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Do you need a hero?
by Michael (movies profile)
May 26, 2006
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I chose my subject title carefully. We are all in need of a hero... now even more than ever. Recent news has us increasingly disillusioned by our leaders. Often movies provide an outlet, a commentary, a catharsis and yes an escape from these things. But movies of late, such as Star Wars, have really not managed to touch us on a personal level.
In the real world when Empires collide it's not the leaders, the Queens, Dark Lords, Senators or Jedi Counsels in their ivory towers that absorb the brunt of the conflict... it's the poor, the dispossessed, the average man and woman. And it is from among these lowly ranks that our real heroes rise. Ultimately it is the story of these unlikely heroes that Serenity chronicles.
So if you've been longing for a film with an every-man hero... without a ray gun, a light saber or super powers... the type of hero the young Harrison Ford would have played... if you've ever wondered what life for Hans Solo and the Millennium Falcon would have been like if he'd not hooked up with a Princess and her brother... GO SEE SERENITY THIS WEEKEND. |
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