New Superman Movie Surprisingly Avoids Wokeness, Honors Adoption and Real Fatherhood, by Calvin Freiburger

(LifeSiteNews) – The latest cinematic iteration of Superman hit theaters last week, and because we live in an era where a superhero can’t just be a superhero anymore, it was accompanied by all-too-familiar chatter about how woke it would be.

Part of the speculation came simply from the hyper-partisan, morally depraved state of modern Hollywood bracing non-leftist Americans to always assume the worst. But the film’s director, James Gunn, threw fuel on the fire when he said in a pre-release interview, “Yes, it’s about politics,” and touted it as an “immigrant that came from other places and populated the country, but for me it is mostly a story that says basic human kindness is a value and is something we have lost.”  ….