The reason why I continued watching it again in so short a time was that during the second time of watching it the philosophical idea underlying the movie seamed to trigger an interesting line of thought inside my head. Of course the underlying idea that the movie rests on is based on the Darwinian idea of evolution. A "mutation" was what happened to bring x-men about. A mutation is a term from biology, specifically from genetics. Mutations occur naturally in nature and have clear examples in plants. In the movie what happened to x-men were natural mutations. An attempt by Magnito to induce an artificial mutation failed and resulted in the horrible death of the person undergoing it.
Though the movie was reflecting the Darwinian theory of evolution and applying it to humans with both it's evolution part and the "survival for the fittest" proposition exemplified in Magnito's attempts to survive and leave out the other normal humans, yet the movie does have another level beside this one. It addresses the everlasting theme present in many American movies, the theme of understanding, accepting and not rejecting the other, the other who is different from us. This theme is present in many American movies and is clear here right from the beginning. Load voices arguing the dangers of what they called mutants were heard right from the beginning. The other voice calls them x-men instead, or at least that's why they called themselves. The movie is trying to say that both x-men and normal humans can live together in peace accepting one another.
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