The sci-fi action blockbuster Rise of the Planet of the Apes 1, with its magnificent and exciting fight scenes and delicate and moving emotional communication, is a film that can bring profound thoughts.

1. The first ten minutes need to introduce the main characters and the main conflict. In the opening scene a doctor is researching a new drug that can increase human intelligence, but for this reason many apes are sacrificed. Here the main conflict is highlighted: should human progress be based on the sacrifice of animals? The scene shifts to Caesar, an orangutan with an IQ that transcends his race, who from a young age has shown a superb ability to learn and is a thief smart.

Daily life (10min to 30min): Caesar still lives a very warm and happy life in the Doctor’s home, but sooner or later this warmth is broken. Caesar sees the outside world from his window and is beaten half to death by humans when he runs out to play, and he gradually realises that he is an uncompromising alien in the human community, an existence that he cannot fit into. When Caesar grew up, he was still bestially confronted in an incident that resulted in his being taken into the animal ward. In the detention centre Caesar is abused, which reinforces his feeling that if he is not human he will not have freedom, but will only be ruled and bullied by humans, and experience the horror of being human.

2. (40min to 80min) This scene is crucial to the transformation that takes place within Caesar’s mind.

Having grown up with humans, Caesar has some habits that prevent him from getting along with his own kind, and from becoming friends with them.

A: (55min) Caesar misses his life with the Doctor and even draws a window on the wall to represent his freedom. He realises that he can only be free if he is with his own kind.

Significant Plot Screen B: (60min) The Doctor comes to take Caesar home, but at this point Caesar looks at the collar around his neck (detail) and closes the door that symbolises his freedom; he no longer needs humans to give him freedom, but to try to gain his own freedom. It is at this plot point that Caesar makes his final choice and leaves the humans.

Caesar shouts “No!” in the face of bullying by the caretakers, and the orangutans fight back!

The orangutans, led by Caesar, break out of prison, attack the Institute to rescue their companions and head for the freedom of the forest.

3: (80min to the end) Climax (80min) Caesar and his companions are in danger, beaten back by humans with various weapons. As emotions build to a peak, the apes begin to fight back and defeat the humans to gain victory and freedom. A clean slate!

In the end (90min) Caesar meets the Doctor again and says “Caesar has arrived home”, deepening the theme and clarifying the contradiction that the freedom of animals no longer requires human intervention.

A good movie, every time you watch it you get something new and experience it!