Thursday, January 8, 2009
The Planet Of The Apes
When first watching the movie The Planet Of The Apes, I initially had some disdain for it. I thought that it was a slightly ridiculous humane statement to try and make people sympathize for the animals that humans mistreat by showing animals abusing humans. As the plot developed, I realized that it made some interesting points about the tension between science and religion. Apparently the humans had gone extinct (except for Taylor and his crew), and a race of primates claims to have evolved from humans and subjugates them. The elites in the primate society had created a system that essentially used religion and science in synergy in order to keep the primates disliking humans. Eventually, conflictions between the faith and scientific discoveries in the forbidden zone came up. There's an interesting balance with those elements in this movie and I thought it was a creative approach in the movie.
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I agree mike. At first, Planet of the apes seems like a poorly fabricated movie, and that the concepts are poorly chosen. But in fact, after a closer look, the movie is much more advanced and seems to be well thought out. Good post.
ReplyDeleteI really like how you looked at the movie in depth, instead of just taking the ideas from the surface. It seems as if you really understand the movie.
ReplyDeletei agree with you i thought that the movie was going to be really bad and then towards the middle it became really engaging and good. you made some good points good job Mike. :)
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