Rating of
3/4
Take your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape!
Gabe - wrote on 06/07/14
So many things to write about. some of the themes reminded me of things that we're going through right now. Religion was a huge topic. Did "their" God put the monkey on the planet or did they evolve from humans? Eventually that question is answered (the humans were there first). Other issues in American History were alluded to, such as the Standing Bear trials (habeus corpis), which in the 1800s asked the question, "is and indian a man?" In the film, the question that is asked is: "is a human a monkey?" I also saw similarities to the white man coming to America and taking everything away from the Indians. And of course the big issue ends up being the Cold War and nuclear annihilation. A huge nuclear war wiped out the human race and eventually the apes took over.
A good film that, yes, is slow in parts, but picks up as Charlton Heston starts to take over. And maybe we could learn a few lessons from it.
