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APE-Ocalypse Now: Matt Reeves "Planet of Monkeys 3: Survival" is a western over the limits of the human
"You are such a pessimist!" – "Or a prophet .."
(the end: "The battle around the planet of the monkeys", 1973)
People against people – in the first few minutes, as a platoon American soldiers heavily reinforced and so well camouflaged as possible by a crumbled forest, you suspect in a Vietnam movie. Feels the tension of the manner, which penetrates into the unsuitable landscape, where danger threatens for everywhere. But quickly it is clear that it actually is an Indian western. The opponents of the Americans are not other people, but a foreign nature form that should be eradicated because one believes their principle considered.
Immediately after the first violent summary of the species, the film changes the pages and stop consistently to the monkeys. Because these people ("We Are Not Savages, Apes Fight Only to Survive") Only want to live in peace, they are always pulling themselves in the sacrificial defense struggle for new battles, and deeper into the Walder, always up to the north, again and again curly curled by betrayers who like the Indianscousts of the Western with the Army common cause make, and always erased and powered by your high-intelligent charismatic caesar.
Primacy of optimism
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"Apes. Together. Strong."
It’s already when you take them seriously, a challenging mindset to put into a horde animals, to put them human growth and to recognize the inhuman in humans. It is facilitated by the meanwhile nearly perfect CGI technique, which is forgotten that the monkeys of this movie are performers whose performance was in front of GreensCreen.
This thinking has always been the charm of the "planet of monkeys"-Films – Darwins Evolution Theory meets a thumbnail from boses Man and good animal and the obvious kitsch of human beings of monkeys.
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But when in the sixties, when the first films came out of the series, open analogies to the black burger rights movement and the racism of the US society were wanted and the series in the ratio to other Hollywood products "Left" and "libertar" Resorted, these are rather undergone in the reboot since 2011. You could "Others" The monkey Auber on underprered colored very easily also adapt to the status of Muslims in the eyes of Western democracies. In fact, it is rather historical parallels – just to Indians or work slaves in the stores of totalitarian dictatorships.
Because the actual core of the plot of the third part, "Planet of Monkeys 3: Survival" (In the original far apart "Was") In which Matt Reeves directed directed and who is easily understood without knowledge of the first two films, Caesar’s desire to throw the death of his wife and his son: after he sent his monkey tribe in supposedly safe terrain, he pursues with Three companions the track of the mordes.
"The last of the Mohiker" how "Apocalypse Now" let pits: The Caesar played by Andy Serkis in Grandios-Perfekter CGI mask as a wiser, selfless popular caesar acts as a kind of monkey-sitting bull. The counterparty in this game, as well as a general custer like a Major Kurtz, is the nameless Colonel, which is trashed by Woody Harrelson, which persecutes his own Messianic-Morbide mission, which becomes clear only with time. Both enemies connects their death drive.