It’s been 20 years, and nobody’s yet made a superhero movie sequence that tops this one, where there are clear stakes, the hero is *saving* people, and is also taking physical punishment for their efforts, but I never quite got why the conductor has to be such a dick

Little girl and patient friend. Taken in France during the reconstruction period after the devastation of WWI - ca. 1917 - 1924. www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/...