MOVIES: After watching Rise of the Planet of the Apes

The society of apes on Earth will be no better than that of humans. That's the message I take from Rise of the Planet of the Apes after a curious creative choice by the screenwriters/director (or whoever the hell was responsible for this). Rogers, the dude from Genesys, was not saved. The simian society began not with an act of mercy, but one of callousness, motivated by revenge. Since the moviemakers were going to kill off all the humans anyway, I wonder about the decision to choose against mercy in that scene. It's a reflection of the modern audience's lust for revenge, is it not?

Don't get me wrong: I'm not complaining. I think it's more "realistic." (The quotes are because, well, the movie was about a primate revolution set in San Francisco.) Humanity is brutal, why shouldn't primates be the same?

Anyway, we're spared from a bit of moralizing. Though speaking of that: in the original Planet of the Apes, we're to believe the apes on planet Earth simply evolved (notice the astronaut whose cryogenic chamber fails and we see he has grown a mane of hair, much like apes; there's also a scene where a simian scientist basically says the reason apes evolved so well was because of something to do with thumbs or appendages or something). In this new movie, evolution is out of the picture; the apes became the dominant species because of something that was created.

I'm assuming the moviemakers didn't intend this to be a thing. Art and literature can be dissected, its meanings bantered -- in short, art is supposed to be talked about. This? Rise of the Planet of the Apes? It's 21st century Hollywood: all too predictable, not too controversial. And with that, I will stop saying any more.