Berlinale Review: Sean Penn’s Ukraine Documentary ‘Superpower’ Gets Up Close With Super Inspiring Wartime Leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy
, the Oscar-winning actor displays a fixed-blade knife while traveling by car through the embattled country. He jokes to the camera, “All of Ukraine should feel safe now that I’m armed.” He adds, holding up fists clenched like a boxer’s, “Plus, I’ve got these.
“Ukraine is representing the greatest aspirations that we should all share,” Penn says, warning, “There’s no way it doesn’t come to everyone’s doorstep,” meaning those of us living in Western democracies. “It doesn’t matter if Ukraine is a NATO country or not.” The West may have largely ignored it, but Ukrainians knew from that point on they were locked in armed conflict with Russia, as Putin fomented a separatist movement in the Donbas region in the east. Still, when Russia began amassing troops, weaponry and armored vehicles near the Ukraine border in late 2021, many outside observers, and perhaps even Zelenskyy himself, doubted Putin would invade. Penn was among the naysayers.
That’s but one example of Zelenskyy’s shrewd and inspiring leadership at a time of existential threat to his nation. Penn expresses unabashed admiration, rightly so, at his capacity to rise to the perilous occasion . Volodymyr shares a similar given name to his Russian counterpart, but the similarities end there.
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