RIFLE RANGE BOY

Waiting for Godot (play, book) Writer: Samuel Beckett Thanks to MEV for the suggestion; for helping me in my journey to crack open my hard shell of ignorance.  Albert Camus and Samuel Beckett fall into the same category of philosophers-writers who lived through World War 2-ravaged France to build a very nihilistic view of life's purpose. Samuel Beckett, an Irishman, who spent a good portion of his life in France, can be credited to have started the 'theatre of absurdism' and received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969 for his books and drama. The life that is laid in front of us is apparently meaningless. In this tragi-comic play, we are shown as headless chickens running, not knowing what to do and not knowing what is expected of us. We are so fickle, always losing track of our purpose and get swooned over easily by events around us. We eagerly await instructions from people in authority without an iota of a clue about the right thing to do. But we wait and follow like...

Wonder Woman @ WW84 (2020) I remember my school teacher telling me this. Doing well at the first attempt does not ensure that things will pen nicely the second time around. In fact, it is more difficult to excel on the second occasion. There is mounting pressure to prove that the first win was no flash in the pan. These pearls of wisdom rang so clearly as I restless laboured through the two and a half-hour of scenes after scenes of a disjointed story whose plot did not make any sense.  After an exciting outing with the first of the current franchise, I thought this would be like its predecessor. I expected a well-crafted story with visually pleasing cinematography ending with a message sprinkled with philosophy or meaning of life. It was a disappointment. To the followers of the DC Cinematic Universe, the story might be confusing. According to Batman vs Superman, WW was supposed to be missing somewhere after World War 1, and Superman had to search high and low to trace her in...