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Will Smith is definitely picking interesting roles. The Pursuit of Happyness. I Am Legend. Hancock. I enjoyed all three of the films, but I must admit that this last one wasn't quite what I expected. I expected something funnier, something more comic book, with a tinge of Smithian humor. What we got instead was a whole lot of Smith, with a twin billing with Charlize Theron. Warning: I'm going to wreck the movie for you if you haven't seen it. I find it nearly impossible to talk about it without revealing the movie's key twist.

Smith is a degenerate superhero at the beginning of the film as well as the middle, but by the end, as you might expect, he's really found the superhero inside of himself. Along the way, he proves that superheroes are a combination of born AND made, and that everyone has the capability of being a hero at least. And that's where it would end if this was a Disney movie.

But Hancock takes it a few steps further with the strange twist when it turns out that Mary (Theron) and Hancock (whose real name we never learn?) are both superheroes, and one of the bonded "couples" created to take care of the Earth. Apparently each of the other pairs has been killed off because when the couple decides to join and express their natural love for each other, they become mortal. So, to keep their powers intact, they must deny themselves the natural joining, and therefore fulfill their duty of protecting the world. Weird.

Hancock has lost his identity when we meet him, as a result of being injured while being too close to Mary eighty years ago. A superhero's identity is always a bit confused because many of them journey through the world not really knowing who they are; but here we have two separate cases of hidden identity: Hancock's is hidden from him because of the head trauma he experienced (and Mary's willful denial of him), and Mary's is hidden from the world because she chooses to live a more pedestrian life with no superhero-related responsibilities.

The movie doesn't really deal with it, but it seems to me that Hancock is more of a hero than Mary will ever be, while Mary's human husband is more of a hero than either of them. He is the PR consultant who wants to save the world and fails miserably at landing jobs because he tells companies to give their best products away to people who are less fortunate. In the end, he's the reason Hancock gets heroic: it's more than spin, it's inspiration.

In the discovery of Mary, and the discussion that follows, the way in which she describes the two of them (and their kind) caught my attention the most fully. She tells Hancock that they are gods, or angels, or superheroes. The descriptions change in how societies see them, but the powers stay the same. I still go back to my questions before I saw the movie: What would have happened if Jesus got confused about being a god, or an angel or a superhero? What if he had run like Jonah from his direction and his mission? Where would the world be now?

Thank God Jesus didn't get confused.