The reason why humans are being treated like animals in movie “Planet of the Apes”, is because their ancestors failed to deal effectively with apes’ rebellion onboard the space station “Oberon”, before it crushed on Earth. As the result of this event, humans were being consequentially turned into slaves, and made to pay the ultimate price for being weak, in evolutional sense of this word. Thus, we can say that “Planet of the Apes” promotes the idea that the concept of “peaceful coexistence” is metaphysically wrong in its essence.
It appears that there are certain parallels can be drawn between how we treat animals and how humans are being treated in the movie. However, it does not imply that the way we treat animals is “morally wrong”. What allowed homo sapiens to become undisputed masters of animal kingdom, is the sheer power of their intellect. In its turn, the intellectual progress of mankind corresponds to the laws of evolution, as we know them. According to these laws – everything that helps a particular species to survive and to grow to dominate others is “good” and everything that weakens this specie is “bad”. If we were to treat animals as equal, it would contradict the laws of nature, for which we would eventually be required to pay heavy price, as it is actually being shown in the movie.
There are two reasons as to why Leo Davidson finds himself in 21st century New York that is being populated by apes, at the end of the movie:
- Tim Burton originally intended to exploit movie’s ending as the plot basis for a sequel, which was to be produced later.
- Scene makes mockery of policy of “multiculturalism”, which is being forcibly imposed upon Americans, as biologically counterproductive, because the promoters of racial mixing strive to reverse the course of evolution backwards, with the ultimate goal of turning humans into apes.
Bibliography:
Planet of the Apes (2001 film). 2008. Wikipedia. Web.