movie, without getting into territory I\u2019d rather avoid. I mean, it\u2019s basically impossible to review anything without spoilers[2], so I always try to limit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[464,446,38,430,22],"class_list":["post-5859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-action","tag-drama","tag-marvel","tag-science-fiction","tag-superheroes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5861,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859\/revisions\/5861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}