Super Hero? You, Me or .....?

I’ll like to think that life is like how this movie started- by propelling one to ask what happened and then the story unfolds.

Why? In that way, we maintain a certain curiousity to life and are always interested and interests makes us want to be involved.

The first ‘real’ question was when Dr Yinsen, his fellow captive asked John, “Who do you have to go home to”*

That was like ‘bang!’ and he realized - nobody.

The second was during Dr Yinsen’s dying moments, “Make sure you make your life count.”*

In that epiphany moment for John, which a sacrifice of a life was a means to it, he realized the sum of his life at that moment – he had everything yet strangely nothing.

So armed with an awakened conscience, John decided to reform his life and to think through what really matters. Betrayal and intrigue are added, as the cause that he was now fighting for, is set against a backdrop of wealth and power. And with wealth and power, we’ve read and seen enough to know humans will never be immune to these temptations, rise another powerful villain.

Iron Man’s theme about a superhero, “A hero with a list of character flaws”* who rights the wrong that has been done, add the good looks and of being born privilege, will certainly sell the movie. Perhaps that is why Hollywood is able to reach many more than we do – it reads the people well and feeds into their ‘needs’. After all, once in a while, we too would like to be a hero.

But ours is also a story etched against a backdrop of injustice, power, wealth and privilege for the selected few. But unlike the story we don’t have a suit that can help us right the wrongs. That the Bible tells us that God is the superhero ultimately. Ironically his suit is human beings and his timing? As long as the history of mankind exists.

While I already know the ending to that, I still can’t wait for the final frame.

Watched any movie recently? Shocked at how you’ve ‘connected’ with the movie? Why not take time to soak in why it stirred you and pen it down. Those are the moments something within is resonating, don’t let it pass you by.

*All quotes from the movie is a reinterpretation of the writer’s point of view