Planet of the Apes (2001)

Overview
"Planet of the Apes" (2001) is a sci-fi motion picture directed by Tim Burton, including Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Clarke Duncan, Paul Giamatti, and Estella Warren. An astronaut 'Leo Davidson' has actually been lost on a world inhabited by humanoid apes who treat people as servants in a militaristic society. He leads a disobedience versus the military leader in a mission to go back to Earth.

Plot
The story starts aboard the space station Oberon in 2029 where Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) is training apes for space expedition. When one of his skilled apes, Pericles, is lost in an electro-magnetic storm, Leo chooses to discover him, just to experience time dilation and crash on an unidentified world in the year 5021.

Life on earth
In the world, human beings live primitively under the rule of highly sophisticated apes. Humans are thought about an inferior species, caught as family pets, slaves, or for sport. Leo is rapidly captured by a ruthless orangutan slave trader, Limbo (Paul Giamatti), who sells him to Ari (Helena Bonham Carter), a caring chimpanzee.

Escape and Rebellion
As Ari concerns her society's treatment of people, she helps Leo and a couple of human servants escape. With the help of her servant, Krull, they voyage through a forbidden region to discover the lost city of Calima where Leo thinks he may collaborate a rescue.

Conflict and Resolution
Leo's strategy to liberate people creates a power battle in between General Thade (Tim Roth) and Ari's father, Senator Sandar. Thade discovers human beings are not an inferior race and looks for a human disobedience to keep ape supremacy. Long-lasting fights and betrayals, Leo finds the fact about the world.

It was once the Oberon space station, crashed and stated a no-fly zone by the apes when they mutated due to an experimental infection. The humans are, in reality, descendants of the lost crew, and the apes their offsprings.

Final Showdown and Twist Ending
Leo summons his initial vessel, triggering turmoil amongst apes, who see this as part of the prophecy. The vessel carries Pericles - mistaken for the Ape God Semos. Throughout the occurring chaos, Thade cripples Pericles and battles Leo. However, Leo traps Thade within the vessel, and with the help of powerful explosives, the human slaves secure their victory.

Leo uses the abandoned pod of Pericles to return house, to Earth. Upon landing, he realizes the world has actually altered gauging from the reactions of individuals around him. Leo finds himself standing in front of a grand monument that honors none besides Thade, revealing that even in the world, apes are dominant. The stunned Leo gets surrounded by police - apes, closing the movie with a hint at an even bigger transformed truth.

Conclusion
With a multi-layered story, Burton's "Planet of the Apes" checks out the principle of evolution and de-evolution, dominance, and subjugation, power and freedom. Through an appealing twist, the film portrays an alternate reality where the apes guideline both in the world and Earth, tough mankind's location in the universal hierarchy. The motion picture's open ending leaves viewers pondering life, fate, and the thin line between beings calling themselves advanced or primitive.

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