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Review: War for the Planet of Apes (2017)

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A Perfect Finish Score: 8/10 The film takes colours from different films, mythologies and history.  It starts with showing how a few apes have already sided with the humans losing all hopes of winning a war against their modern weaponry. Caesar tries to keep it calm until a betrayal begins a chain of events that leads to having his family killed. The whole 140 minutes relies on Caesar’s journey to Colonel to avenge his family, their capture and a war that eventually makes the earth a planet of apes. The realism carried in the character sketch of the ideal leader Caesar, his slogan, his war keeping up the moral integrity at the same time carrying an emotionally deep understanding to his motivation is a straight reminiscent of Moses leading Israelites to freedom from slavery. Woody’s character as the colonel with a cheeky maniacal fashioned avatar talking with convincing statements on his actions reminds you of the Brando’s much more demonic and psychotic Kurtz in Apoca

The Last Letter

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I have used the word “last letter” many times before, I know. It is something to do with you though, I keep coming back and write you one more letter. I have “Desperately” by Don Williams playing in the background as I write this letter, the song which we used to sing for each other, only this time it is our memories who is singing. We met on the fateful night of 21 st  February, 2007, to change each other’s life forever. I have probably impacted your life more than anyone. I’m sure John (current boyfriend) will leave me behind in a couple of years or possibly, already has. We started our roller coaster ride which touched more lows than highs. Through them all, what kept us together was the new feeling we kept experiencing, it was beautiful and it was refreshing, even the fights. But it finally reached a point beyond repair when I thought calling it off is the only good thing. Life is strange, it still kept making us meet in the most unbelievable co-incidences for sometime unt