Perhaps the most successful aspect of this new series of films is that the inner world of the apes is portrayed as the inner world of the characters, which makes the audience suddenly realize that an imaginary sci-fi action movie is actually a drama with so many inner struggles. The emotional feature film. It turns out that it is by no means a simple battle between humans and apes, and then Charge One. It is more like two big families or even two countries in order to inherit their races and continue their races, in peaceful coexistence and grabbing resources. All-round struggle in the military and other areas.
This is completely different from the 1968 story frame. In that version, the status of humans and apes are basically reversed. You even feel the stupidity and hypocrisy of humans from the apes; the 2001 version focuses too much on commercial elements and breaks away The ideological core of the opposing apes in the story is simply terrible in terms of emotional impact and life thinking. And there is no so-called evil side in this series of movies, because these two races have fully demonstrated their views and positions based on their own life experiences in the film. They are equal organisms. This series is not a reflection of our human beings being replaced by other species, but a reminder that the mutual enmity and struggle brought about by the mistrust between humans will eventually destroy our planet, such a long-standing crisis.
For a nation with unclear beliefs, it is empty to talk about political struggle, because no matter which doctrine or system, you don’t understand at all. With an attitude of not trying to see how to know, you bite the bullet and make reforms and revolutions. The result is indeed. It may be better, but don’t forget that it may be worse. If you are not 100% sure, not only will you not be a hero, you will be a sinner of history. Without a trustworthy belief, I can only believe in myself and establish my own principled position. So in the era of peace, we don't need so many bloody fighters, but calm thinkers. When you don't have an exact constructive goal and method, don't take the liberty to be a pioneer. First cultivate your body and make yourself harmonious and stable, and then you can govern the country and the world, otherwise what you are doing now is just a kind of destruction.
Let's take a look at how to be a "man" from the perspective of the two "apes" Caesar and Coba.
Caesar's growth history in the first book will not be repeated. Caesar, who has received the most modern human model education, has an IQ that surpasses that of humans of his age. What he cares about is the development and continuation of the civilization of the race. Caesar, who grew up in a human family, inherited some of the social attributes of human beings, and even built grass and wood houses, formed a monogamous family, and built a school to learn human languages. He is well aware of the advantages of human social structure, the collective wisdom and exploratory spirit of mankind, and the sins in human nature, and he is fully aware of the crimes of human beings greed for profit and harm each other. As a leader, he hopes to inherit some excellent qualities and civilized achievements from human beings, and at the same time try his best to avoid the poisonous consequences of hatred and desire for power. Therefore, he also formulated some principles for the orangutans as their regulations, such as "Never take the initiative to harm humans", "Orangutans do not kill orangutans", etc., in order to distinguish the grievances between orangutans and humans, and let the orangutans follow their own The law, don’t repeat the conflicts in the human world. We can see Caesar's good intentions as a leader. He has always planned and worried for the collective interests and future development of the orangutans. Morris warned him that the orangutans are not that smart, and he fully understands it, so he Carrying a heavier burden alone. When a leader walks on such a pioneering path, isn’t the pressure on him also the same? But at least, he trusts the orangutans to create the future.
In addition to being an ape, Caesar's inner world and cognitive model are entirely human, so he not only makes good use of the thinking that humans teach him, but also approximates the emotional model of humans. When he met a good person like Malcolm again, he knew how to accept and be grateful; when his wife and children and himself encountered life and death difficulties, he was willing to accept medical assistance and cooperate with human beings. All this is because he believes in sincere communication. Language is really the greatest invention of mankind. With language, we can express each other. We can express our needs and gratitude freely without guessing the intentions of others. Even if language cannot express emotions 100%, it does get closer. The distance between people is reduced. In the movie, at every critical moment, Caesar will directly use human language to communicate with the apes and humans. There are barriers to communication, so it needs to be so direct, as is the case between people. Active expression and good expression can often eliminate many unnecessary worries and misunderstandings. But can you trust it if you express it? The content of expression is ultimately limited, and the emotions expressed may not be fully accepted, so 100% trust is so difficult, so there will be Coba's rebellion, this is something later.
