I watched this movie a week ago and I really enjoyed it. Not only because of smart apes going into an unstoppable rampage and massive gorillas owning the police force(which was fun to watch) but because of its significance. I just read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and it has a strong resemblance to the movie's theme. The thing that stood out to me the most was the desire to discover a cure to the human diseases, but then turning into a complete disaster. Also the desire to control nature which in the movie was Caesar, but then turning against his own creator and becoming more powerful through what he learned. In Frankenstein, the parallelism is the same. The doctor wants to create a creature that later on becomes his own enemy and kills everyone he loved. In Planet of the Apes, the doctor wants to find the cure but then his masterpiece becomes what he was meant to be; a free living creature that knows almost no boundaries becoming a powerful being that has a great intellect and great physical strength.
So the final conclusion is that man cannot control what he isn't meant to control. Everything beyond man's understanding is supposed to stay unchanged.
Haven't read Frankenstein, but this was a cool post, and I won't go finding a cure for anything anytime soon, so no worries world.
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