Name: 光明本的結局解釋 (The Ending Of Brightburn Explained)
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The details may be different, but make no mistake, Brightburn is a reimagining of Superman's

origin story, asking what would've happened to Clark Kent if the emergence of his powers

The answer is a lot of carnage, with the promise of more to come.

In the newer DC movies, Superman is known to say that the S symbol on his chest stands

That detail makes it quite chilling to consider the possible meanings of the symbol Brandon

Just like Superman's "S" most obviously stands for "Superman," Brandon's symbol

seems to be his initials: "Brandon Breyer."

It could also stand for the town's name, "Brightburn," which eventually becomes the superhero-like

But the symbol also serves two less obvious purposes.

First, it hints that Brandon's instability isn't necessarily as new to him as the emergence

We see the drawing scrawled all over his notebook, suggesting he's been fixating on this ominous

Second, it acts as a tribute to the old comic book trope of giving characters first and

last names starting with the same letter, or in the case of Clark Kent, the same consonant

sound: characters like Lois Lane, Lex Luthor, Peter Parker, and so on.

You know Brandon is entering his instant kill mode when he slips a creepy face mask over

You might wonder why Brandon does that, since mask-wearing is one of the few superhero tropes

"See he doesn't really want to hurt anybody."

While Brandon does take some precautions to conceal his identity, that eventually seems

When he attacks his family members, Brandon dons the mask even though it's clear his victims

Second, Superman didn't wear a mask, and that may be the point, setting Brandon visually

Most importantly, it sets Brandon apart from us.

One of the most telling moments in Brightburn comes when Brandon tells his aunt Merilee

His mask is his way of telling his victims that even though he doesn't look like an alien,

he is something different, and they should be afraid.

Why Brandon ends the life of his father Kyle isn't much of a mystery.

In a misguided effort to stop his son before he can kill again, Kyle shoots Brandon in

the back of the head while the boy is distracted on a hunting trip.

Unfortunately, Brandon is as bulletproof as his Kryptonian inspiration, and there's

The death of Brandon's mother Tori is different.

What's most telling is the way Brandon kills her.

After she attempts to stab him with a shard of metal from his spaceship, he carries her

above the clouds and lets go, allowing her to fall to the ground and die.

Throughout Brightburn, Tori defends Brandon in spite of mounting evidence of his crimes.

Even before she tries to kill him with a weapon she knows he's vulnerable to, her words

Tori is the last human Brandon has any faith in.

Even though he knows he's literally a different species, on some level he wants Tori to be

like him, perhaps so he won't be so alone.

When he flies her into the sky and lets go, it can almost be seen as a kind of a test.

Maybe he doesn't want her to fall, maybe he wants her to fly alongside him, proving

once and for all that she truly is his "real" mother.

When she predictably plummets to her death, it's almost like a final confirmation to Brandon

Right after killing his mother, Brandon causes a passenger jet to crash down on the Breyer

We never see exactly what he does in his attack.

First we see the jet heading toward him, and then we cut to the next morning, when FBI

Brandon is eating a cookie while resting in the back of an ambulance, looking as innocent

The most practical reason for Brandon destroying the plane is to hide his crimes.

But there's also a more symbolic reason, Brightburn begins with a crash and ends with a crash.

When Brandon's spaceship crashes on the Breyer property in the beginning of the film, a kindly

couple saves his life and raises him as their own.

Years later, Brandon causes a crash on the same property; not only does he not save anyone,

It's a message to the world that the mercy his parents showed him when he was a baby

Brightburn ends with news reports from the not-too-distant future showing that Brandon's

We see huge buildings falling from his assaults, as the news media begins referring to the

strange flying phenomenon over Brightburn by the shortened name of simply "Brightburn."

But while the montage starts with more traditional media outlets, it ends on the loony fringes,

focusing on a video broadcast from a conspiracy theorist played by Michael Rooker called the

Big T. The program shows footage of Brightburn's destruction and urges viewers to wake up and

But Brightburn isn't the only threat he mentions.

The broadcaster also makes reference to a half-man, half-fish entity that's reportedly

He also tells us about a so-called "witch woman" who's supposedly strangling people

After what we've seen at this point, it's clear that these aren't Big T's fantasies.

If he kept going we'd probably hear about a half-man, half-bat and a man who moves so

While this whole sequence could be a setup for a sequel about a veritable Legion of Real-Life

Doom, it also works as a nod to the comics that inspired the film.

More than anything, it helps to seal in Brightburn's biggest message, that in a different light,

our greatest heroes can also be our worst nightmares.

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