Thursday, May 21, 2009

Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes was definitely Secular Humanist. The entire movie was addressing evolution. It was kind of scary to think about though. If you believed in evolution, then you could totally be worrying about your "species" being destroyed and apes taking over. Plus, the whole heresy thing was Secular Humanist too because they didn't want truth or evidence, they were believing what society had decided was truth: Man is not able to think or speak. Man is lower than monkeys. Even when they had an example of an evolved man, Taylor's partner, the head scientist "cut up his brain" so he could not be used to prove man's intelligence. Secular Humanists do not want truth. I think the most entertaining part was the cheesiness of the whole thing. Some of the graphics and a few of the lines were just ridiculous. The whole thing was kind of ruined for me though because we watched the end in CWS. I knew the entire time that they were on earth and humanity had collapsed to the point where apes took over. It's a crazy thought that one day our society could collapse, but that is what we are learning about in CWS, so I guess I've thought about it a lot lately. I am really glad that I am a Christian because life would be so scary if you believed it is possible for apes to take over, and man would become like animals with no value.

1 comment:

Caryn Kirk said...

You seem to have the message of the film backward. The monkeys in the film are religious, and they are the ones who don't want truth. They want their scriptures, even if there is evidence against them. The human character is the "secular humanist" of the film. Humanists are portrayed as seeking truth at all costs and also seeing the true self-destructive nature of mankind.