The First Class

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"If you use half of your concentration to look normal, then you're only half-paying attention to whatever you are doing"

- Eric (Magneto) to Raven (Mystique)

X-Men: First Class(2011)

Part of everybody's childhood is watching cartoons. In my case, one of my favorite cartoon is X-men: the animated series. Back then, I didn't understand yet the social problems it inflicts to its audience, all I knew is that having super powers like the X-men is cool.

When Marvel studios decide to relieve the X-men phenomena into movies, I became so excited. X-men, X2, X-men 3: The last stand, X-men Origins:Wolverine, and now X-men: First Class are not only comic-based superhero movies, but these movies reflect a social cancer that every society in this world have--discrimination.

Also in the recent release of its animated series: X-men Evolution, and Wolverine& the X-men, the society in which x-men are living in, is similar with the society where I'm living at. It is where people condemn those who are different, and those are violating their "norms" because of biological differences. One point in time, I thought that "If people just know how to respect differences, perhaps, peace can be bought for a peso, or even the word discrimination will be considered as taboo in each society".