We are familiar with American rhetoric and, consequently, that of their films.
We can say that the American superhuman desire is sublimated in the cinematographic projection of superheroes with superhuman abilities. Superheroes who are allowed to runthrough red lights and who are outlaw but they do it for ”the good of the poor,” a form of Robin Hood who, invested with a higher power, illegally punish the bad guys that the good guys can never catch and fine because they are corrupt (among other things, we like outlaws who follow their own code of ethics by breaking the law. Let us remember that laws are made by men and that, as a result, they can also be in bad faith if not completely wrong or made in such a way as to be interpreted in the wrong way).
But in real life? What if Batman, Iron Man, Jesus Christ, and Topgun really existed? They would be put in jail instantly, unable to break the laws mentioned above: speeding in urban areas, violating Alpha airspace, walking on the waters of the nature park, violating privacy by photographing a MIG-28 in inverted flight, even though the MIG-28 is a fictional aircraft, but that’s not the point.
The more we desire something, the more we prove that it is actually alien to us.
Americans need superheroes, and, by extension, so do Europeans; there is, however, a substantial difference between the former and the latter, but this is not the place to discuss it. That need for heroism is actually a symptom of the impossibility of having it in real life. Here we put the usual disclaimer, namely that we are speaking in general terms, that we do not deny the accuracy of events: surely in North Carolina, during the floods, there were dozens and dozens of heroes, not comic book fakes but real ones! With real faces, bearded, beautiful and ugly. But in the end, there is no celebration of these real people; it remains a form of normalcy. This is perhaps because those people do not fly at Mach 2 in a suit or with their faces masked as bats.
Ordinary faces like the Su-27 pilot who shot down a $32 million American MQ-9 Reaper by dousing it with jet fuel(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqsSYp-51Hs). You don’t have to be as cool as Tom Cruise to be a badass pilot! The ridiculous thing about all this was that the Western press described the shooting down of the Reaper as “unprofessional”(https://www.eucom.mil/pressrelease/42314/russian-aircraft-collides-into-us-unmanned-system-in-international-waters). But what was an American drone doing in the Black Sea? Well… who knows…
Those rebellious figures of superheroes idolized by American cinematography are actually their enemies. Nemesis? No, it’s just normal life happening. Do you think those pilots were ordered to piss gas on it? No, it was pure creative genius.
The aircraft performing the Top Gun-style “reverse flight” is an Su-35 flying between an F-16 and a Tu-95, playing hide-and-seek with them (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR_PW8cArwk).
The picture is clear: the American pilot “intercepted” the Tu-95 that had pissed outside the pot over Alaska, and the half-crazy Russian pilot shows up without showing the slightest doubt. Creative genius versus sterile procedural order.
The American Top Gun is a movie with a cool character, the Russian one is in real life and has the face of someone who drives vans in Kamchatka.
Reality is here and now, screw the movies.