In addition, the tear point of the whole drama should be Caesar's return home, holding a DV machine to look back at the video with James Franco as a child, and the "cross window" symbol that symbolizes Caesar's free consciousness awakening. Every life longs for the warmth of the family and also has a yearning for freedom. Family represents stability and safety, and freedom represents endurance and adventure. A journey that is absolutely safe is not considered a trip of freedom, because many restrictions have been added to prevent freedom from occurring; breaking away from an unstable network is not a risk, and it is more terrifying than the fear and fear created by this instability. The result? Although Caesar tried his best to control the apes and even put an end to direct contact with humans, humans would not disappear without a trace as you expected. Humans are the most self-proclaimed free creatures, and the territory of the orangutans is also the freedom of humans. The land, as long as humans can go there, humans will do everything possible to go there, no matter any corner of the universe. Therefore, as long as humans and apes cannot truly understand and communicate, this great ape war is inevitable, and each race will squeeze the living space of other races in order to gain more space for their activities.
Narrow down to everyone, everyone wants to occupy more resources and time to compress other people's resources and time, in order to gain more security than others. The more typical ones are investment and house grabbing. We are afraid that our property will depreciate and that we will have no living space in the future, so we take some temporarily unused things as our own. In fact, we are insecure and worry that other people will seize resources. And to eliminate you, psychologically, is that you do not trust others, have malicious speculations on others, so that you can prioritize resources without being controlled and oppressed by others. You can't fully trust others because subconsciously, you know that you are not the master of everything, so you can't fully control others. It is better to control the physical property that is visible and tangible. Therefore, the transaction of interests is easier to manipulate than human emotions. We are more willing to trust written contracts rather than verbal promises, and we are more willing to let ourselves have more control.
Caesar trusts in the goodwill of human beings and the unity of the apes because he has been well taken care of in the human family. The opposite is the Coba who has been tortured and tortured by human scientists in the human laboratory.
From an external perspective, Coba's hatred of human scientists is inevitable. Scientists and businessmen have represented the best collection of human wisdom. However, such a group of the most intelligent human beings in the world have the most ruthless inner world. This group of human beings has no compassion for other creatures and deprives them of their freedom. Human experiments. We can talk about human rights to people, but why can't we talk about biological rights to other creatures? Are these animals willing to accept your experimental research? If this group of animals have better IQ and bodies than humans, and even higher than the human species, would humans treat them like this? As long as he is not human, humans will still do this. This is a kind of group consciousness. Small groups will safeguard the interests of small groups. Large nations and nations will also have group cohesion. As long as you treat each other as "outsiders", you will not care about his life and death, because you are more Care about the life and death of partners in the same group. Therefore, it is terrible for a person to be too independent, and it is also very dangerous for a small group to be too selfish and not accept other forms of organization. In their collective consciousness, other non-group people or things are irrelevant to them. , And even affect their development, so the whole world will become their potential enemy.
Going back to Coba, in the first half of the movie, we know the torture that Coba has suffered, as well as the obstruction of Caesar when he wants to get revenge. We will feel sorry for his experience and pity this character. However, it seems that the persecution of human beings has created the current Koba, but in fact, part of the reason comes from himself. And this part of the internal cause was precisely because he mutated and accepted and possessed human greed and coldness.
Why do you say that? If Coba really considers the whole apes like Caesar, he is bound to put aside his personal hatred and take the protection of the apes as the primary principle, rather than the elimination of human beings as the primary goal. Although he hated human beings' cruelty and killing each other, he himself accepted this set of so-called dirty revenge. He believed that human beings were not worth trusting because he never believed that there would be a beautiful and harmonious future. The world, in his opinion, there can be no peace with the existence of human beings.
Here, the role similar to Coba is the human leader played by Gary Oldman. Relatives and friends of this character died of virus 113, so this seemingly soldier-born character has no friendly attitude towards apes. He believes that apes will replace humans to rule the earth. Humans will be killed by viruses or directly by apes. , But never imagined that there would be a day of cooperation between the apes. Whether this military setting also implies the threat posed by global military competition is unknown, but at least it can be seen that the hostility between people will eventually lead people to destruction. When Gary detonated the bomb at the end of the film at all costs, all I saw was a god of destruction who was dazzled by battle and revenge, and brought destruction to creatures all over the world.
