Planet of the Apes blog post 10

In Planet of the Apes there was a lot of xenophobia that went on during the film. To begin when the space travelers first landed, they saw some sort of scar crow that were lined along the mountains. This makes me think that they are trying to scare some sort of creature away. Something that the apes didn't want to encounter. When Taylor got captured, they treated him like an animal. Even when he started to show signs of intelligence, they shunned him away thinking that he was still dumb. It seemed like the apes became afraid of what humans would do to them because they knew that humans once walked the Earth far before them. The lead ape didn't want anything to do with these "animals" and thought they were born to kill. I also think there was some discrimination between apes as well. You could tell what apes were higher up and had the ability to give orders. Some seemed to just be a guard all their life. It was almost as if there were apes inside that didn't get treated fairly as well. Its unfair that where ever your born into, is the life that is chosen for you. The apes didn't seem like they had a decision for who would be the lead ape. He seemed as though he crowned himself that because he knew so much about humans. When he told Taylor that he knew about the humans, why would he then treat man still the way he did. Obviously the apes weren't as intelligent as man because they seemed to feel no remorse for torture either. They could spray man with fierce water and starve them without feeling a bit bad because that's how they were born. The only ape that seemed to show true feelings was the woman ape doctor. She cared about Taylor and what he had to say to them. She knew that there were more intellectual beings out there but her civilization wouldn't allow her to study that topic more into detail. I feel that there really wasn't any hope for the ape civilization because without being able to learn the history of their planet. Things don't make sense. You cant live in a society that restricts you from expanding your knowledge and that's exactly what the apes were doing.