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So Brightburn isn't just a name.
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It is the reversal of this,
messianic messenger, right?
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This Savior series that is not a savior.
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He is the harbinger.
His gifts are not blessings.
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They are weapons.
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And if the s was symbolic of hope,
in this case, it is symbolic of scourge.
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He's not Kal
El He's not Kal-El sent to save us.
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He's the meteor, that mass
and now walks among us.
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And again, him coming up in 2019.
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This is again where we are
at the height of trust in government
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and institutions and religions
all starting to crumble.
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We have mass shootings in school,
violence,
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often by boys that look like brightburn.
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We have mental health issues
that are on the rise, and we're seeing
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the rise of the anti-hero
and the villain as protagonist narrative.
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And this is subversion of classic myths
across pop pop culture,
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the cultural exhaustion of hopeful
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heroes that now we're saying, well,
what if they were all lying?
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So brightburn to me is Superman
filtered through Columbine,
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Sandy hook, and American exceptionalism
that we've grown fatigued from Smallville?
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Dream is now dead. He.
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