Fictional but real at the same time

Rating: 8/10 (24 February 2020)

How can we describe things we don't know, things we have no idea about? What is the symbol of things that have no definition? "X" can be the answer to this. It is is the third least frequently used letter in English, with a frequency of about 0.15% in words.
It stands for the other, the different and the unknown. It is a minority very much indeed. And what is it about those things? These are the things we sometimes fear the most because we can't tell what's behind it? The rustling in the bush - is it a cat or a sabre-toothed tiger?
So the mutants in the X-Men stand for a minority of life forms, pretty much look alike as humans, but still different. As they have different powers, some of them quite dangerous for humans, and since they are just different, not necesseraly worse or better than humans, they become marginalized by the majority population of humans.
Many mutants find themselves excluded from the society, running away, living on their own and trying to avoid any contact due to fear of being punished. This
raises not only anxiety but also rage and aggression.
There are the good and the bad on both sides, the humans and the mutans. The ones who want war and the ones who seek for peace. This is one of the most outstanding metaphores in the X-Men series and in this first movie. Therefore this movie is a great depiction and may - unfortunately - always be representing current events and how humans treat each other.
Understood this way, this movie shows that it is not about our gender, religion, origin, sexual orientation, nationality, etc. but about if we can live together in peace and freedom. And it is only when the good living beings, humans so far, can achieve this freedom to prevent the bad winning.