"Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes" Review (Cut Segment)

This is the cut allegory discussion from my review for <i>Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes</i>.
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The movie features two ape factions: one tribe of apes unaware of Caesar just vibing, doing their own thing, and various Caesar-obsessed groups who often misinterpret his teachings to various degrees. Similarly, there are two human factions: humans who exist purely as animalistic, "mindless sheep," and a rising group of rebels who want to restore the intellectually human-dominated past. Whether it's intentional or not, one can see this as somewhat meta, and it works really well. In listed order above, the factions represent people excited to explore a familiar landscape in a different way, people who project their own feelings on what <i>Planet of the Apes</i> should be (despite it being vastly different than French author Pierre Boulle's original novel), people who are either blissfully unaware or chose to be spoon-fed a marketed product to consume, and people who reminisce about the good old days, wanting to make <i>Planet of the Apes</i> great again. Still, this is admittedly a slightly unhinged, fully interpretational theory.

One allegory that isn't as interpretational is the biblical allegory of <i>Noah and the Flood</i> that, embarrassingly, didn't dawn on me until I read @Questionthis1's comment on FilmSpeak's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWpAQt9bIPk" rel="nofollow">video</a> where they mention, "That story is about people who have misconstrued the "word of god" being washed away be [sic] the flood, Noah building an ark (or in this case a metaphorical one) to protect the future of his species, and he and his family train birds who find land where he can bring his people to in order to set up a new home and rebuild." Normally, I'd say it is somewhat low-hanging fruit to name your main character a variation of Noah and just combine the story in Genesis with Joseph Campbell's hero's journey monomyth, but I found it to be laid out pretty well in this instance.

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