"YOU'RE TRYING TO CONTROL THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEANT TO BE CONTROLLED"
- from the movie "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"
I remember loving the original Planet of the Apes movie with Charleston Heston. One thing I forgot was how the first movie was so anti-Christian. This is not true of this latest remake which is a prequel to the first movie. One sees a quick picture of a spaceship flying into outerspace to catch the quick reference that this was supposed to represent Charleston Heston and his original crew. What one finds in this prequel is a clever story of how man created his own worst nightmare. Doing something good like finding a cure to altizmer leads scientists to invent a drug that causes a plague that wipes out most of mankind while it gives exceptional intelligence to apes. One also sees the apes also need a kind of savior and one who will lead them out of captivity into the freedom of the jungle once more.
Issues such as good and evil, freedom and slavery, evolution and creation, morality and mores are contrasted in the response of those in the movies as well as the viewers. I have heard several people tell me they are not going to see a movie about apes. But this kind of creative sci-fi genre has a larger story to tell for those who have the time to go see this movie for themselves.
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