Against Brightburn: in Defense of the House of El
[Note: I started this essay last year, shortly after the movie Brightburn came out on DVD. However, the movie so inflamed my opposition that I found it impossible to complete this review at the time without being un-Christianly cruel. Now, after several months, I have been able to finish a more moderate and appropriate version of this essay.] The 2019 film Brightburn is, quite simply, the worst movie I have ever seen, and the world needs to know. Now, when I say this, I do not mean that it is a product of poor craftsmanship; I mean that this film is—not to put too fine a point on it—morally evil. It is the sort of work that shows just how far our civilization (Western, Anglophonic, American, what-have-you) has fallen. The list of possible accusations against this film is long, but first, a brief summa...