From Sean Penn’s The Gunman to Michael Mann’s Blackhat, the thinking man’s action hero is back, and attempting to put the art back in Sartre
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It’s almost as if Jean-Paul Sartre himself appeared on screen toting a .44 Magnum (“There is no reality except in action, punk!”). The existential hero is making a comeback in mainstream cinema, with Sean Penn’s ex-US special forces soldier in The Gunman the latest of several new incarnations.
Existentialism has had a rough ride ever since Sartre first declared “man is condemned to be free” in Being and Nothingness, in 1943. Criticised by Christians, mocked by Marxists and pushed around by postmodernists, poor existentialism is by now probably wondering what the point of its existence is.
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