The Fantastic Four: First Steps and Where Seeing is Believing

First off, I was so mixed about even watching this movie, why you ask, social ‘they’re brainwashing us to death’ media.  This movie was being given its do - or dragged through the trenches of ideological social justice.  For at least the last decade, we have been bombarded with this ideological programming that cynicism has seeped in and corrupted our own objectivity, dramatic, I know, but it did.  I admit it, I got duped about this movie because social media said so, and that pisses me off.

I was thinking this wasn’t worth the bother of even seeing it, I mean, how many times have we been burnt over the last couple of years, with promises of a ‘return to form’ and ended up getting more Star Wars failures and Marvel disappointments?  The Fantastic Four: First Steps appeared, according to the mass media machine and its social media lapdog, as a mess.  It suffered from mixed messaging, it turned out.

The movie was fine, adventurous and exciting, not without its problems, but a good piece of entertainment.  The characters all had chemistry, and the plot was simple but effective at establishing the First Family as a reliable and competent team.  The actors all worked, the visuals were great, and the end was a first step, as Marvel brings this family into the fold of their ‘re-imagining’ of the future of their franchise, which has suffered through a couple of years of dark (woke) times.

The Fantastic Four was established in the movie early on, quite cleverly, letting those of us who don’t know of their accident in space, yet keeping it moving exciting, for us who do know how these Fantastic Four gained their powers.  We got to know Dr. Reed Richards, his wife Sue Storm, her brother Johnny Storm, and their friend Ben Grimm, as a charismatic team that has already been on multiple adventures for the last four years.  Yet, the subtitle of the movie is – First Steps.  We’ll get to that later.

The movie ended up exploring the perils of parenthood in uncertain times, where the world could end, but we still must fight to bring about a better world for the next generation. It told us that kids simultaneously bring out the best in all of us and remind us of what matters most – family.  This film, inspired by the nuclear family, reminds us to refocus our values toward the family.  The family has been attacked in our culture in the last decade for being toxic, for being irrelevant, for being ‘traditional’ in this modern, big-pharmaceutically-addicted world.  Yet, this movie supports the family, cherishes it in fact.

The retro-futurism in the movie is the best kind of eye-candy 2025 has offered.  The cars are cool, the clothing is cool, and the technology, in this alternative reality, is, well, cool.  There is a little play on the Jetsons here and our pre-50s World’s Fairs, where there was so much positive possibility.  Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry was heavily influenced by these dreams of a future where man and machine could work side by each harmoniously, and not turn into what we are living in today, where we have become its pet.  It feeds us and we obey its every command, we bark when it wants us to bark, we sleep when it wants us to sleep, we eat when it wants us to eat, and we are always under the threat that if the machine turns off, we all starve to death.  I guess that’s why we plug into so much technology, because our reality is often too much to psychologically bear, so we let technology own us now.

This movie has been caught up in our current ongoing culture war, which is attempting to divide us, by design, toward a more homogenized, trans-human future, where the human being is more predictable, more technologically obedient,
and less human than human.  The Fantastic Four movie seems to be aware of this unpopular trajectory and decided to not participate in the propaganda machine, designed to help us all walk into digital handcuffs and mindless servitude because the Elite, our owners, would like it better that way for their human cattle.

First Steps is an apt subtitle to this movie.  We are led to believe that it’s the Fantastic Four’s ‘First Steps’, yet it is more to do with their baby and symbolically, stretching here, our way back to traditional values and reclaiming our humanity from these satanic elites who seem hell bent on depopulating us.  Or, maybe without all the symbolism and politics, it’s meant to be a damn good piece of entertainment.