The Original Subtext Is Eventually Back! Even More.

Rating: 7/10 (17 June 2011)

Under Bryan Singer's supervision in the story of First Class, the original subtext of the X-Men franchise is eventually revived, even with a scent of bro-romance or being camp I suppose. The lines in it couldn't be more specific, further than "Have you tried not being a mutant?" in X2(2003), like "You didn't ask so I didn't tell," "You want society to accept you, but you can't even accept yourselves?" "I always believed I couldn't be the only one in the world who was different," "You have no idea what I'd give to be normal!" or some slogans like "mutant and proud" kind of lines. There are plenty of symbolic images to discuss. In the final montage scene, the coin, pricking into Shaw's head, which is being occupied by Charles, could be interpreted as a motive of Erik's own revenge obviously, or the two sides of one coin as the mutants' stands since the symbol X is simply a mutation from the Nazi Swastika, and the spirit of Swastika is what Erik holds afterward as Charles standing for X; even this head-pricking scene, when Charles' power is inside Shaw's head and Erik uses the coin as his weapon(PRICK) into Shaw's head(BODY) filled by Charles, is an intensive way of buggery lastly terminating the two confidants' intimate relationship. More, one bullet(LOAD) swept by Erik finally strikes into the last bone of Charles' back near the BUTT; then Erik holds him, tearing, pulling it out for him... kinky, isn't it? Besides, about the yellow uniforms, Is that some homage to the original suit in the comics? Although Henry Jackman, one of the ghost composers and the hank of Hans Zimmer, borrows Death Camp, the score by Michael Kamen from X-Men(2000, is it also a homage to Kamen's death?), in the opening to review Erik's misery and the very beginning of this series, most of the time his soundtrack is a bit blatant, disturbing some short but delicate moments. Yet, all in all, X-Men: First Class, as a prequel, after X2, deserves the title of a first-class X-Men movie. By the by, since Kevin Bacon as a bad ass mutant, I kept recalling his notorious Hollow Man(2000).
Charles: We have a PROPOSITION for you. Logan: Go FXCK﻿ yourselves. (Whoa how queer is that...)