Rise of the Planet of the Apes Film Analysis
Angelica Marie J. Sinay
9 – Providence
Film Analysis of the movie “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
The movie “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” is about a scientist that accidentally genetically engineers an ape through a virus to be extremely intelligent while finding for a cure for the Alzheimer’s disease his father had. The ape then grew physically and in intelligence as time passed by and became more and more sensitive to his surroundings and feelings. One day, when he saw the father of the scientist having a fight with their neighbour, he attacked the neighbour and was put in a prison for apes by the animal control. In the prison for apes, he witnessed the reality of the cruelty done to apes by humans causing him to make an army of intelligent apes he infected with the same virus that caused his intelligence and had an uprising to free the apes and himself in the redwoods forest. Based on the movie, the genetic breakthrough that happened were the drugs ALZ 112 and ALZ 113 that were labeled as the cure to the Alzheimer’s disease. These drugs contained a virus that lead organisms with strong immune systems to have heightened intelligence, full cognitive recovery, increased memory quality, and faster reparation of brain cells, although harmful to those with weak immune systems. In my own opinion, the evolutionary manipulation of man or any specie presented in the movie through the maneuvering of the brain cells and other parts of the brain of the ape the scientist performed seemed a bit unethical because this manipulation could lead to controlling the way of thinking and the actions of man or any other species. Genetics is related to the film because the story revolved around an ape that was infected with a man-made virus that focused on controlling the variations in an organism through altering the way the brain cells work, thus also altering the different qualities and actions of the organism infected. Through the movie and the discussion, I realized that
9 – Providence
Film Analysis of the movie “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
The movie “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” is about a scientist that accidentally genetically engineers an ape through a virus to be extremely intelligent while finding for a cure for the Alzheimer’s disease his father had. The ape then grew physically and in intelligence as time passed by and became more and more sensitive to his surroundings and feelings. One day, when he saw the father of the scientist having a fight with their neighbour, he attacked the neighbour and was put in a prison for apes by the animal control. In the prison for apes, he witnessed the reality of the cruelty done to apes by humans causing him to make an army of intelligent apes he infected with the same virus that caused his intelligence and had an uprising to free the apes and himself in the redwoods forest. Based on the movie, the genetic breakthrough that happened were the drugs ALZ 112 and ALZ 113 that were labeled as the cure to the Alzheimer’s disease. These drugs contained a virus that lead organisms with strong immune systems to have heightened intelligence, full cognitive recovery, increased memory quality, and faster reparation of brain cells, although harmful to those with weak immune systems. In my own opinion, the evolutionary manipulation of man or any specie presented in the movie through the maneuvering of the brain cells and other parts of the brain of the ape the scientist performed seemed a bit unethical because this manipulation could lead to controlling the way of thinking and the actions of man or any other species. Genetics is related to the film because the story revolved around an ape that was infected with a man-made virus that focused on controlling the variations in an organism through altering the way the brain cells work, thus also altering the different qualities and actions of the organism infected. Through the movie and the discussion, I realized that