Everyone and their mum has something to say about the new Superman movie - my hottest take is that a lot of decisions were made, and while I do not always agree with them, I'm glad they were able to make them - but one thing I truly appreciated was when it all distilled down to one line.
It's the one that comes when Supes is at his lowest. They've trashed his reputation with the comically fickle DC public, and now they've taken the damn dog. And he just tells Lois that the dog is alone, and probably scared, and that's all it is, because it doesn't need to be said that he is going to do whatever it takes to sort out that horrible situation.
It's just a perfect little line that sums up what Superman is all about, and I always appreciate them when they crop up in movies. Sometimes it's right at the end - the last line in Killing Them Softly might be my favourite of the past decade, and Ewan McGregor's line about what the motive always is makes Haywire a stone cold classic of a film.
Sometimes it's right in the middle of the movie. There is a part in Alex Garland's Civil War - another movie that makes a lot odd decisions - but it's not Jesse Plemon's cold-blooded question about kinds of Americans. It's the bit with the snipers who are asked what's going on, and they say they're just trying to kill the other sniper before they get killed, and that's all it is. All the politics and all the history, and it's just two guys in a field, trying to kill somebody to save their own lives.
A bullet in the right place can change the world, and one line can make the movie.
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