11/27/2023 0 Comments Planet of the apes symbolism![]() ![]() The sense that these three films constitute a trilogy is enhanced by what seems to be their deliberate shifts in perspective: the first film almost entirely foregrounds contemporary human society the second film alternates between the activities of beleaguered humans and the activities of Caesar’s apes and the third film almost entirely focuses on the apes. Thus, the fear expressed in my review of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – that filmmakers were preparing for an endless series of iterative Apes films – was unfounded, as that film’s failure to significantly advance its plot can instead be attributed to the familiar problem encountered by anyone writing the second work in a trilogy: the need to keep the characters in motion while postponing all significant developments for the final installment. True, much of the film simply carries on the apes-versus-humans saga unveiled in the second film, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014 – review here), but eventually all of the major story lines are concluded in a satisfying manner that precisely lays the groundwork for the transformed world observed in the original Planet of the Apes (1968). ![]() To my knowledge, there are no announced plans for a fourth film in the recent Planet of the Apes prequel series, and everything about Matt Reeves’s War for the Planet of the Apes thankfully suggests a desire to bring its series to an end as a trilogy.
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