BASED ON PIERRE BOULLE’S 1963 NOVEL ‘LA PLANET DES SINGES’, PLANET OF THE APES WAS ADAPTED AND RELEASED IN 1968 IMMEDIATELY BECOMING A CLASSIC,
CREATING ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC ENDINGS IN CINEMATIC HISTORY.
A DISCUSSION OF SOCIAL ISSUES THROUGH THE LENS OF SCIENCE FICTION DEPICTING HUMANS AS THE SUB DOMINANT SPECIES, PLAYING ON THE IDEA OF SEGREGATION
AND THE STRUGGLE FOR EQUALITY.
IT UNDERLINES HOW POWER CORRUPTS AND CAN BE USED UNJUSTLY BY THOSE THAT HAVE IT AND CHOOSE TO DO SO.
MAN’S FOCUS AND RELIANCE IN TECHNOLOGY WHILST FUNDAMENTALLY FAILING AT ‘HUMAN’ - NATURE.
QUESTIONING THE STATE OF SOCIETY AND REFLECTING THE LOSS OF FUNDAMENTAL VALUES AND IDEALS.
IT IS THE MUTUAL IGNORANCE AND INTOLERANCE OF ONE ANOTHER THAT REPRESENTS THE REAL DANGER.
HUMAN SEE, HUMAN DO
