Everyone is talking about the tragedy of "Manchester by the Sea". Isn't it true that the "Wolverine" series is even more directly miserable?
In the first two parts, Uncle Wolf is already considered a vicious villain. Whoever he loves will die, and whoever he touches will die. The pervasive apocalyptic mood in this film is equivalent to the scene left behind after a ton of sad liquid evaporated for 24 hours.
According to the Marvel timeline, "Wolverine 3" tells the story of the mutantkind after they were exhausted in the war.
The "X Academy", the Garden of Eden for special humans, has long since ceased to exist. Caliban, who made a fortune by selling information about mutants, has lost his livelihood now.
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Uncle Wolf was poisoned, his healing ability faded, his eyes were quick and his mind was blind, and every time he used his ultimate move, he lost half his life. He had to rely on the online ride-hailing business to support himself,
In his later years, the hero could not live in peace even in Mexico, and lived in an abandoned factory to hide from the world.
Wolverine originally wanted to make a fortune and buy a ship to take the professor on a voyage. He never expected that he would meet his "daughter", the clone X-23, while taking a long-distance job.
She was a stronger version of Wolverine's genes and was raised in a research institute in Mexico as a killing machine. Like other genetically copied children, she has a violent personality.
The nurse in the clinic took them out and wanted to give them the Eden in the comics to find other X-men.
After the nurse died, sending X-23 to Eden where she wanted to go became Uncle Wolf’s biggest task in this part.
The goal of the whole story is very simple. Uncle Wolf, a tired middle-aged man who is tortured by aging, illness, and poverty, is forced to go on the road with his young and old, and sends X-23 to Colorado.
The director himself said that this is like a mutant version of "Little Miss Sunshine."
Compared with the previous X-Men series, which had simple plots, big bosses attacking each other, and special effects showing off everywhere, this one has few big scenes, more close combat, and the scenes are extremely realistic.
It is more like a road movie with the character style of a Western movie, with a bloody setting sun, desolate Gobi, and a chilling atmosphere.
The emotional focus is on how the violent lolita and the biological Wolverine get along and understand each other.
At this point, it is actually more like "This Killer is Not Too Cold", like the story of Leon and Mathilde.
How did the middle-aged killer and the tortured little girl, two people from society, support each other and become relatives.
Compared with the use of super powers, more plot is devoted to how Uncle Wolf has no choice but to deal with the trouble caused by the old and the young.
Because of his old age and intermittent amnesia, Professor .
X-23 has been trained as a machine since he was a child. He is used to killing when he sees it, is afraid of leaving, is autistic and suspicious, never speaks, and starts killing if anything goes wrong or feels dangerous.
Taking two patients on the road who don’t know when they will have an attack is extremely difficult.
This is probably what makes the movie good. In addition to the sad background of the death of a loved one and the urgent plot of being hunted along the way, the script also lays the foundation for the image of Uncle Wolf step by step.
Colorado is X-23’s hope, but Uncle Wolf only hopes to drink and take drugs for the rest of his life.
The nurse died and his residence was attacked. He didn't even think about taking X-23 with him until Loli showed his steel claws.
But when Uncle Wolf discovered that this place was just a place name in the comics that the girl had seen growing up, he exploded, and the feeling of despair about the future of mutants filled the screen;
Very tragic heroism, all those who save people are heroes, and it seems more touching than a hero who can take off the gorgeous coat of a superhero in his prime and is unable to save himself, destroying himself to save others.
The second thing is the details. There is a Western section in the film that is used as an intertext. During the break of escape, the professor takes X-23 to watch the TV movie "Into the Wild", and the protagonist Sean is also seen on the road. A knight who draws his sword to help when he is unjust.
What happened to their guest family was similar to what happened in Western movies. But good people will also be killed.
What was even more unexpected was that Professor X was also killed by a wolf. He was killed by a clone of his uncle. When he was talking about old things to the clones, he was stabbed in the heart with a sharp knife and died.
Death spread almost throughout the entire road chase, coupled with the sad music. .
A moment of pleasure, a moment of survival, a slow and warm plot followed by a strong plot, every killing seems to be the end of the world.
Especially when Uncle Wolf sends Loli to his destination. After getting ready to leave, they found that the children who wanted to cross the border to Canada were being hunted, and the powerful KO villain was also on the verge of death after being injected with potion.
After the violent loli buried him and placed the cross diagonally into an X, the sense of apocalypse was almost overwhelming.
There is a classic dialogue in "This Killer Is Not Too Cold".
"There are many hardships in life, is it only in childhood?" Matilda asked.
Leon said, "It's always been like this."
It also seemed to summarize Wolverine's life.
This movie is not only the death of Uncle Wolf, but also the final chapter of the X-Men. The century-old hero finally turned into a piece of loess. The image of Uncle Wolf is tragic. This movie is a tearjerker.