When I watched Zack Snyder’s Superman (2025), it arrived with all the spectacle fans might expect. It was damn sure that I was expecting gravity-defying stunts, a booming score, and city-flattening CGI mayhem. However, beneath the superhero gloss lies a much deeper question. What is it, and who controls the story of power?
The movie is set in a vaguely familiar dystopian America. This Superman is different this time, more symbol than saviour. Therefore, he is worthless about truth and justice, more about surveillance and statecraft. The movie subtly critiques the system. The systems of propaganda, as media networks scramble to shape Kal-El’s narrative. And governments deploy him as a weapon of deterrence rather than hope.
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