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There is much to love in this film, including many memorable striking scenes; Seven of our favorites can be seen below. It has a stellar casting, spicy dialogue and breaks up the action with quieter character moment that the story improves without slowing down the pace. X-Men Also does pains to enter into important relationships: Charles and Magneto, Rogue and Wolverine, and the romantic triangle of Jean, Cyclops and Wolverine. We care about these characters: their isolation, their pain to be feared and rejected because they are different, and the different ways in which they process those feelings.
Despite the poor treatment of humanity of them, our mutant heroes are still willing to risk their lives to save thankless humanity. That is what makes heroes, even if it is perhaps easier to believe that Magneto and the open hostility of the brotherhood are justified towards people. (“Humanity has always feared what it doesn't understand.” X-Men is hardly subtle about delivering its core message. The film has intolerance and fear of a targeted “other” versus striving for acceptance and peaceful coexistence, which defends the last unashamedly. If something of it “woke up” – well, like SupermanIt is not the film that has changed.
Without further delay, here are our seven favorite scenes in X-Men:
Young Eric at Auschwitz
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X-Men Waste is not time to set up its primary theme. The very first scene is set in the Poland in 1944, where a young Erik Lehnsherr and his parents are heard by soldiers in the rain in a concentration camp. Erik is divorced from his parents, and the sight of his moaning mother who is towed ensures that a distressing Erik tries to join them again. He is stopped by soldiers and his intensifying emotions unleash his mutant ability. He can manipulate magnetic fields and bend the metal gates that keeps him from his parents in an “X” before the soldiers beat him unconscious.
Erik becomes Magneto, and those early experiences in the concentration camp have formed its character and world view indelwind, causing his nasty plans for mutants to move people as the dominant species on earth. To miss the point, the next scene is Charles Xavier and Magneto who listen to anti-mutant members of the congress who call for a mutant registration law. Magneto insists that he knows first -hand where all this will inevitably lead; Charles resists that people have changed for the better, perfectly encapsulated how these former friends turn into reserved opponents.
