Space travel opens a portal of doom
Friday, August 21, 2015
Fantastic 4 is marred in controversy that even overshadows the supervillian in the movie. Word reaching yours truly suggests that director Josh Trank got fired halfway through the production of this masterpiece, which caused major re-shoots, as he had envisioned his film to be two hours and 20 minutes long. Like most jam-packed films, studio 20th Century Fox opted fort the time to be reduced to 1 hour and 30 minutes.
Fantastic 4 centres on four young outsiders who discover and teleport to an alternate dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a friend turned enemy.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...