Babineaux Planet of the Apes

http://www.metacritic.com/movie/planet-of-the-apes

 

 

 

Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes is compacted with dualities. One of the most vital contrasts is the duality of education vs. illiteracy. The humans of this film are obviously the characters who are educated. This movie implies that the only reason why humans have superiority over apes are because of the power to think and reason. The humans have this thing called technology that allows them to have more power than other beings. They actually use monkeys to do the degrading or dangerous things that they do not want to do. The main character, Davidson, does not really care for the monkeys, especially not as much as the woman who takes care of the animals on the aircraft. That woman was much like Ari compassionately and sympathetically wise. This brings in a duality within another duality, one concerning gender and species. The women in this film were both obviously very intelligent. Maybe this had something to do with the aspect of their sympathy for the other species along with the fact that women are naturally more empathetic to living beings because of their motherly instincts. The scene where the animal woman tells Davidson not to tease the monkeys perfectly portrays how concerned she is of the monkey’s well-being. The scene where Ari protects Davidson is also a great depiction of her motherly instinct seeping through. Ari and Davidson use their intelligence and technology together in order to escape from the city. The apes in this film are not really smart. They surround their ways of life around using their strength. They are smart, but they know they have no way of achieving the technology of the humans. Thade definitely knew this which is why he wanted to kill Davidson before his use of technology overpowered his strength. This movie made many points about the society we live in today. Most of them were not good, but unfortunately they were indeed true. Tim Burton used his gift to critique Americans and let them know how seriously the problems of society were. This film opened people’s eyes to things they had never really seen before.