When the final trailer for
Zack Snyder s Justice Leaguelaunched on Sunday, there was so much zipping around that one could be forgiven for having a bit of a delayed reaction. From
Henry Cavill s grunting Superman to a clear look at the tyrannical ruler of Apokolips, Darkseid,
Zack Snyder s images can overwhelm the senses. Dialogue sometimes takes a back seat.
But listen closely at the very end, when we hear a voice (later to be revealed as
Jared Leto s Joker) speaking to
Ben Affleck s Batman. That s right, Joker begins his rant with the words, we live in a society. . .
This is, for the very online, hilarious.
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Over the last year, my attention span for movies has deteriorated quite a bit. Troubling given my chosen career, I know but I have grounds to shirk some responsibility for it. Unless you’re at the movie theater seeing a fresh release (now almost a foreign concept), watching a film means sitting before a streamable product that runs parallel to your social feeds and DMs. Even before the pandemic, product placement meant many popular movies were reproducing our lived realities of ubiquitous marketing.
Strawberry Mansion, the second film by writer-director duo
Albert Birney and
Kentucker Audley (who also stars in the film, and has acted in many others), has helped me better understand my troubles.