You will not watch LOGAN the same way again.
Logan
hardly speaks to anyone. He pushes everyone who tries to help. We can
see Logan is carrying a bullet and a magazine about boats. He mentions
about the boat several times through out the movie.
He wants to be in the ocean, alone.
He wants isolation.
One day, he sees Laura. They eye each other. They exchange a glance.
The circumstances bring them together.
They
finally meet. Logan tries to see what is in her bag as Laura resists
him. We can tell Laura doesn’t trust him. The feeling goes both ways.
Logan doesn’t care about her as well.
When the enemies come, he even left her for them.
In the first half of the movie, Laura hardly eyes Logan. Only Logan looks at her.
Logan is an observer.
He watches a video about her.
Logan observes her as a violent mutant, similar to him. He wants to know if she is worth his trust.
He observes and stops her before she hurts someone. This is the first time he tries to teach her.
He is not a good father yet.
In the hotel, Logan observes Laura through an ajar door. You will soon know why this is important.
Logan moves into the room. He mocks Laura for believing in comic books.
Again, he tries to teach her, to warn her.
But he is not the father type. It comes out like he’s picking a fight.
It backfires, obviously.
Logan tries again. Logan gives Laura responsibility to make sure Xavier takes his drug.
Despite the fact that he kept telling Xavier that he doesn’t care, we can sense that he is trying.
Situation is tensed up. Logan finds out Xavier didn’t take his drugs. He also learns Eden is fake.
And the enemies are coming.
Here,
comes the most unique action scene from all the superheroes movies.
Logan and Laura fight their way to Xavier. Laura helps Logan inject the
drug on Xavier.
This is the first time Logan and Laura accomplish something together. The situation is getting better. Logan is changing.
He doesn’t say that he likes Laura. He doesn’t leave Laura this time.
Later in the movie, Laura observes Logan instead.
She plays an observer’s role now. She observes Logan as a hero.
She observes him as a father.
She sees him carrying Xavier into his room in exactly the same angle as Logan sees Laura in the hotel scene.
This is intentional to show a comparison of switching roles.
It also means Xavier is the only one that keeps them together as he is always in the other room.
After Xavier dies, Logan is lost.
He tries to leave Laura again.
He tries to go back to being his old self, an isolated man. But he fails.
In
the end, as he holds his daughter’s hand, she calls him “Daddy” for the
first time, while Logan gives her the last lesson — “Don’t be what they
made you”.
From two people who barely exchanged glances in the beginning and hardly trusting each other, they become father and daughter.
Logan is not about an origin story of an ancient mutant.
Logan is not about a battle against a giant samurai made from the strongest metal in the world.
Only the third installation of Wolverine has such depth on a simple concept about father and daughter.
Great art is risked to be misunderstood. Logan is so subtle that only some people can see why it’s great.
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