Introduction I was shocked and breathless but also with great excitement at the scene where Wonder Woman first appeared in Batman v Superman. As her empowering theme song started to play, almost everyone in the theater applauded. Some even could not hold but let their “Ohhhhh” let loose. People welcomed Wonder Woman. Being one among …
I happened to give the Fallout series a try. The video game series started in 1997, but it was until this year 2017 that I began to play Fallout 4 (released in 2015). The game was beyond my expectation of what defines a good game. It has an interesting storyline, fantastic game mechanism, and a …
I once had a girl Or should I say She once had me? I heard about both the song Norwegian Wood by the Beatles and the novel by Murakami long ago. During my young age, the song to me was… meh (I was no Beatles fan, and even now, I am not). The novel, as …
Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men (2006) struck me deeply in many aspects. Eleven years after its release, I finally decided to watch Children of Men for leisure. It was neither entertaining nor relaxing. As I attempted to pick a movie for my leisure of temporarily fleeing from the cruel reality I am experiencing, Children of Men …
I examine the question “What is it like to be a human?” by exploring the opposite direction: “What is it like to not be a human?” Through the game The Last of Us, I approach the big question from the disciplines of biology, sociology, environmentalism and moral theories.