“We get, despite a long beginning that situates the Fall of Krypton, a Clark unmoored and alone, never staying in one place, uncertain of who he is and what he will become. We are presented with a Clark that saves people—is the everyday hero with extraordinary abilities—but who struggles to balance that ability to do Great Good with a very human darkness of soul that wants vengeance and revenge, that has the ability to do Great Evil.
He is a Clark Kent struggling to step into the light.
And, this Clark Kent has been world-walking, and we are, further into the film, given the impression that this happened as a direct result of Jonathon’s death and a fight that preceded it that had essentially a “You’re not my real dad” flavor to it.
Clark’s world-walking is very reminiscent of Martha Jones, The Woman Who Walked the Earth, in Doctor Who except that Martha was trying to spread a legend by which belief would be garnered.
And Clark?
Clark is running from everyone and everything, trying to figure out who and what he is.
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