What an interesting week this past week has been.

My personal knowledge about superheroes goes as far as my understanding of politics which is roughly around the same as the number of miles I have ran this year, approximately zero. 

To appreciate the following, you should already have watched Wonder Women (2017), Gone Girl (2014) or at least have wiki-ed the lot. No seriously, go.

So this past week, the little red dot made international news with a small famiLEE matter of sorts. I won't go into the grisly details as I'd only come up with flawed arguments and perspective on the whole issue. There are, however, various similar cross-references which came to mind as I pondered on the various factors given the construct of the events.

Wonder Woman was honestly a sub-par movie which had its few moments to me. The action sequence was pleasing and no doubt Gal Gadot made it all that much better. It did irked me that most modern day films had to have a love element which seemed forced like the emergence of all the "Instagram-worthy" foods at the Geylang Bazaar. Script writers and food creators alike should really chill on the love and food coloring respectively. The love aspect in Wonder Woman was evidently less excruciating to watch than the one in Salazar's Revenge but that's just comparing 2 different kinds of fecal material.

A friend of my recommended Gone Girl as an alternative love movie and man, if you haven't already watched the film, please do. What intrigued me about this story was not just the main characters and their dynamics but more importantly how they manipulated society and the mass media to gain traction for their individual causes. Fascinating was it to see how group-think and fed information could alter the final outcome of schemes.

Pardon the haphazardness of my writing. Okay, so what really spurred me on to pen down my thoughts was a post on a "tall tree basking in the golden hour". The groupie syndrome in the comment section of that post was for me akin to idolizing Wonder Woman as a figure of empowerment for women. Of course I won't take that away from little girls but if you look deeper, Diana was more god than human and for that same reason is why I would not put Superman as the male equivalent of said figure. Gods just do not fully understand the fears of normal men. If you asked me, I'd put Black Widow above Diana as a candidate for empowering women (at least she was  not made from clay). Just FYI, I'd put Bruce Wayne as the male counterpart (RIP Adam West). If you really need a female figure to look up to, try Amazing Amy. Amazing Amy was remarkable in her understanding of people and various subjects (heard she's more amazing in the book though).

Speaking of books, the saga this past week as with all issues with any tint of local politics always brings back history lessons taught by a science relief teacher when I was 8 or 9. A man of big stature with a wizened look hovered over us with first hand accounts of tales from the past. He talked of events which would be deemed brutal and immoral in present day. Events that could have been easily covered up with propaganda and "new syllabuses" in the books planted in schools. Such tales could easily rip holes in the fabric of society but it is this same fabric that has been painstakingly woven for generations that we now draw comfort from. All in all, taking things for face value just would not be wise.