Anyone remember Zoolander? The bad guy brainwashes the born braindead male model Zoolender into believing that child labour laws take away kids’ rights to work for themselves.

Then read this in which…

Appearing for the petitioners, senior counsel Arun Jaitley contended that the impugned legislation was unconstitutional as it violated the fundamental right of women to choose their own profession and discriminated against them on the basis of their gender.

Also…

…business houses and the hospitality industry, where liquor and other intoxicating drugs are served, cannot compel women to serve the same against their wishes.

If you are like me, you have more fun watching movies the second and third times over. Missing bits fall into place, you are ready for parts that flashed past you too fast the first time. There is also the added fun of having an as yet uninitiated one around so you can keep nudging him/her before the juicy bits come on screen.

Picture then, me with my roomie watching The Matrix Reloaded. The man hadn’t seen a comic book till he was twenty or so. Before the movie started, I had my suspicions about the seemingly overloaded dose of sci-fi I was going to administer him.

An hour into the movie, the suspicions remained. When the credits came up I thought I had imagined the discomfort. The guy seemed to be taking it well.

A bit too well.

Third time over, I realised what I have always known. It is useful to pay attention to suspicions. He pointed at Laurence Fishburne and said, “This guy…. Trinity…. he’s a robot right?”

Gasp! The Wachowski brothers would have turned in their graves. But they are not dead.