HBO’s real-life ‘Superheroes’ are gallant yet unsettlingly goofy
Here they come to save the . . . well, that's the problem with adopting the secret lifestyle and ethical codes of a "real-life superhero": Nobody requires your services nearly as much as you're hoping to provide them.
Ultimately, as we learn in Michael Barnett's compelling yet conflicted HBO documentary "Superheroes," today's supermen (and the occasional wonder woman) wind up handing out rolls of toilet paper to homeless people.
In "Superheroes," which airs Monday night, Barnett travels the country to profile a handful of the 300 or so self-styled characters who are attempting to live a comic-book ideal. These are not the people you've seen at amusement parks and Comic-Con and along Hollywood Boulevard, who are simply playing dress-up for photo-ops. Something in the comics lore has spoken to real-life superheroes on a personal level, and they are serious — if perhaps a touch delusional. They see society as troubled, and they are especially disenchanted with law enforcement. "The N.Y.P.D., even the government is completely unreliable," says Lucid, a Brooklyn-based superhero.
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