"Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2": Reforming the Revolutionary Politics // Change and the Cultural War

Emelie 2021-10-18 09:30:17

1. Perhaps, we can watch this movie from another angle. This essentially popcorn movie still provides some space for thinking, such as how reformism and revolution are formed, and can revolution be avoided? For example, can ideological opposition be reconciled? Can hostility among different civilizations be really eliminated? The humans in the movie are a group of social races with a history of civilization, while the orangutans are proletarians who have been oppressed by humans for a long time. They are deprived, exploited, ignored, and despised. In the end, because of human errors, the orangutans took advantage of this opportunity and turned themselves into a group that was able to sit on an equal footing with humans to a certain extent and had the qualifications to negotiate. They have established a base area in a remote place, thrive and thrive, and will not infringe upon each other for a period of time.
2. But after all, this enclave of proletarians is a huge danger to human power. If it is not eradicated for one day, mankind will worry about it. During this period of time, human beings were too busy to take care of themselves, and they have always allowed this group to grow and develop. However, after all, human beings still need modern civilization, electricity is their necessity, and the proletarians can adapt to slash and burn. In this way, humans need to go to the orangutan base to repair the dam and power plant. The two ideologies and civilizations are destined to collide.
3. Orangutans have no scruples. Most orangutans have low moral values, developed limbs and simple minds. They are barefoot and are not afraid of wearing shoes. Only by breaking an old world can they build a new world. Therefore, they are not worried about confrontation. To a certain extent, he welcomes and expects the revolution. And human beings still have a certain obligation and residual attachment to the destroyed civilized world. In the face of autonomous orangutans, they appear to be too soft and pretentious and too laissez-faire. What they want is actually improvement. Under the premise of not touching the interests of the orangutan base area, part of the restoration of their own civilized world.
4. Once the confrontation between ideology and civilization occurs, various factions will emerge between the two sides of the binary opposition. Factions are formed either because of different beliefs or because of competition for interests. Caesar, the original leader of the orangutans, is actually a moderate with a peaceful world outlook. Although it leads the orangutan group, it has a certain degree of trust in human civilization. This is related to its origin. After all, it has lived in the human world when it was young. The personal experience, experience, and experience of living in a higher civilization will change the mind of an apes. Of course, when it returns to the base area, as the leader of a group of orangutans, it must act with authoritarian characteristics to avoid being prematurely washed away. After all, this group is comparing cruelty. Whoever adapts to the law of the jungle is the king. , Caesar must obey. The opposition Koba in the orangutan group is a cruel revolutionary. It believes that power comes from the barrel of a gun, hates all gentle petty-bourgeois sentiments, and believes that the world is divided into humans and apes, black and white, and being gentle with the enemy is a crime against its own people. Therefore, it must use force to destroy human civilization-the part that is opposed to its own ideology.
5. But after all, Caesar was the one who first led the uprising, and had the unshakable position of spiritual leader. Therefore, even though Coba is always instigating internal unity, many orangutans are still happy to unite closely around Caesar. Coba began to think. The distrust and hostility between the human world and the orangutan world has a long history, but it has not fully erupted. Coba decided to take advantage of this nationalist sentiment within the orangutan group to completely warm up the Cold War. It launched a political change, shot at the leader Caesar, and blamed humans. The orangutan group belongs to the typical "rabbit crowd", blinded in a kind of crazy group mood, this fuse completely ignited the whole group. The orangutans annihilated their individuality, turned into a violent group, and launched a full-scale war on the human world.
6. The human world is not worried, and the interior itself is messy and precarious. Both materials and spirit are in a critical state. The leader is also a weak intellectual. When facing a powerful enemy, he always adopts a gentle policy and basically has no sense of existence. The scientists sent to repair the dam have gradually established a connection with the orangutan world in the troubled times with courage and an open mind to overcome ideological opposition. He belongs to the icebreaker. Under the circumstances of the Cold War, he was ordered to establish cross-ideological diplomatic relations. To a certain extent, scientists are a bit pragmatic and not so pan-political. They provided assistance to the orangutan area—providing medicine to the dying wife of the orangutan leader Caesar, which saved her life—this kind of assistance is considered to be an upper-level route; at the same time, they also put forward interest requests and stayed in each other’s territory for a few days for repairs. Repair the power generation system. This has achieved cooperation. Even Caesar asked the orangutans at the bottom to help scientists do some physical work. This kind of foreign aid is absolutely effective.
