The Beauty of Transformers One and the Parallels with Youth

Hello LinkedIn. It's Saturday and I'm back with the optional yet mandatory entertainment post. Confession first: this was meant to be a regular post, but turned out way more to warrant a full write-up. The regular post on Maharashtra Elections will come in due time. For now, feast on another entertainment post, where I write about media that I loved watching.

I'll start with a question:

Did you watch the recent "Transformers One" movie?

The marketing dept did not do justice to how awesome the movie turned out to be. Even for a newbie to the Hasbro media universe, this might be the perfect starting point for the fans.

While I write my thoughts on the movie for my blog(it will be out on chaandchakor.blog later next week), I am left with burning questions.

Of the two main characters in the movie, turns out I am more like D-16 than Orion. And why is that?

1. The youthful energy of overhauling the system:

This is the characterstic trait of Gen Z and many like me. We wear energy and rebellion with pride. We want to put away incremental progress and rather reinvent the system. For us, the system is broken.

2. Holding grudges:

In the path to change, we are guided on being realistic and the need to not reinvent the wheel. However, I find it challenging to balance the will to change with the need to conform. And that indeed is D-16 for you.

3. The world is grey and not purely white:

There is a pivotal scene in the climax of the movie wherein Orion saves their worst enemy from execution, with the retort:

"Hey D, we are better than that."

Herein lies the incredulous callous nature of Orion. We the youth are like voters. We cannot let it slide. And that makes us grey, like the world around us.

4. From grey to white?

We, no doubt, are like D-16. However, while we embrace and recognise our faults, we also work on enhancing our values. The growth of our character falls on a spectrum. We have our guilty pleasures, and also our own crusades.

This, in essence, leads us to a path of becoming more white than black.

So, while D-16 becomes Galvatron and Orion becomes Optimus Prime, I become the Bee(Bumblebee, if you will) that embraces the highs and lows. I also get to be the iconic Chevrolet Camaro that is the mascot for Transformers the world over.

We are here. I am waiting. We are waiting!

Cue music: What I've Done...