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Joker: Folie à Deux (Madness shared by two; 2024) Director: Todd Philips No matter how much they suck at anything, adults are not supposed to tell children they are wrong. They are supposed to be encouraged, only showered with positive vibes. It is believed to give them self-confidence and stretch them to greater heights beyond their capacity.  Nobody is graded. Everyone gets a medal for participating. Everyone is a winner, and he is exceptional and made to believe.  I have news for you. Go into the world and realise that nobody gives two hoots to you. Everybody is in a hurry. Nobody has time to listen and talk to you. Every man is an island. To make matters worse, the others have no qualms about stepping on or over you to achieve their goals. Losing you is just one step closer to their goals. There is no time to coach or wait for you. It is a man-eat-man world out there. Living under the hawking eyes of helicopter parenting or even chip-implanted surveillance, these snowflake...

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...