“How can someone not think it’s real? I don’t understand. In the test screenings people said, ‘With AI, no one trusts anything.’ So, okay, in the movie Mister Terrific says, ‘I know those computer forensics guys, there is no way.’ That’s Mister Terrific, he’s as smart as Lex Luthor. Then I have Mori, the Secretary of Defense, say, ‘Think whatever you think about Luthor, but it’s real.’ And then the clincher is that Ghurkos and Lex are walking together and Ghurkos say, ‘Ahh you doctored the message. This is great.’ And Lex says, ‘It’s not doctored. It’s real, and who thought it would be his own parents to bring him down?’”
I don’t know much about Superman’s lore so I thought maybe this was a real twist from the comics. But either way, I believed it was real because the movie was very clearly trying to communicate to the audience that it was. The amount of characters who just so adamantly said it so firmly felt very clear. It even felt a little heavy handed. Like they were worried people would think it was fake actually. So at some point I was like well I guess I’m meant to believe it’s real so I’ll believe that and stop worrying about it.