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Theatrical Cut

• Lacks transitions
• Longer African scene
• More Lex

Cultural Response

• Dark and not fun
• Introspection and Intellectual discourse being seen as dark and not fun?

The Theme

• “The fact is, maybe he’s not some sort of Devil or Jesus character. Maybe he’s just a
  guy trying to do the right thing.
• “Men with power obey neither policy nor principal. No one is different. No
  one is neutral.”
•  Images, motifs
• Fight at the football game over FU TD
• Objectivism
  • HotG
  •  Similarities to
    • Atlas Shrugged
    • Watchmen

The Characters

• Everymen
  • Wallace Keef
    • How someone comes to hate the good – victimhood
  • Senator Finch
    • Collectivism
    • “To have an individual engage in these state level interventions should give us all pause.”
    • “How do we determine what’s good? In a democracy, good is a conversation, not a unilateral decision.”
    • “Does he act by our will or his own?”
  •  The Kents
  •  Their advice and the relationship between men and women
• Men of Ability
  • Lois Lane
    • What it means to worship the good
    • “I just don’t know if it’s possible…for you to love me and be you.”
  • Wonder Woman
    • A mini-echo of Clark’s journey
  • Lex
    • What it means to hate the good
    • Why does he hate Superman
    • His father “waved flowers at tyrants”
    • “The bittersweet pain among men is having knowledge with no power
      because that is paradoxical.”
    • “Maybe we can partner on something.”
    • WK: “Who the hell are you?” “Just a man.”
  • Batman
    • He is a villain in the movie because he hates the good
    • Psychological trauma
    • Everything with Batman is falling/going down
    • “They taught me the world only makes sense if you force it to.”
    • “Men are still good.”
  • Superman
    • What is his conflict?
    • Continuation of Man of Steel
    • Why fight if he’s just going to be attacked for it?
    • “No one stays good in this world.”
    • Jesus imagery

The Resolution

• Martha Scene
• Wonder Woman and the email (and Turkish Airlines)
• “This is my world. You are my world.”
  • Connection to Martha’s advice
  • Was it a sacrifice? If not, what makes it heroic?
• The funeral and the monument
  • How has justice dawned?
    • “I failed him in life. I won’t fail him in death.”

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