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Well, what can i say that a quite few people on this site haven't already said? The movie rocked...hard. I expected it to be a pretty good film with Jackson at the helm, for we've seen what he does with properties that he has a deep respect and love for...LOTR, anyone? What i didn't expect was to feel myself trying to hold back a whimpy tear at the end of the film. I'm a grown man, for God's sake!! LOL. Everything, from the story to the CGI to the acting to the feeling and emotion that were present throughout this film, was damn near perfect. What a few people on this site have been saying about pets and Kong and the woman (or the Woman and the ape , depending on your view of things as they were presented) makes sense, as far as them feeling like they'd lost pets all over again, bringing that feeling back. Certainly understandable. What made me want to shed a tear, though, wasn't this comparison, but the thought of what the film was basically about. Exploitation and Love. I'm black, so as some people here might assume and understand, it brought thoughts of how my people were brought and sent from Africa to America and other places to be used and used and used and used until they were used up and thrown out or sold or killed. Whatever the case was in each situation. When Kong died at the end of the film, i felt very bad for Kong and Darrow, but i felt worse for the people who had done this to the pair of them. I felt worse because people, even in film and television, not to mention books and other forms of media, never seem to learn their lesson. Some of you may say, "This was only a movie and why would you get so literal, so serious, about it?" I'd say because despite the fact that this was only a movie, things like this happen everyday, in marriages, child-parent relationships, in businesses and clubs, in gvmnt., all over the world, as John Coffee said before he rode the lightning. Things like this keep happening, but we never seem to learn better because of it. The movie was Brilliant. Oh, and i never meant to turn anything into a racial debate, so before it gets started, i'd like to make that point clear. The movie, to me, at least, is as clear now as it was all those years ago whe it first hit the Big Screen. Beyond all the special effects, CGI, brillaint acting, explosive scenes and all that, it was basically a story about mankind's inhumanity and lack of understanding (or the I don't care attitude) for each other, or even for the living things around us.
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