Coba's consciousness inherited not only a radical leftist, but also the ever-expanding desire for power. In terms of IQ and strength, Coba does not lose to Caesar at all. It is only because Caesar has liberated the whole apes from human control that he takes the top spot. Even Caesar has said that the weak apes need a tough leader. In terms of being tough, Coba is naturally above Caesar. And the mutant orangutans are a minority after all. Most orangutans simply cannot understand why Caesar is so "flattering" to humans, and Coba and human beings are not the same. In this regard, Coba is more in line with the requirements of the orangutans. So when Coba couldn't eliminate his own hatred and sense of crisis, he began to plan a coup, using his power to put all the orangutans in terror, to feel the terrifying to insecure world in his heart. So we saw a Coba who was better at acting than politicians, and Coba who was more murderous than a soldier. In order to seize power, he did not hesitate to direct several outstanding cases, and in order to consolidate his rights, he did not hesitate to kill the apes and respect the orangutans. These human ugliness that Coba hates most finally happened to him. This is yet another tragedy cultivated by human catalysis and experimentation.
In the end, it is not to say that the great Caesar is a perfect symbol of justice. In order to reunite the apes, he defeated Coba with the help of kind humans, and at the moment Coba tried to survive, he learned that humans broke their own rules. Principle-"You are not an ape". It's just self-deception, and forced to twist the objective facts of others in order to protect your own principles. Have you remembered the case that "has sex is not rape"? In the end, it was just a game of power, but Caesar had to win. When everything has happened, this series of distrust has made it even more untrustworthy. When the sense of trust between the apes is repeatedly frustrated, Caesar can only helplessly accept the declaration of war issued by humans in order to protect the apes. A final battle will be next. Happened in one part
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last bit of personal emotion:
The history of civilization development is actually a history of war. We always have a beautiful illusion to build a trustworthy civilization and system. However, these civilizations and systems are becoming less and less trustworthy in the fear of the death instinct of human beings. , So we will look for new idealism. As an individual, people themselves cannot understand this opposition between life and death, and live with others in this world with endless fear, and this mutual influence will be passed on. In the end, any war is actually not just. It just uses a kind of helpless destruction to end another kind of greater destruction, and uses a smaller evil to cover up the larger evil. Only by making humans have a clearer understanding of themselves and making themselves more confident and unshakable can they eliminate the uneasiness caused by the unknown from themselves.
The movie is just describing a speculative story. It can only transform these thoughts into visible phenomena for observation. It also cannot find a final answer to solve this problem. If there is an answer, the political struggle in the world would have been long since. It's not so lively anymore. So before the end, I would like to remind everyone that passion does not mean blindness. You need to watch a few more steps to play chess. Besides, do you claim to be a master chess player? It’s not that I don’t have a sense of life or death, but I just feel that I have little accomplishments, so I start with myself, learn tolerance and kindness, improve my sense of security, and become an independent person before I am not afraid of others, and I am qualified and worthy. Trusted by others.
It is difficult and unnecessary to trust others completely, but it is necessary to trust oneself completely, and it is even more important to trust oneself to change and continue to develop. Kohut said that we must be "resolute without hostility" when dealing with others, that is, we must adhere to our own personality beliefs and insist on doing our best. You do not need to project others with your own hostility, and you will not be disturbed by others. In an unclear relationship. A person’s personal position and principles can be continuously changed and diversified as his personality develops. Just like the young π, accepting multiple religious ideas is not about distrusting every idea, but believing that they are all. Have a side worth learning, and believe that you can accept these beautiful things, and ultimately believe that you can become the person in charge of your own destiny.
When you are in full control of your life and mood, the interference brought by others will no longer be dangerous, but a ray of freedom full of infinite reverie. You will only believe that the things and people you have experienced will make your life. More abundance, not sudden demise. When your beliefs are enough to support your personality, you will not be hostile and fearful to the outside world because of lack of security, and you will be able to communicate with the outside world more freely and move forward and retreat freely. If you are much more peaceful, then the feeling you bring to others is naturally safe, and your personality is stable enough that it will not bring others a sense of crisis, then you will not be hostile by others.
Trust is actually created between two completely free and independent individuals.
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