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Godzilla vs. Kong review-A Spectacular Ba�le of Beasts

From the director of V/H/S(2012) and cri�cally acclaimed The
Guest(2014) Adam Wingard, comes the epic adventure Godzilla vs. King
Kong, a movie so self aware of its tropes and reverberates everything we
loved in its previous entries. It brings forward from Kong: the skull island
and The Godzilla Franchise the best emo�onal bonds and underlying
themes of Man vs. Nature which do see light of the day and shines in
those �tular moments which are made to appeal to the audiences.

From start to finish, “Godzilla vs. Kong” �lts the viewer’s sympathy toward Kong. Its primate-centric bent is first
apparent in a trick borrowed from “2001: A Space Odyssey”: Kong’s discovery and use of tools. At the movie’s start,
Kong is entombed in a biodome replica of Skull Island, where he’s under surveillance by a team of scien�sts, headed
by Dr. Ilene Andrews . Ilene is also the guardian of a girl named Jia , the last surviving member of the island’s
indigenous Iwi people. Jia, who is deaf, communicates with Kong in sign language, a fact that takes Ilene by surprise.
Jia knows that Kong is res�ve in his new home, and Kong proves it by pulling a tree from the ground and hurling it,
spear-like, at the sky, which is not a sky at all but a simulacrum; the tree sha�ers it, revealing a high-tech framework
beneath. Kong wants to be free, but the sealed-off dome is all that protects him from the ferocious Godzilla,
because it is said that the world isn’t big enough for two alpha �tans.

Godzilla’s ferocity is displayed soon therea�er, in an a�ack on Pensacola, Florida, at a huge industrial compound
called Apex Cyberne�cs. Its secre�ve opera�ons have aroused the suspicions of a local
conspiracy-theorist-qua-inves�gator named Bernie, who gets a job there in order to glean informa�on, which he
then dispenses in a hec�c podcast that obsesses a local teen-ager, Madison Russell, and her friend Josh. Apex is run
by Walter Simmons, whose self-righteous, ego- mad scheme to save the world—from Godzilla—and take credit for
it propels the ac�on into so- called Hollow Earth, to tap into its mighty source of energy. A hollow-earth researcher
named Nathan Lind is recruited for the effort, and he persuades Ilene to recruit Kong. So her team transports Kong,
by ocean, to Antarc�ca, where he’s expected to find the portal to the subterranean energy source.

Kong’s journey, on a colossal barge tugged by an aircra� carrier and supported by a whole fleet, exists only as a
pretext for the first fight scene between the ape and the rep�le. The best part of that ba�le takes place early on,
when, a�er some early grappling and stomping, the pair face off on the deck of a carrier and Kong, like the
apotheosis of a bar brawler, hauls off and slugs Godzilla with a mighty roundhouse punch.

My ra�ng for this movie is 8/10.
- Maha Lakshmi, XI

Raw avocado makes bi�er guacamole and that is always my fault."

Throw away bi�er guacamole or eat it because you made it,
A dilemma that never ends, no ma�er how much you hate it
Throw it away
If, in the end, it is someone's fault.

Note: with a lot of blame going around in the world about how some decisions are bad and how some
lifestyles are bad or how some ideologies are bad or just bois... The avocado I cut was just one day
premature. If there were an avocado incubator, I'd have keep it and sung to it and nursed it's ripeness. And
eaten it with fresh bread.

But anything bi�er must be blamed, as it would seem.
If we must blame anything, then we should all just blame me for thinking that the avocado was ripe
because it looked ripe, it felt ripe and wanted it so badly to ripe.
Yeah that's a poem. The bi�er guacamole- a conclusion drawn too soon.

- Dhanvi Hrudya, XI

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