By Christopher Barr │POSTED ON OCTOBER 22, 2016
I hurt
myself today
To see if I
still feel
I focus on
the pain
The only
thing that’s real.
The Logan trailer is by far the best trailer
of the year so far. It has masterfully
distanced itself from the superhero movies that the film version of Wolverine
came from. This emotional trailer shows
a not so distant future where Logan is living with his demons as his body
doesn’t regenerate at the rate it once did.
It shows him caring for a sick Professor X in a somewhat dystopian sandy
environment.
The Logan trailer looks like it draws visual
inspiration from the damn near flawless film Hell or High Water and the equally flawless Coen Brothers film No Country for Old Men. It has hints of Mad Max but the world in the trailer hasn’t got that bad yet. There was a hint of Se7en in this trailer as well with a very quick little happy moment
around the dinner table, that we can tell, like in Se7en, is all the joy we’re going to get, before we dive back into
the dreadful reality of not only the end of the mutants but possibly the end of
the Wolverine. 
And you
could have it all
My empire of
dirt
I will let
you down
I will make
you hurt.
Hugh
Jackman’s performance just in the trailer is chillingly brilliant. His ‘Old Man Logan’ is wonderful and
heartbreaking at the same time. He
appears to be in the winter of his discontent, he appears to be slowly dying,
and while this realization may overwhelm him, it looks like it equally
frightens him.
Professor X
in the first X-Men movie helped Logan not only face his current demons at the
time, but also he helped him unlock parts of his past. Logan and Professor X’s relationship in the
X-Men movies were arguably the best parts of the whole franchise. The only other complex and equally
interesting relationship was the one that Professor X had with Magneto.
Logan looks like the friendship between
Professor X and Logan is going to reach the palpable relationship of a father
and son. The film truly feels like a
last chapter in a long journey for a character who probably should have died
long ago for some of things he’s done, but in his suffering is the fact that he
lives on.
I can’t
recall the last time I saw a movie trailer where the music that accompanies the
footage was so wonderfully married.
Johnny Cash’s Nine Inch Nails
cover of Hurt couldn’t have been
anymore perfect. The sorrow that
permeates that song and the realization that you were responsible for so much
pain, and then how much you want to off load it, just to live again, or to live
in peace, but you can’t because it’s there, wallpapered on every corner of your
mind. It’s absolute brilliance to play
this wonderfully sad painful song while juxtaposing it with the long life of a
man that has suffered and that has made others suffer, whether it was
utilitarian, vengeance or plain righteousness.
If I could start
again
A million
miles away
I will keep
myself
I would find
a way.
