I personally think that evaluating a thing still needs to combine the characteristics of the times. For example, some people use homemade coils to make a simple alternator. This does not seem to be of great significance today, but the scientist who first discovered alternating current can forever shine through the annals of history (if the history of mankind continues) . This is the so-called product of the times.
Looking at Escape from the Apes and the just-released Rise of the Apes, some people think that animal testing directly led to Caesar's uprising, and the important factor in the demise of mankind is the spread of the virus, which is more reasonable. That’s right, but netizens seem to have forgotten the technological explosion in the 40 years from 1970 to 2010, as well as the original intention of the author of Planet of the Apes-racial and class discrimination.
Art comes from life and is higher than life. If you have to evaluate a movie with those reasonable and unreasonable objective factors, I think it is too tired, just like the "faith and science" mentioned in the first Planet of the Apes. Contradiction, in today's view, this proposition is meaningless. If we start from the author's own writing intention and re-examine the old films in this series, is it more in line with the spirit of the film? I can’t say that the protagonist’s journey through this gimmick is too nonsense, so I can deny that the film has reduced the film to one level, right? So how do you explain the statues on Easter Island? If modern people shoot a movie of Easter Island statues, wouldn’t they be the same as aliens?
In general, the Planet of the Apes series movies are good. It is a good starting point to conceive such a story to warn humans in that era. Today's theories cannot be used to rigidly set the plot of history. That would be too disrespectful to history. .
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