Lifelike fantasy

Rating: 10/10 (22 August 2018)

Best thing about fantasy (sci-fi, or other) it is that it comes from human mind. Purpose of it must be in the same place. Life doesn't offer us such fast, exciting, lively situations or characters. But it is a bit silly - if you are not a kid - why would you watch something so obviously exaggerated, unrealistic and therefore childish? Well, if you ask me, here is why.
Fantasy movies are similar to human dreams. Full of pictures that are not really corresponding to reality, however it makes you recollect, it makes you think, it makes you remember - some feeling, or unfinished business. Or it might lead you to the questions that you don't usually ask on daily basis, and the answers are not certain, so maybe better not to ask and not to know.
If you followed Logan's character, you'll see that in spite of all his superiority and awesomeness, his life is not either of those things. Moreover, it is dramatic and full of losses.
His powerful claws are both a gift and burden. We have something similar to it, consciousness about self and one's life, the one that goes beyond knowing when I need to pee so I don't do it in my pants. It's the one that makes you search for the meaning constantly. It is a bit of superpower that we all got, and very often we are not sure what to do with it. No return policy however.
Logan has a very long life, everything that matters to him passes by, but he stays. So the first feeling you could attach to his character is - other than "wow, what a beast" - is that he is alone. Our life, in the best case, goes in direction that at certain point we lose people who were our whole world once, when we were kids. They are no longer in the world that we are still in, and the thought of it is also lonely.
And so what now, with claws, with powers, with life. If you are not running for the cover of majority, that finds meaning in having more than everyone else, listen up. To be alive and happy to be alive, even for one moment, is reason enough to be here. If that moment is not now-wait. When it comes, everything else will be far back in the past, even if it was second ago. And it is real.
Wolverine will be my inspiration for survival, for love for life in spite of all, for doing good even when nothing around us gives us reason to. It happened many times that I my "powers" made me suffer and that I healed even when I thought that it was not possible. That is why his story feels so close to a human's.