Terrific Script for GLBTAQ

Rating: 10/10 (23 June 2003)

X2 was not what I believed was going to be my type of movie. I usually go for dramas and suspense, historical, and nonfiction types of shows. This one jazzed me because of the theme that is diversity empowering. Mutants can come to be figuratively compared to any minority status and social stigmatized group. The script and plot ably present insights into social oppression of difference.
Sir Ian McKellen's "Magneto" delivers some swell GLBTAQ affirming lines. His performance was one of the strong points for me.
X2 was also a techno delight for this middle-aged viewer. Even though there's the usual comic book character violence, and I'm a practitioner of nonviolence, it was the kind of unreal violence that didn't have the effect of bothering me. Although I suppose I should analyze myself for why it didn't! ::winking cutely::
Overall the fantasy type of presentation of real life social justice and human suffering issues was uplifting and I had a feel good kind of experience at the show. I'm going to see it again.