No one can doubt that ‘Super Mario Bros’ is the movie of the moment. It is breaking box office records and is about to enter the list of titles that have exceeded 1,000 million dollars in revenue. There are many things in it that are worth highlighting, but I tI am very clear that the best thing in the film is Lumalee, a character who is wishing to die. And she makes all the sense in the world.
The origin of the character
In order to understand the reasons why Lumalee is willing to leave this world, thus undermining the trust of her fellow inmates, you have to look for it in lore from the Mario universe in video games. Lumalee belongs to the Luma species, which made its first appearance in the wonderful ‘Super Mario Galaxy’, being at the end of said video game where we find the explanation for this curious tendency of the character.
During the final moments of ‘Super Mario Galaxy’, a group of Lumas joyfully sacrifice themselves, being sucked into a black hole created by Bowser. In this way, they save the galaxy and the game has a happy ending. It is therefore logical that Lumalee is willing to do the same in ‘Super Mario Bros. The Movie’. In the end it is his destiny, as it was also Mr. Meeseeks’s in ‘Rick and Morty’, making things very complicated when something prevented him from achieving it.
The funny thing is that the film does not make the slightest mention of this fact, so his personality may be shocking to some viewers -the truth is that I have not heard any complaints about there being a character who could be interpreted as someone with tendencies suicidal, but it would not surprise me at all if this possible controversy has escaped me. For others, it is still a wonderful nod to the original video games, although it is also It is true that one cannot help but think what will become of the rest of Lumas, since only Lumalee appears…
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