No, I will not elaborate.
Okay, I will elaborate a little. I hate disney movies, they’re all slop, but I loved the last PotA trilogy (Rise, Dawn, War), in fact War is one of my favourite movies of all time. I was extremely concerned with the big mouse bought Fox that they would disneyfy PotA but Kingdom had similar vibes to the last trilogy and had some really lovely moments, e.g. the observatory scenes and any scene with Raka. Soundtrack was also nice. I liked it.
I did say I wasn’t doing to elaborate, but I mean of Caesar as a Kim il sung figure. Like he wasn’t the ONLY reason the apes managed to free themselves (no great men and all), but he still was extremely instrumental. And all apes respected him, like a leader, and respected his family. They followed him and were loyal to him. They had faith in him. Because he sacrificed so much for all of them. And they kept his memory alive, a memory of freedom and struggle, of loyalty. He represented that for them. The struggle to be be free. Winning that struggle.
Like I had first watched the trilogy when I was younger, and when I rewatched it now the first thing that popped into my head after the movie was like: Caesar is a communist revolutionary, and these just showed how a “cult of personality” is naturally born from the struggle for freedom. Like wouldn’t you love and devote yourself to the person and their cause that freed you from torture, slavery, abuse? That freed all your friends and family??
Please don’t take me seriously, I’m silly and high.
I saw Caesar as Lenin and Koba as a lib take on Stalin but it’s all good.
I mean not specifically Kim, but like Fidel, Mao, Lenin etc.
But also that not understanding how people can love a leader in such a way shows so much privilege.