Destroy All Monsters: Ideals Will Destroy Us All, And Other Things I Learned from CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR

Hard to believe I’ve been writing this column for 3 years – literally feels like I just got started. Naturally, this week, the conversation turns to Civil War.

…As a whole piece, Civil War has a sense of futility about it that would seem angry if it weren’t overlaid with such a profound, tragic sadness. It’s also an earned sadness, if that makes sense, in that superhero stories, in comic books and in movies, are always to some degree about idealistic whys and hows of doing “the right thing.”

Read more: http://twitchfilm.com/2016/05/destroy-all-monsters-the-horrors-of-conscience-and-other-things-i-learned-from-captain-america-civil.html#ixzz48MJRRGHB