Planet of the Apes

Theme: Inequality

Planet of the Ape's is a futuristic movie with a bit of a twist on it. Usually, when people make movies about the future there are aliens, nuclear warfare, or zombies but in Planet of the Ape's it's none of that. The back round of the story is that humans needed a subject to test an Alzheimer's drug on and selected apes. One monkey was chosen but was later killed but she left behind a baby, who became increasingly smarter. Since he was smart he saw how people treated monkeys and became increasing outraged until he did something about it. Flash forward a few decades and apes rule the world. They treat humans the way they were treated. Human's are prisoners on their own planet, and there's nothing they can do about it because the apes are smarter than them and are much stronger than they are. These humans are shot if they're caught out side of their cages and they're essentially slaves to the monkey race. They're treated unfairly, have no rights and are brutalized similar to the way humans used to treat them.These movie warns us about our superiority complex and our growing egos. It's telling us that there's nothing wrong with treating some other species with respect because at any moment evolution could flip the tables on us and we could be in a situation where we're powerless and abused and treated unequally.