A bunch of us celebrated the end of senior year by going to see X-Men: First Class last night. It appealed to me a lot because it was actually my first X-Men film/real exposure to the world of Doctor Xavier and co. Similar to watching the latest Star Trek movie last year, it was a cool new world with compelling storylines that I was getting to know all at once.
Marvel has made a lot of money from this super hero motif, one of normal people becoming unnatural people in some way or form, and then adapting to their new world. They are so successful because everyone wants to be taken to this whole new world, to make believe that there are these cool characters out there that can defy normal rules of gravity. Now, starting in a couple days, us graduates have our own real-life opportunity to do just that.
The grand connection: graduating college is like getting this new power. Albeit it is not that cool or rare, but for the first time, we have a freedom and unwritten script ahead of us.
With great power comes great responsibility... or something like that.
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