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The Joy of Positivity: Sky High (2005)

The Joy of Positivity: Sky High (2005)

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2005’s Sky High subscribes to an earlier, more innocent conception of superheroes as wholesome, all-American icons of bravery, not broken, tormented loners whose grim existences reflect the inexorable horror of contemporary life and God’s icy eternal silence. 

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