This article contains majorLoganspoilers.
They flee into the woods like lambs breaking out of a slaughterhouse.
To be sure these children, these failed mutant experiments, are not helpless.
Its a fact that Boyd Holbrooks grotesque Donald Pierce discovers the hard way.
And its also chilling.
Only now it is somewhere more distinct than south of the border; its a Mexico City hospital.
Were just trying to reflect our world, Mangold told me.
Logan, though, is no more of a bleeding heart.
As one of the first mutants born in decades, Laura Kinney (Dafne Keen) is an anomaly.
One grown in a lab in Mexico City.
They will treat these children who have fled into the U.S. as undeserving of basic human rights.
While that is extreme even for our world, how far off could it be from President Trumps America?
And for Laura and Gabriella, America is not freedom… it is a bridge to Canada.
But the way the conflict is construed is more than just a riff on an old Oater.
Nay, this is a mirror of Americas uglier underbelly circa 2017.
The choices were deliberate.
Its why Laura doesnt speak for over half the movie, but when she does, its in Spanish.
Its also endearing as she punches some common sense into Logans self-pitying depression.
Pierce starts to sneer to Logan, These are dangerous times….
So begins any rationalization for systematic abuse.
Logan and the film give an appropriately succinct counterargument.
Its comic book violence and catharsis, but the real world cannot solve problems in such a way.
Like the Wolverines grave, we should put an X on these self-inflicted cruelties too.
Loganis on Blu-ray now.
*** This article was first published on March 6, 2017.
