06_ Marriage of a Thousand Lies

    I listen the audio version of Marriage of a Thousand Lies through Amazon, I can't really finish the entire book because my language issue took me so many time to finish a book, but I tried to understand the story about this book. It's kind of painful to watch Lucky's relationship with Nisha, also she can't see a way forward. And it also feel bleak as Lucky bounces between her options. It's sad, but I can related to her situation somehow.
    In my country, our traditional family arrange everything for us, such as occupation or marriage even more. They always say that it's for our own good. They believe their experiences and perspectives are never wrong.  Confucianism is the central idea for Asian people, it's talk about honor the aged and the wise, respect the leader such as things. So the elder can always affect our life. Fortunately it's changing and getting better now, but still have some conservative people in my hometown doing such as things. Homosexuality in my country is a serious issue, it affecting the traditional society and conservative idea for last generation people. We are still trying to fight for their right, and we are trying to legislate the policy for them. But the most difficult thing is convincing the elder. Most of the families do not accept homosexuality because they educated by the traditional ideas. The limitation of traditional society are making difficult situation for homosexual, they are afraid of telling their family who they truly are. Mostly the homosexuality in my country are not happy, they have to pretend they are straight to become and reach their family's expectation. The characters remind me a character from a film in American Beauty, the gay father who roles by Chris Copper.

05_ Cosmopolis

    "A rat became the unit of currency."

    Story is about a promising young billionaire, Eric, quickly collapsed in a day, and it also symbolizes the collapse of the entire society.  Eric do everything inside of a white limousine, talk shop, have sex, health checkup and more. The white limousine symbolize status of Eric, also a shell to shut people and the society out. The limousine collapse overnight after Eric from rich become rags. His career has been significant downs from heaven to hell. Instead of saying that the reality tear him down, I would say that the personality of Eric can not afford an unexpectedly fail. Eventually he gives up himself and let himself destruction. Everything in this world are so unpredictable, maybe just need a single moment, all the collapse comes fast and fierce.
    In the end of the story before killer shoot, the killer mention that he was waiting for main character's rescue. If those upper class people in this society are able to care more about mid-class even the working-class people rather than exploit them arbitrarily, perhaps those turbulent protests will not happened.

04_ The Secret History of Wonder Woman

   It's always interesting to understand the prototype of a fictional character. I finished the movie version of the story and read some chapters of The Secret History of Wonder Woman. Even though I didn't really finish the book, but it's still interesting to compare the difference about these two medium. The wonder woman made for some reasons, and what's the inspiration of her ability had strong connection with her creator, Marston. For me, the movie version seems to romantic and unrealistic. The film maker kind of on the Marston's side and positive about him, and maybe it's for some marketing consideration, the main character have to be attractive to audience. But I think the great people were not Marston himself, I believe the females behind him are the ones who made him succeed.
  For making a theme park of wonder woman, I may use Olive Byrne as the main character to represent this theme park. Personally I like her the most compare to others. I want to tell my guest about her stories, backgrounds and how she supported Marston. I believe that she sacrificed the most, and also she is the original prototype of wonder woman. That's would be a great connection to introduce what made her became wonder woman. At that time period, the feminism just raise, and also DC is facing it own crisis at that time. Interact about their historical background and how BDSM affect to Marston would be the good resource to point out how him create wonder woman by using Olive Byrne as prototype.