X-MEN: APOCALYPSE

X-MEN: APOCALYPSE. Byran Singer, dir., story with Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris, and Simon Kinberg (story and screenplay). Grant Major, production design. Louise Mingenbach, costume design. USA (but filmed largely in Canada): Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation presents, Marvel Entertainment in association with other companies (prod.) / Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (US release), 2016; see IMDb for complexities of production and distribution.

As in X-MEN 2, note Professor Charles Xavier's telepathic-contact chamber and the image of paranormal psi powers within Xavier's head, which is itself encompassed by an electronically-rigged helmet, while his body is in a high-tech wheelchair within a highly Modernist chamber that dissolves in a telepathic vision of (normal [or modal phenotypic]) "humans" and then mutants, represented by blue and red icons. X-MEN: APOCALYPSE is relevant in itself for one scene with Wolverine, who escapes from a high-tech plus Industrial opaque containment vehicle — picture a trailer for a monster-movie star who's a real monster — and we see him with an electronic (early cybernetic?) crown of electrodes, plus at least two heavy screws that have violated his upper body. Wolverine escapes all this confinement and bodily invasion into a forest in winter: which adds up to a beast/man in a control headpiece, violated by the most primitive sort of mechanical tool (a screw) and kept in windowless confinement escaping into a natural world of trees and very white snow; it is a brief but highly tense moment in the film, pretty much irrelevant to the plot but highly exhilarating.

Erlich, 28/V/16