This two movies are of different categories, one from comic, the other one can be said as inspired by a lot of life like events of terrorism.
However, both involved reflecting the good vs bad. Both argue between their blacks and whites.
Surely, it had been a bummer to see a soft and not so good spot in both batman and superman, who used to be clearly a white character in my perspective since childhood. However, now that they are portrayed this way, they seemed really real. Real in the sense of how we live our lives. We have our own struggles to keep our own ideals, not to mention the struggles to live the life as we see fit, to live it with courage and conviction the way we dare to hope it to be. At times, I wonder how many times do we need to summon up courage to live it the way we hold our up most value to be? How many times must the decision be challenged and forged and reflected and battered upon before it had shaped itself into a course that had laid its foundation upon our course of struggles. We see it in both Batman and Superman. How they had digested situations when the going gets tough. There are no real super-human in this world, given extraordinary strength in outwardly conditions, we face our own internal battles of love, hatred and regrets. We look at the green green meadow on the other side of the fence, and we thought that we are the only ones needing to work so damn hard, or might not want to work so damn hard to get what we want, if, we get what we want at all.
London has fallen has seriously challenged the black and the white. Although the story line had marred the story of those on the other side of terrorism, it is not difficult to see the counter argument of how some terrorism had involved hurting innocent public, while those on the "white" side of terrorism claim higher cause, nobler existence by showing how precise is their attack and targeting that had not let innocent public getting hurt nor jeopardized in any way possible.
Batman had been seriously pissed off with Superman too for accidentally hurting innocent during his battles with whatever or whoever that had surfaced as a threat to humanity that moment. Reminds me of the similar complaints in the cartoon movie "The Incredibles", where the superheroes had ended up making a mess when trying to do good, and how someone would always have to clean their mess for them.
In our world, we have our own complex list of rules, regulations, norms, policies and so on so forth. These lines had all been drawn based on the norms and cultures of societies. Some echoes each other, some conflicts and clash loudly, that is when phenomena of clashes in arguments, battles, show down would unfold themselves.
We thought that it is difference in culture, in values, in religion, in many things, in anything, but at the end of the day, it is just one word. Different. Yet we all live together in this world. Can we figure out a way to make peace, to live it through, or even to die it through all this violence and still be true to what we hold on to?
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