Western Civilisation
Could this movie be seen in a context, where the uncivilized apes could be seen as Islamists and the remaining humans could be seen as defenders of the western civilisation?
Cold it even be seen as a prequel to humanity? Is it now detailing how a species was developed in the laboratory? Could this maybe be the story of the Ancient Aliens?
Or am I stretching it too far?
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sneaky324
They only abandoned the dam because there were so many deaths. I'm sure they would have kept it going if they could.
But I didn't see any "Islamic" message in this film!
IPause01
Uncivilized apes? Did you miss the part of the movie where they were living quite peacefully in their forest (after escaping captivity in labs and zoos) until the human decided they needed the hydroelectric power from the dam?
If there's a political metaphor here, it's one that doesn't work out well for the humans. In this metaphor, the apes are the indigenes (the Native Americans, the Arabs) and the humans are Western imperialism going after resources (the buffalo, the furs, the land, the gold, the silver, the oil) that are on land that's already occupied. Sure, the humans built the dam so in some sense it's theirs, but they also abandoned it.
I don't really think the film is so simplistic as to have a flat analogy with good guys and bad guys that map up to some current political struggle, but there's no way you can read the apes as being uncivilized (or more uncivilized than the humans) and stay true to what we saw on screen.
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All the robots in oil paintings, they keep trying to row away.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Released: July 08, 2014
Synopsis:
A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.