Man Of Steel Film Analysis

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Using the movie ‘Man of Steel’ in order to review the international relations theory of Idealism will give the reader and myself a more vivid understanding of the theory. It has the ability to do this by giving us a more familiar setting, more comprehensive social relations to work with and a more creative lens or point of view to look through. The movie Man of Steel is the latest modern day film production of the classic Superman comic books and unlike the other films, this one focuses on what led Superman to leave his home planet and make a home on plant Earth. The award-winning director Christopher Nolan shows us another part of the story that other film productions of Superman have not really focused on. In this film, we see the conflict that lead to the unveiling of Clark Kent into …show more content…
They groomed him to be a morally good person and even if he was not allowed to show his powers off, he was taught to care for others before himself and not fight back because he would hurt the others. His parents (adoptive) were supportive of he truly was and never treated him like an outsider, he was shown what it is to truly love and he was in the presence of stable and moral social relations. All of this is in truth what shaped Clark into being the person he turned out to be.
This is in a way an analogy for what I mentioned earlier about good people acting morally if lead through pure channels of communications. This is an area of the myth that can be better understood through film because it is more relatable to people. For example, when we read newspapers or watch the news and we see that a person has done some horrible crime some part of us wonders about the family background of that person, simply because it is a known fact that someone’s social environment has a great hand in shaping a

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