7. The two sides were going to reconcile. If it goes well, perhaps the orangutan world, led by an orangutan leader with improved thoughts, will abandon war thinking, reach a certain agreement with human civilization, and become a part of the whole world, for example, under the premise of maintaining its own unique ideology and governance style. Partial integration, entering into human civilization, and completing certain commercial exchanges with human beings. But the revolutionary Coba seized the rights of the reformist Caesar. All this was in vain. The most interesting is the son of Caesar, the son of this former leader has a revolutionary heart. The resistance to patriarchy, coupled with the belief that the father’s weakness, has long been rebellious. Coba took advantage of this, taking the emperor to make the princes. The son of the former leader became his assistant.
8. The first thing Coba did after seizing power was to clean. He imprisoned all the closest important officials to Caesar, and then cruelly fell to death in front of all the orangutans, who challenged his authority and missed the old leader. It silenced all dissenters with violence and intimidation. At this time, the son of the former leader who originally followed it also began to waver. It feels that the world established by his father and the values ​​passed by his father seem to be inconsistent with the cruel scene in front of him, but to some extent he is one of the orangutans who participated in opening the devil's box with his own hands, and there is nothing he can do to change the status quo.
9. The authority of the animal kingdom is a very interesting thing. As long as the authority dies, its influence will dissipate immediately, and the former followers may be eradicated by the new leader at any time. As long as it does not die, its influence will still exist even if it is in a state of dying. Its power must be jealous. As long as it lives, it is a symbol of authority. Therefore, in order to prevent their forces from being easily strangled and wiped out, these leaders always show up in various ways. Caesar did just that. It was rescued, and after regaining its strength, it began to ask Koba for power. After a series of fights, Caesar made up his mind to get rid of Coba. Before his death, as an attempt to beg to let him go, Coba said to Caesar, "Apes don't kill orangutans." This was originally a motto when Caesar was in power. This shows that they divide the enemy from us by ideology. Those who belong to the same ideology are the same kind and friends. This is their logic. And Caesar said to him, "You are not worthy of being an orangutan." This sentence tells us that although Caesar is a reformist, he still has not jumped out of the ideological framework. It must first expel the person to be removed from the orangutan status. , It has the legitimacy to kill it. This is how it convinces itself, and it also shows it to other orangutans.
10. While the reformists and revolutionaries in the orangutan world were fighting internally, the human world could have used the intellectual and cultural advantages to wipe out the orangutans in one fell swoop. But the scientist who built the dam decided to give Caesar a chance. In the end, although the revolutionaries in the orangutan world were eradicated, the civilized war between the two humans and the orangutan was destined to deepen. Caesar, who could have led the orangutans to become gentler, was also destined to become a cruel warrior leader. The human army that came to the rescue would not listen to explanations, and Caesar had no choice but to protect the orangutan race from being strangled. They can only fall into war, which is protracted and protracted. Who is it that missed the opportunity for reconciliation? Who on earth has shaped revolution after revolution again and again?

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  • Ulises 2021-10-20 19:00:52

    The script is really attentive! Full of metaphors for the absurd political argument of "non-self races must have different hearts" (ironically, both humans and orangutans eat this one): If the opposition between humans and apes in the film is simply replaced by "Christianity and Islam" There is no sense of contradiction between the analogies of "teaching" and "Han and foreign nationality". The antagonism between the nation-state and religion is truly incurable. The name of the orangutan is Nietzsche or Kaiser#Humans never forgive, the law of the jungle is everywhere#

  • Ole 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    The persimmon face Maurice is so simple and cute!

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes quotes

  • Dreyfus: [to Malcolm as they see the apes] That's a hell of lot more than eighty!

  • Carver: [Aiming his shotgun at Blue Eyes] I don't take orders from monkeys!

    [Caesar tackles him down and takes his gun]