Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” starring Gary Oldman, the sequel to 2011’s “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” could win big at the box office,as this summer has few blockbuster releases, experts say.
The movie starts off 10 years after the last one, with a monkey-borne virus having devastated the human population and crippled the Earth, embodied in an artfully ravaged San Francisco.
The apes have meanwhile developed into talking, reasoning human-like creatures who ride horses. Their leader is Caesar, who led them to freedom in the previous movie.
Throughout the film, director Matt Reeves uses metaphors to highlight humans’ and apes’ similarities, stressing that fear, greed and egotism can also corrupt monkeys, who previously had organized themselves for the common good.
