The reason why I looked for this film after it went offline was because of the recommendation of a few friends, especially under the important conditions that these friends still wet their eyes. This made me interested in the orangutan named Caesar.
The story is actually very old-fashioned, or even cliche, but this is Hollywood's habit or an old problem. For a commercial film, it’s quite normal to have such a story, because its target is the public, and for the public, the box office can be guaranteed to the point of the problem involved. If it is too deep, the public will not buy it. It is unacceptable to the producer.
For me, the climax of the whole film is not the orangutan's final struggle and return to nature, but Caesar erased the window he painted on the wall of the orangutan adoption house. The window was painted at first, and finally erased, marking an important change in Caesar's thinking. When the window was erased by Caesar, it was doomed to make the final choice of Caesar and his orangutans. Rush to the forest that represents wildness and nature, rather than returning to the destination that humans arrange for it, whether it is the virtual nature of the adoption home, the cold compartment of the laboratory, or the fully humanized and cozy attic in Will's house.
That window was erased, in fact, Caesar finally chose to listen to the call of his own wild heart, or the call of God. Who we are, where we come from, and where we go are the ultimate questions that all human philosophy must solve. In this film, the problem encountered by the orangutan Caesar is actually the deepest hidden behind the story and audiovisual. And Caesar’s choice was not to return to the human home that Will deliberately created for him, but the forest we had already anticipated. So, after experiencing all the stories, Caesar’s No and Caeser is home are the only two. A line will touch our heartstrings. Because what we are facing is actually the same problem faced by Caesar. Although we never think of it, we will never forget it in fact. And how is our life struggling with this problem? But our struggle may not be as dramatic as that encountered by Caesar.
Since the evolution of mankind, the two questions of who we are and where we come from are actually not so important anymore. The important question is where we are going. This is the ultimate question that mankind faces now. To be pessimistic, we don't actually know our direction. Each of us actually has a Caesar window in front of us, but what we see through the window is by no means the forest where Caesar finally returned. Compared with Caesar, we are actually a poor group, because we have no final ownership, even if human eyes have been cast into outer space. Compared with Caesar, those of us "the essence of the universe, the primates of all things" are just poor bugs who think they are in control of their own destiny. In this sense, this film is actually a highly realistic irony, not just Only science fiction movies.
There is an old saying that when God closes one door, he will always open another window for you. This sentence is often quoted by us, and it makes us feel that there will always be another village in the world. However, "Bible Revelation" Chapter 3, verse 8 says "Behold, I will give you one in front of you. There is an open door that no one can close." This really shows that there is always an open door "Where to go" in front of us, but we didn't find it at all, we just kept drawing a road for ourselves. The door is like the window Caesar painted on the wall of the adoption house. The difference is that Caesar erased the window and broke into the forest to find our home, but we still had no direction. In this sense, Caesar’s window is actually a kind of revelation, and this window that was painted at first and then erased, in my opinion, is the most profound "point-to-stop" of this film. As for the claims and interpretations of the conflicts between civilization and technology, and between humans and nature, it is very likely that they have gone wrong. Of course, people have different opinions, and various statements and interpretations can be seen more or less in the film, but I still stubbornly believe that the most important thing Caesar wants to tell us is actually that the painting on the wall was Wiped windows.
Caesar has a forest to go back, but what about us? We all have a "home", but we have never found the ultimate direction. And the "Battle of the Apes", which was completed several years before this film, has already told us the ending-one day, we will be destroyed in our own hands. Look at the planet we live on, and the human world in which we live. We have painted countless windows, but we never seem to really erase them. Even if we cast our eyes on outer space, we are still locked in a cage, and we still can't find a way out of the cage. Thinking of this, I couldn't help being trapped in deep pessimism again, sliding a lot in the direction of pessimists.
Caeser is Home. And I am home, I am not Home. Who is the real orangutan?
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