The original 1968 film Planet of the Apes is a film where in an alternate world there is a planet that is inhabited by apes such as gorillas, orangutans, and chimpanzees. The apes, in a reverse of roles, are the supreme beings and man is just an animal, something to be looked at and experimented on. Like what we do today with apes, putting them in cages and zoo’s. The film is centered around knowledge and controlling it, controlling who knows certain things. The people who are in control of this are the political and religious authorities. There are many aspects of this film that can be relatable to today’s society, most importantly the problems regarding race, racism, systems of inequality, evolution, and many more.
Evolution
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There is a term known as the integrative theory and states that “social hierarchy is inevitable and necessary for social integration and cohesion”. This means that there must be a division of labor among the people and that it is inevitable. Everyone cannot be doing the same job or have a more important job than someone else and get paid the same, that is just unfair. That is why in the movie you see the different levels of importance with the highest being the religious and law keeping orangutans, next being the chimpanzees who are the scientists and higher working class, and lastly the gorillas being the lower working class. There is also a big problem with social reproduction that is almost inevitable. Today kids who are born into a lower class cannot get out of it, and more often than not when they grow up they take after their parents and get the same type of job so they stay in that certain class that they were born in. In the movie, it seemed as if though only certain types of apes mated with their own kind so they could keep the blood pure so as not to mix it. It seems that the nephew of Zira is the same species as her and that it looks to be that he is a scientist or learning to become one as an apprentice
Evolution
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There is a term known as the integrative theory and states that “social hierarchy is inevitable and necessary for social integration and cohesion”. This means that there must be a division of labor among the people and that it is inevitable. Everyone cannot be doing the same job or have a more important job than someone else and get paid the same, that is just unfair. That is why in the movie you see the different levels of importance with the highest being the religious and law keeping orangutans, next being the chimpanzees who are the scientists and higher working class, and lastly the gorillas being the lower working class. There is also a big problem with social reproduction that is almost inevitable. Today kids who are born into a lower class cannot get out of it, and more often than not when they grow up they take after their parents and get the same type of job so they stay in that certain class that they were born in. In the movie, it seemed as if though only certain types of apes mated with their own kind so they could keep the blood pure so as not to mix it. It seems that the nephew of Zira is the same species as her and that it looks to be that he is a scientist or learning to become one as an apprentice