Once in a while, people lose their feet and lose their way, which does not mean that they will be lost forever.
In the frenzy of the New World, in the wave of colonization and slavery, in the turmoil of the world war, mankind was once lost, and the blood of relentless artillery fire stained the whole world.
Even to this day, many of us are still running amok in arrogance and hatred, just like the people of X-Men: Reverse Future.
The battle between humans and mutants is the main contradiction in the X-Men series, and the old canon trilogy, which begins with the tit-for-tat confrontation between Professor X and Magneto, creates a world where humans and mutants coexist and are mutually suspicious and exclusive.
In that world, mutants are looked at differently by humans, persecuted, and forced into desperate situations. Mutants with various abilities naturally do not sit still, in the face of human ruthlessness, Magneto tries to make mutants replace humans as the leader of the world, and Professor X believes that humans have good hearts and can work with mutants to create a better world.
Among them, there is also Wolverine, who is tired of war, and he only cares about the memory of "Wolverine 1", and other national events are not a matter.
"X-Men: Reverse Future" is still about the battle between humans and mutants, the screenwriters have long finalized the idea of time travel, perhaps to do some preparation, Fox Pictures has launched "X-Men: First Battle" and "Wolverine 2", and finally put this series of peak works spanning 50 years in 2014.
The story begins with the dystopian world of 2023. At that time, humans had successfully developed "sentinels" that automatically identified mutant genes and completely annihilated mutants. Humans have demonstrated their ability to dominate the world—to make tools, to face enemies that cannot be defeated head-on, and mutants are gradually retreating, presumably only the X-Men are making the final resistance.
Using the Phantom Cat's ability to teleport other people's consciousness back to the past, the remnantStay X-Men evade the Sentinels. It's just that she can't teleport people back to the more distant past and directly change the whole history, because the average human brain will be unable to bear it.
Except for Wolverine, who is extremely self-healing.
Going back to Wolverine in 1973 would also need to change key historical events to stop the creation of the Sentinel and thus change history.
Thinking that at that time, because of the impulse of the magic woman, she killed the founder of "Sentinel", Trask, and human beings realized the necessity of "Sentinel" and made up their minds to develop and manufacture.
It just so happened that Magneto was mysteriously arrested for assassinating US President John F. Kennedy, and then imprisoned in the heavily guarded Pentagon; Professor X overdose and lost his superpowers, fell into a state of decadence, and no one could control the impulsive Witch.
Wolverine, who is trying to reverse everything, can't kill her directly, so he has to find Professor X and Magneto first, and the force of the people to dissuade the Witch from killing at the Paris Summit.
However, Professor X and Magneto are still in a state of "young and crazy", and neither of them is a simple commodity, which can be persuaded in one or two sentences. Especially Magneto, even if he believes Wolverine's lies about the future, he will obediently cooperate with persuasion work in extreme thoughts?
Wolverine's journey is no longer something that can be accomplished by force alone, he first has to help the self-defeating Professor X drive away the negative energy and regain his life, and then stop the Demon Woman from killing Trask, and in the middle of this, he also has to face the "time bomb" of Magneto.
So X-Men: Reverse Future can be divided into two parts, two soul characters:
The first half is centered on the young Professor X;
The second half is the Witch of the Devil.
Magneto? He is a role similar to the "churning stick", increasing the contradictions and conflicts of the plot.
Professor X introduced the theme of the whole film, people occasionally lose their feet and lose their way, does not mean that they will be lost forever.
Because of the outbreak of the Vietnam War, the U.S. government forced conscription, resulting in the loss of a close friend Professor X and the loss of the newly established mutant school, which was one of the most difficult moments of his life.
He already had so many troubles, and it was really devastating for him to hear the troubles in other people's heads because of his own abilities.
As Wolverine himself said, he didn't know how to help Professor X, and he had to tie the bell to the ringer, and only Professor X himself could save himself. Wolverine mostly relied on himself when he got rid of the memory knot in X-Men 2, and the old Professor X just took the handle.
Or the old Professor X, he gave the young self an important reminder, pain, although terrible, can make people stronger, if you can feel it, accept it, it will be a very powerful ability, strong to bear the pain of others, this ability comes from the most human force, hope.
The younger and older generations of characters have taken this back and forth in a historical frame, which can be described as a classic scene in the entire series.
The lost Professor X needs to accept the pain of the miracle and regain hope; the Witch of The Witch needs to rediscover her inner goodness and let the whole world regain hope.
Professor X is lost in pain, and The Witch is lost in hatred.
Because of learning that Trask used mutants to experiment and mutilate his own compatriots, the Demon Woman was full of anger, and did not take this dead dwarf to sacrifice to heaven.
Just when the so-called unjust retribution is over, human beings mutilate mutants, mutants retaliate against mankind, human beings are determined to exterminate mutants, mutants struggle to resist, and in the end it will only be a lose-lose situation.
The Witch's assassination of Trask does not save the mutants, and even without the Sentinel, there will still be humans like Trask who will continue to do bad things, most typically Wolverine's nemesis Stryker.
The evil of human nature tears the world apart.
If humans can tolerate mutants, how can mutants generate hatred and turn to revenge on humans?
And in our world, the same is true, if the whole society can accommodate some special groups, do not have to look at them differently, why should they have nothing to do on the streets to protest and cause unnecessary disputes?
Simple truths are always invincible to the complexity of human nature.
Maybe the Witch of The Witch knew that killing Trask would not save anything, but she just couldn't swallow this evil breath; Magneto, who had already lost faith in humanity, only believed in countering violence with violence, and only by making humans afraid could mutants boldly do themselves without being bullied; on the human side, arrogance and selfishness were the norm, which doomed atrocities not to be accidental.
Could it be that Professor X's idea is completely wrong? Professor X, who knows the result, has doubts himself, and is soft on humans, which will only help to abuse?
Old Professor X immediately retorted, sublimating the theme of the whole movie.
"Unless, of course, we can show a better future."
This is the core reason for "reversing the future".
Human atrocities are inevitable events, but the impulses of the Witches are accidental.
Because, once in a while, people lose their feet and lose their way, does not mean that they will be lost forever. She was only blinded by hatred for a while, as long as someone could patiently enlighten, she could find the direction of human brilliance again.
One of her thoughts was good or evil, and the history of the entire X-Men series was also about whether humanity could also find a better direction in the lost path.
The Witch can use kindness and forgiveness to guide the lost human beings, and to inspire the common nature of all mankind itself, the beginning of man, the nature of goodness.
In fact, it is not only the thought of the witch who will change history, but also the thoughts of people.
Whether it is to choose tolerance or discrimination, to choose acceptance or exclusion, to choose peace or violence, in our world, it is not about what kind of witch, only about what choice each of us makes.
X-Men: Reverse Future reverses the good and evil of human nature. What kind of world it will be in 50 years is unknown, and we can only make our own regretless choices at this reversible moment.
Countless choices determine our destiny. Every choice, every moment, is a ripple in the river of time. Enough ripples can change the direction of the river, because the future is never a fixed number. - "X-Men: Reverse Future"