Batman vs Superman – a 5 star documentary about American Capitalism

The film, as a film, is a hot mess clusterfuck that truly has to be seen to be believed. It’s so awful in that way only bloated Hollywood corporate cinema can be. The plot makes little sense, the overtly wrought melodrama is boring and the tedious pauses that are supposed to derive some type of meaning and symbolism just look silly.

As a film, it’s shit. Appalling, ill directed crap that ends up looking like Transformers in spandex. As a documentary about American Capitalism however, it’s 5 stars.

Superman symbolises the God given Manifest Destiny bullshit that convinces America that whatever helps them also personally helps Jesus Christ himself. The power of the Devine that  Superman embodies allows the troubled rebel God narrative of American Capitalism and creates the pretence that  America itself has some deep reflective soul searching power despite dropping nuclear bombs on civilian cities and using slavery as an economic base.

Batman symbolises the Military Industrial Complex. You can’t have a Superman syndrome without the rampant death industry of the private military who can project foreign affairs muscle like a God throwing lightening bolts.  Some one has to build those lightening bolts with a lot of state tax breaks, and Bruce Wayne Industries will.

Then there is Wonder Woman who represents Israel (actually played by an actress who served in the IDF). She’s there to manipulate the combined efforts of the Manifest Destiny and Military Industrial Complex for her own ends and Lex Luther represents the new disruptive technologies economy that ultimately get beaten down by the status quo.

As a movie this is shit, as a symbolic examination of American Capitalism impacting foreign policy it is a masterpiece.