And "Professor X", an absolute good person, advocates peace, and hopes to build a world where humans and mutants coexist. Although humans do not accept them, he organized the X-Men to find and protect mutants around the world. At critical moments, he even helps humans to tide over the crisis, and firmly believes that humans will live in peace with mutants one day. Although he finally sacrificed, everything he had hoped in his life was finally realized at the end of the third film "The Last Stand" of the X-Men.
But after watching "First Class" today, I have a different understanding of the views and practices of the two schools: at the end of the film, after the first batch of X-Men resolved the Cuban missile crisis, the U.S. and Soviet forces’ The guns turned towards the X-Men, because these two superpowers agreed that the mutants were too powerful, and the consequences would be disastrous if they were not resolved. Magneto reacted first and decided to reverse the direction of the missile shells to attack the US-Soviet fleet. From the beginning, he believed that the future will be the world of mutants, and that human beings will eventually be eliminated under the natural law of survival of the fittest, which is in line with the laws of nature and is reasonable. He helped mankind resolve the nuclear crisis in advance, but mankind attacked him in turn, and he made the decision to fight back, which was reasonable. In my opinion, it is completely normal for you to fight back when someone bullies you. The "Magneto King" just realized that human beings have a bad attitude towards mutants and decided to take war to protect the rights of their mutants. Is it wrong to fight for their own legal rights?
On the other hand, "Professor X", when the humans launched an attack on them, he was stunned. He never thought that humans would treat them as a threat. When the "Magneto King" planned to attack the US-Soviet fleet, he just blindly prevented him. He didn’t know how to refute Magneto’s point of view. Although he loved peace and didn’t want to watch humans go to war with mutants, his idea at the time might be that he no longer believed in humans, and he also felt that Magneto. What I said is right, as long as their mutants are in the world day by day, they are a day-to-day threat to mankind. He was shaken. This can be proved at the end of the film. The female agent of the CIA loved him deeply and assured him that she would not say all of this, but "Professor X" still erased her memory. Maybe he was worried, but at least it means that he no longer believed in humans at the time. It can also be seen from the first "X-Men" that he tried his best to hide his school, and silently looked for mutants to protect them, and only he and his men knew all of this.
"Professor X"'s "inaction", in my opinion, is because he advocates peace, and he does not want to see the outbreak of war, so he tries to stop the "magnet king" as much as possible, trying not to increase the number of humans and mutants. Contradiction. In the second "X-Men", the reason why he talked with the President of the United States at the end, hoping to resolve the crisis, was because the conflict at the time was not provoked by mutants, but the one who transformed the "Wolverine" What the officer provoked was not a contradiction between mutants and humans. He just resolved an unnecessary war, and it didn't mean that he began to believe in humans again. But I have to say that the second part of "X-Men" provides a good opportunity for humans and mutants. Humans began to slowly accept mutants, and mutants began to integrate into human life. One of the X-Men "beasts" Hank even became a senator to protect the rights of mutants. But Professor X did not. He still runs his own school and did not participate in politics with Hank.
Throughout the X-Men series, mutants have always been in a situation of being discriminated against. Obviously, I won’t say much about the first and second installments. In the third installment, although the society accepts mutants, the mainstream of the society is still "mutants are "Freaks", "they are abnormal", mutants themselves feel that they are abnormal, and they all think that they need to be injected with a vaccine that can disable their superpowers before they can integrate into this society ("Little Naughty" is like this), Even Hank is the developer of this vaccine, and he thinks this is a great discovery. In "First Class", it can be learned that Hank had the idea of "becoming normal" very early. It can be seen that the mutants are still in a pitiful situation, although we finally saw it at the end of the third part. The scene where mutants and humans are happily together, but I feel that it is just the screenwriter inventing a happy ending. In reality, mutants are still freaks and will still be discriminated against.
Thinking about it now, Magneto’s approach may be a bit extreme, but he is protecting the rights of mutants in a real sense. When he found that humans would not accept them, he chose to fight, fight back, and do it for himself. Fighting, in my opinion, is more correct and more reasonable than Professor X's approach of seeking perfection and "saving the country by curve". It's just that in the movie he was regarded as the "big villain" and was "being" infinitely distorted.
When our legitimate rights and interests are challenged and our survival is threatened, should we silently endure all this and be assimilated by the mainstream of society, or should we fight back and fight for ourselves? I think this is the question that this series of films will bring us to think about, although the performance in the film is not objective.
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