In the eye of a naked ape...

Rating: Null/10 (8 November 2011)

This might sound a little unreasonable, but I think it is time we give the other apes a chance to take over this planet. Oh and if we don't, well, not to worry. With our recurring blunders they might be able to seize enough initiative to grab it and rise to the occasion as well.
Rise of the Planet of Apes was all that and more. Maybe the sudden surge in the apes intelligence in the movie was quite a biotechnological fantasy (a remote possibility or is it?), Homo sapiens demises isn't. In fact, the imminence of such doom is quite a reality. Don't get me wrong, I also believe human intelligence is overly rated in the first place. The truth is, I still wonder if we ever understood any of the dooms day proclaims that is being screamed across by the media or is the end of the human race another form of entertainment to humans.
In what seems to be a shift in perspective (or was it always there?), 'aliens' and 'crazy-lab-animals' are no longer the bad guys. In fact, they are the once we are made to feel more empathetic towards. And whose ass do they repeatedly kick- the humans. Be it James Cameron's Na'vi Humanoids saving their planet Pandora or the genetically altered apes taking over the earth, humans don't seem to deserve any remorse.
But if I (like many others who enjoyed the movie) hooted for and with the apes, it shows that some neural segment in my brain says, "Maybe, just maybe, if we can care about our family (after all, aren't we all Primates?), we all can live and let live as well." Hope is a fine belief to hold onto. Isn't it?!
P.S. The writier's opines are all his own and may not cater to the general public. He also is terribly biased as he is an aspiring primatologist. He studies monkey (not apes).