http://christianlind.com/cinemaoutcasts Movie reviews with an outcasted edge Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:43:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://christianlind.com/cinemaoutcasts/2009/10/planet-of-the-apes/ http://christianlind.com/cinemaoutcasts/2009/10/planet-of-the-apes/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:34:27 +0000 lefrenchie http://christianlind.com/cinemaoutcasts/?p=27 Movies that stand the test of times are a rarity, it’s even truer with science‐fiction movie, but the Charlton Heston timeless masterpiece is a different breed of a movie; despite spawning a slur of sequels, and spin off tv shows; the original Planet of the Apes, got stuck in popular culture thanks to a brilliant final plot twist photographed with brilliance, with imagery that is printed in the collective consciousness.
Under the simple premise of an astronaut crash landing on a planet where man is the animal and the ape is the dominant specie, lays a philosophical fable about human society, from the futility of war to racism, with a hint about the debate over evolution. The movie is filled with themes and ideas, that forty years later still resonate, and are still as valid now as they were then.

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