Brightburn(2019)
"He's not here to save the world"
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What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?
David Yarovesky
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Mark Gunn
Screenplay
Brian Gunn
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Slaughter At The Breyer Farm
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Super Powered Serial Killer For A Step Son
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Don't Tell His Parents
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Waitress Killed By Superhuman Child
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The Meteor Calls To Brandon
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The Fun Of This Movie
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Brandon Breyer
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Not A Happy Ending
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Mothers Love
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Assuming They Are Here For Good
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James Gunn
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Vignette - Not Here To Save The World
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Written on May 13, 2019
What if superman was a bad guy? That's the premise Brightburn is built upon.
To my mind its a more mature concept than the traditional good guy Superman. It makes sense on a certain level too. A superior being would inevitably assert its superiority over lesser beings. That's how evolution and predator/prey relationships tend to work.
Whether you agree with my Darwinian assumptions or not, this is a decent horror sci fi film. There's a sense of the comfortable and familiar family dynamic being turned on its head. The innocent, much loved, adopted son, transformed into something so overwhelming powerful and ruthlessly destructive, that even his parents come to fear him.
Its the abrupt contrast between these two realities, that makes this film genuinely unnerving.Helped in no small part by a clever climax, that underlines the fall from grace humanity faces, at the hands of this alien other.
A decent watch I rate 7/10.
