miscellaneous

"Raising a kid."

Hmm.. He was not really alone actually. Karena Logan masih harus menghidupi dan merawat Charles Xavier yang tengah mengidap scizophernia. Dibantu oleh Caliban, mutan albino pelacak mutan. Hayo, mengulang kata mutan. Untuk merawat manusia normal yang mengidap Scizophernia saja sulit, apalagi merawat mutan dengan kekuatan pikiran paling hebat di dunia. Seizure yang datang dan pergi pada Charles berdampak kurang baik bagi sekitarnya, hal ini menjadi beban tambahan bagi nanny-nya.

Laura bocah perempuan berumur 11 tahun, membawa Logan pada perjalanan emosional terakhirnya spoiler. Disajikan dengan sinematografi yang apik, tone warna yang pas, tidak dark laiknya seri DC, pun tidak secerah seri Marvel lainnya. Pemilihan pallete yang tepat untuk mengemas sensitivitas Logan di usia senjanya. Peran Laura dimainkan dengan apik oleh artis cilik pendatang baru, banyak komentar baik dilayangkan untuknya. Menimbulkan rasa penasaran akankah X-23 kembali berlaga pada layar marvel lainnya di masa yang akan datang.

Logan (2017) / Source: Google then Adobe Capture by me

Seperti film superhero pada umumnya, ada harga yang harus dibayar untuk kemenangan protagonis. Jalan cerita bergerak cukup cepat, dan as expected from Marvel they care about details. Misalnya dengan memberi gambaran bencana yang terjadi pada X-Men setahun silam di Westchester, cukup jelas terlebih diceritakan sendiri oleh Charles. Peran Calliban ternyata menjadi harga yang harus dibayar Logan untuk mengantarkan Laura, pada koordinat yang Ia kira fana. Perjalanan akhir Logan menjadi awal baru bagi para mutan kloning muda, yang harus bertahan hidup dengan koloni yang tersisa.

Well, bye Old Man Logan!

I suddenly have an urge to write about this matter, social triggers.

It's getting real, and getting on my head a lot lately. I am bothered.

Have you encountered one?

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There is some points in life when phenomenons become a social triggers.

Throwback to February 2015 when one of my friend became the first to graduate from our year. It became a phenomenon that she graduated at 3,5 years, an ideal year for Indonesian PARENTS. After her, people were rushing and they also graduated quickly. Or at least, quicker than others (me counted). Triggered.

The laughing were getting less and less. The talking were getting heavier as we talked more about theories and methods, which we never thought we have to remember. As people kept denying the fact that we need to finish UNU600 quickly, clock never stops tickling. We were laughing helplessly. Re-reading books we forgot when we bought them, staring at the empty library wall we never visit before. 

As the hardworks paid, we came to the finish lane. Not everyone came at the same time, but that doesn't matter. What matter is we finish it. Everyone has a different path, a way God has written for us since we were born or even before. Or even right after He made the universe, He wrote that I will graduate at 2016. Who the fuck knows? Who knows everything?

"Now, our college days has ended. The real life begins." The famous quote after graduation.

So, those 23 - 24 years of life weren't a real life?

The social trigger, seeing friends graduating one by one. Didn't matter in the end.

As how we called it, it was a trigger. You are the one who has control over your life, your actions, your planning. The trigger might have nothing to do with you. Or it might drives you crazy. Doesn't matter. Your thoughts, matter.

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