"X-Men" spoiler alert
So I saw the latest X-Men movie, and I think it was one of the best examples of using time travel I’ve ever seen. All time travel stories are risky and prone to paradoxes, but this time it was worth it, because it was used to contrast the shifts in friendship between Raven, Eric, and Xavier. To see them as allies, then enemies, then friends, was quite moving, and to watch Eric give a speech about the ultimate power of mutants in the 1970s while switching back and forth between that and the robotic slaughter of mutants in the far future was quite telling.
Meanwhile, Logan’s trip to the past contrasts himself personally, the future self who had matured and been guided by Xavier, is now trying to convince the emotional ruin that is a younger Xavier to man up and start helping people again, especially no longer taking the drugs that let him walk but suppresses his mental powers. You know the characters are messed up when Logan “the Wolverine” is the mentor.
They also had fun with a lot of the other X-Men, Quicksilver mutant for moving faster than people can perceive used as much for laughs as for plot, but I’d like to give Ellen Page a quick shout out for her minor role as the mutant who allowed Wolverine to go into the past in the first place.
Meanwhile, Logan’s trip to the past contrasts himself personally, the future self who had matured and been guided by Xavier, is now trying to convince the emotional ruin that is a younger Xavier to man up and start helping people again, especially no longer taking the drugs that let him walk but suppresses his mental powers. You know the characters are messed up when Logan “the Wolverine” is the mentor.
They also had fun with a lot of the other X-Men, Quicksilver mutant for moving faster than people can perceive used as much for laughs as for plot, but I’d like to give Ellen Page a quick shout out for her minor role as the mutant who allowed Wolverine to go into the past in the first place.