THE SPIRIT: REVIEW
March 1, 2009
Based on a Frank Miller comic book story, “The Spirit” is about Danny Colt whose main mission is to fight against the odds from the subjects and wrongs from the central city.
After watching the movie you can realize that there is a lot of pride in this film, as it was showed in the beginning. “The Spirit” or Danny talks about the city like it’s a part of him like it’s his own skin and bones suggesting when he puts on his superhero costume, he is somebody he wants to be.
Rules and protocols also do not exist in his mind, rebelling against society’s reality of the perfect world he used to live in due to past events. But we didn’t see a bad guy who wants to rule the world, we saw somebody in the other end of the line who wants to be different, a questionable hero with a past he will not guard down.
The plot of the story is well written as the design of the story shows back flashes of what happened in the past that definitely shows how some of the main characters are the way they are in their own character roles.
But I also realize that there is no character growth in Danny, as the main character I sure would hope there is a change in him but there was not. Maybe he does not change or grow as Frank Miller likes showing his rawness of him from the start to the end.
The movie is very dark, strong and vulnerable and I thought Danny created the Spirit because the city needed somebody emotionless who can uphold a whole gritty city he truly cares about, so leaving the city behind him is not an option.
Some may say the movie itself is a reflection of the current world we live in today or it could possibly be the future of tomorrow that Frank Miller predicts.
So as a world, are waiting for a clear change or possibly a real enough lifelike superhero we only see in the movies.
The movie may not be a breath of fresh but it does ask of us a lot of questions we have yet to answer.
