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Planet of the Apes Movie: Aren’t Apes Better Than Humans?

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes movie:  When the Apes behaved more like humans and the humans, are better behaved  as  fearsome apes. The movie has turned  the tables on the apes by endowing them with human nature’s  compassion, greed for power, and follow the leader syndrome of the scared.

 I haven’t commented in writing  on any movie before. This is my first. So I  intentionally did not read the reviews in the internet, just saw the movie at the GALAXY Milton at  the give away Tuesday’s  general admission price of  $6.50 plus 13% tax per person with my wife Vicky who got very annoyed with my whispers on how the apes are not apes at all but  are really very human. I was sort of excited when  a  discovered perspective dawned on me.  

 I believe the movie series on the apes and their planet belongs to the genre of science fiction. Quite popular and big  dollar grosser  because of the incredible beauty  resulting from the use of advance animation technology. As an example Johnny Depp as the animated Rango attempted to outgross  Sylvester Stallone’s very human Rambo. Computerized science fiction animation may already have gained the competitive edge over  war, horror and superstition, cops and robbers, and romance movies.

 I thought  science fiction books don’t sell as much as the others in the genre and it is more difficult to write until a science fiction writer suggesting a  contrary view,  said:  it is so easy. Like  characters in love and hate relationships in a sleepy town; just move the town and the characters  to  a  light years planet away from Jupiter or take them back to the past million years to the days of dinosaurs or  catapult them as robots to year 3010  or  let a Palawan monkey virus  turn the characters into  green upright vampire geckos and voila! You got a science fiction block buster for a sci-fi  story

 That science fiction writer is right, writing sci-fi is no sweat. What they did to Marcos  and Elizalde’s  faked pre-historic tree men Tasadays, surely earned accolades  and millions of dollars for the film makers and actors of the movie Avatar.  They just made the concept of the Tasadays as hybrid human-aliens. Taller with tails, with the  physique of Michelangelo’s human models,   living in Empire State high rise trees,  with pterosaurs as flying motorcycles, and with the dubious absence of Isaac Newton’s  pull of gravity (as with vampire Robert Pattinson  jumping from tree top to tree top); that’s creative  science fiction.   

 Anyway, the “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”  featured devastated  San Francisco California  of Planet Earth (later becoming planet of the Apes?) as the film’s entire setting. Some apes being studied and on advanced experiments like giant mice, escaped to the hills or forests (deserts?); because  of advanced human inefficiency  they became unaccounted for until after the  humans against human war of extermination left only  a few hundred human survivors  and behold probably thousands of apes as survivors. Their surviving numbers sort of support my naughty perspective of them switching roles. Surviving apes should not be that numerous; more than the number of humans. That’s what some say is a sample of  the American overkill part of their movies.

 Anyway that’s also where I got my money’s worth; watching Filipino  dramatic emotions emoted by apes with Bong Revilla as Caesar and Jinggoy as Koba  his traitor closed in security . The  movie was said to have earned $36.3 million on its first week end showing. It is much better than the first one I saw  13 years ago where  the lady ape played by British actress Helena Bonham Carter fell in love and got kissed by her human Romeo. Go see the current one  and  know  why I preferred to view  the humans  there as the good apes and the apes behaving like humans. Come to think of  the role switch, there’s no big deal at all because both apes and humans belong to the animal kingdom.

 Finally and I am not joking, Filipino movies and teleserye have arrived if and when they can convert into a 3D animation of lovely cats and dogs the characters of  the teleserye  “Be Careful with My Heart,”   or animate the Ang Panday Movies   characters into  upright horses and carabaos.

 And final finally,  what’s  the planet of the apes view of  the Noynoy-Supreme Court entanglement?  I wrote some paragraphs   about  it.  Certainly not ape-like but very vociferous human-like, below:

 The Executive Branch  (EB) have all the facts of  governance which are not  at the lazy finger tips of the legislative and judicial  branches. Even without using the police and the army, facts can  castrate  enemies.  Except  for the Commission on Audit (COA)  Malacanang and all its  departments  down to their  micro and adhoc  units have a record of  WHERE ALL TAXPAYERS  MONEY  go.  

So the Executive Branch  have all the aces  being  the primus inter pares of the three branches.  However,  the separation and equalization of  powers of the three branches  are in reality doctrinal,  ephemeral,  imaginary,  intangible,  abstract, boneless,  theoretical, unless honored in lip service and practice by the dreamers and journalists of democracy.  People are blinded  and mislead to believe that  any other highest branch of  government  can have equal powers  with the EB, the only branch entrusted  by the constitution to command the military and the police (which can hand cup   for trial   all suspect members of the two branches),  also to have sole control and management  of the cosmic fire and water, energy, citizen behaviour and natural resources. What is real and tangible is that Governance is what the entire  EB does  or fails to do.  

It is unthinkable:  to  remove or  delete or erase the Executive Branch  and let  the  Legislative or the Judicial Branches or both to take over  the country—something beyond  any weirdest dream.  But it is thinkable and doable surgery  to abolish and say goodbye  to the legislative and judicial branches of backyard powers  and perform  a  make over of the EB.  What, How and Why the hell is that?  For more than a century it has  already been tried and practiced  by countries more progressive  than stagnant  countries like the Philippines. The President AND HIS  CABINET (elected by the people)  should  rule and make rules, laws are no longer laws (to detoxify lawyers); lawmakers  become obsolete  when laws  become mere public policies. No more Supreme or Appeals Court more corrupt than the King’s or Queen’s Aristocratic Court of the France of yore. Just  a  High Court and lower courts  to interpret  public policy. No more jurisprudence mambo-jumbo, no more zombies  in expensive barong.  

If adultery and plunder are against public policy, no more  Marriage Annulment  or Christian donation legalized palusot, to jail these immorals  must all go.  Authoritarianism? Totalitarianism? Dictatorship?  Naaahh. Hindi po Kuya. Hindi rin po  Ate.  England, Scotland and Wales; Australia, New Zealand, Canada, etc where law and lawmakers are not bywords of the society.  These   are not  Dictatorship Countries. Kuya. Ate,  Parliamentary Government  lang po.  Kitang-kita po yan ng mga  OFW sa mga bansang ganyan ang gobierno .

Gusto nila yan. Masunurin po sila diyan  hindi tulad  pag nasa Pilipinas  sila kasi takot makulong;  kasi sa abroad  hirap humanap ng  abogado de areglo.  Puede po ang Parliament sa atin  Kuya, Ate. Kalaban po  niyan yung magaling mangatwiran,  mga hinolma ng American colonial law;  yung din mga pamilya ng politico mawawalan ng dilehensiya  at pwestong pang kurakot; pati yung mga mahihirap  natutulog sa banig sa sahig ayaw lumipat sa kama.  Filipinos can do the change  as  they did in EDSA I.

 

 

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