Saturday, December 6, 2014

I would like to discuss the movie Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. If you guys have seen the prequel, you know that Caesar is the main character who the story is centered around. With a synthetic drug tested on apes to see if it can cure Alzheimer's goes wrong and wipes out the majority of the human race, Caesar is the leader of his ape community. However one day the apes hear a gun shot. When they gather to see where the shot has come from they encounter humans. These humans tell Caesar that they are the last of what is left of the human race and they want to use the apes environment in order to use a damn to create electricity. This causes a conflict among the ape community. Many of the apes have a negative outlook on humans because they have been on the receiving end of some harsh scientific testing. Koba, one of the apes who is strongly against humans, disregards Caesar's thoughts on co-existing with the humans. Koba goes to the human headquarters and sees the armory and the amount of weapons in it. Instead of telling Caesar, he takes one of the guns, stealthly shoots Caesar, and blames the humans for it so they have a reason to go to war with the humans. It is interesting because at first apes saw humans as savages who killed their own kind. Now with the apes increased intellect , they are beginning to become power hungry and killing each other. It is interesting to see the connection made with intellect and power, and how far any living thing is willing to go in order to seize it.

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