Social Distance, Re: Exchange between Iñárritu and Downey on significance of Superhero genre

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/advice-for-robert-downey-jr-avengers-ultron-cultural-genocide?mbid=social_facebook

My running opinion on this is that our political economic totality routinely produces aggression due to its tendency to create expectations and wants that are systematically, even egregiously, unmet, all aside from need.

Action movies are like boxing fights in that they sublimate the aggression we experience in an through the frustration of these chronically unmet needs.

In this sense, Iñárritu is far from correct in asserting that superhero movies are insignificant culturally, for they serve a crucial role in staving off the realization of this aggression in our everyday lives, which explains as well why we like boxing and shooting guns.

In this way, he just demonstrates his own socioeconomic distance from his potential viewers.

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