The new “Superman” movie isn’t an attack on President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, but it reveals how alienated from America many liberals, in Hollywood and politics alike, now feel.
Every kid used to know Superman fights for “truth, justice and the American way.”
That slogan has been around since the “Superman” radio show of the early 1940s, and featured in the 1978 film starring Christopher Reeve that inaugurated the modern comic-book movie blockbuster.
James Gunn, director of the Man of Steel’s latest flick, has his own take.
“‘Superman’ is the story of America,” he told The Times of London. “An immigrant that came from other places and populated the country, but for me it is mostly a story that says basic human kindness is a value and is something we have lost.”
Conservatives feared this hinted Gunn’s film would pit the hero from Krypton against Trump’s immigration crackdown.