MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
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RABBIL SIKDAR looks below the surface of superhero films and doesn’t like what he sees
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TODAY, it seems, superheroes are ubiquitous.
Hardly a month passes in the cinema and on TV without the premiere of another new adventure derived from the pages of the comic books.
What’s striking about these stories isn’t the unbelievable powers of the superheroes, their amazing hair that somehow survives the worst of alien invasions or the jaw-dropping fight scenes, with Daredevil’s up there with the best. It’s the way in which the power of ordinary people is stripped away.
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