Go watch the Narnia
movies or the Lord of the Rings movies instead. They have a more
Christian theme.
. . . The Avengers is chock-a-block with Ubermenschen,
powerful, willful people who assert themselves through technology and the
hyper-violence that that technology makes possible. And the most remarkable
instance of this technologically informed self-assertion is the creation of the
savior figure, who self-identifies with the very words of Yahweh in the book of
Exodus. But he is not the Word become flesh; instead, he is the coming together
of flesh and robotics, produced by the flexing of the all too human will to
power.
I find it fascinating
that this pseudo-savior was brought about by players on both sides of the
divide, by both Iron Man and Ultron. Like Nietzsche’s superman, he is indeed
beyond good and evil—which is precisely why he cannot definitively solve the
problems that bedevil the human race and can only glumly predict the eternal
return of trouble.
If you have any
doubts about the Nietzschean intention of Joss Whedon, take a good look at the
image that plays as The
Avengers comes to a close. It
is a neo-classical sculpture of all of the major figures in the film locked in
struggle, straining against one another. It is in complete conformity with the
aesthetic favored by Albert Speer, Leni Riefenstahl, and the other artists of
the Nazi period. . .
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