"The Iron Giant" - Your Future Belongs to You
It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s a giant iron man landing on Maine in 1957? Despite it appearing to be a kids’ animated E.T but with the alien lifeform replaced with a robot, director Brad Bird’s 1999 classic, “The Iron Giant,” is much more complex than it lets on. As both a fairy-inspired adventure and a superhero origin story, the film offers a little something for everyone. The younger audience is drawn to friendship between a boy and a giant robot while the adults are drawn to the film’s take on complicated and controversial ideas like gun-violence and nihilism. The film’s masterful writing transcends its initially mediocre box office results, garnering “The Iron Giant” a cult following over twenty years after its release. Being set in the ominous age of the space race that followed the second World War, “The Iron Giant[‘s]” inclusion of Sputnik in its opening shot accordingly sets in stone the tension of its setting. With North Korea’s recent advancements in nuclear technolo...