A week or two ago, I went to a screening of "The Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" and saw "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" right before. It had occurred to me right after the film was over, (which was fantastic by the way) that this movie series is an application of art and science.
The movie plot centers around a society of apes and their conflicts with humans. The result of the advanced species of ape is because of the ALZ-113 virus which wipes out a great majority of the human population to the point anarchy has ensued. The first movie is literally about medicine and how the invention of this new bio-technology can cure Alheizmers disease. When used on the apes, it helped them to evolve into new, hyper intelligent primates.
What I thought was interesting about the plot was that with bio-technology being so new and biomedicine being so new, there are a ridiculous amount of possibilities that have yet to be explored. Of course this movie is fiction, but it depicts a possible reality of what would happen if we let bio-tech run into the wrong hands. It also raises the questions of the possibilities of medicine in the future, and the possibilities of bio chemicals to help or hurt us in the future.
I think it is a great way to look at art and science in an interesting way. Never would have I thought about the film in this manner, had I not taken this class.
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