2008-10-04
It is forbidden!
Some of you may recall this sequence of events: Against the wishes of his now-extinct father, Superman takes control of time and space as he boorishly turns back the clock to save his ladyfriend from the jaws of an earthquake caused by Luthor's hijacked nuclear missile. The actual consequences of all this temporal tomfoolery continue to be a hot topic in Superman focus-groups. As one blogger reports: 'the kinetic energy to stop and reverse the earth in the time shown would probably boil the oceans. Hell it would probably boil the crust.' Quite.
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This sequence is a mainstream replay of the end of Jean Cocteau's 1950 movie 'Orphée'. In Cocteau's version, the Princess, Death (a patron of the arts), breaks all the rules and reverses the flow of time in order to save Orphée, with whom she is in love (and who, incidentally, spends half the movie in his car). What's interesting when we contrast this with Superman is that a) the genders are reversed (the woman forces time to flow backwards to save the man) and b) not only is the loved object saved from death, but it is death itself (*her*self) who does the saving, and sacrifices her liberty in so doing (the last frames of the film show her being arrested by the death-cops and carted off to face her punishment).
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