MORE ON DARKLIGHT from Lisa Keys in the Forward:

If it sounds like the stuff of a Hollywood blockbuster, then that's exactly the director's point. "I wanted to present Lilith essentially as a Jewish superhero," Platt said in an interview with the Forward. "I wanted to take her, take this Jewish myth, and put it in the context of modern pop culture allegory. I wanted to see if there was a way to deal with a Jewish-inspired journey, a Jewish heroine, in a pop culture context."

Unfortunately, however, Platt's eagerness to universalize Lilith's appeal means that the myth is quickly stripped of its ancient mystical origins, replaced with a trajectory that's oddly similar to that of Superman. Let's see... a humanlike creature born in a now-extinct homeland, bearing extra-human powers, who is immortal, save a sole organic substance that can bring our hero to ruin? Check, check, check.