This movie was great because it kept my interest the entire time! I'm not sure if it was the funky monkey outfits or my desire for human intelligence to live on.
It was definately secular humanist because the apes's God was proven wrong by Taylor. He proved that humans came before men even though their Bible talks of apes first. The movie was an inverted world. Today, Christians have solid historical evidence for beliefs. Evolutionists have gaps in their theory. In the movie, the "Christians/ Apes" did not have evidence for what they thought to be true. The evolutionary aspect had more support.
Today, evolutionists say we evolved from the ape. But in the twisted world in the movie, the apes think that they are the highest evolved species and the humans are mere beasts.
Survival value was seen in both the herd of wild humans and the ape society. The humans all fended together for corn and migrated together. For the apes, the doctor destroyed the cave of evolutionary evidence for the good of his own species. The ape wanted the apes to remain number 1.
Lastly, truth is scientific--seen in the ape judge's request of "evidence" or "heresy otherwise".
But the ending!! Cmon. That makes me mad that it just ENDS abruptly. I was left feeling like humanity is doomed forever. I wanted those darn apes defeated and humanity's intelligence to be revealed to all. Then I wanted Nova to learn English so that she can actually understand Taylor's love for her. Uggh.
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