By Govindini Murty. There’s clearly a divide emerging between sci-fi films that believe in the value of humanity and those that don’t. On one side are films like Transformers, Battle: L.A. and Cowboys and Aliens that depict humans as heroes defending freedom and civilization. On the other side are films like Avatar, Super 8 and District 9 that take a far darker view of humanity, portraying them as villains who torture alien ‘others’ out of a lack of compassion or understanding. You can put Twentieth Century Fox’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes squarely in the latter category. Billed as a prequel to the original Planet of the Apes, which starred Charlton Heston as a heroic astronaut who fights back against the barbaric rule of a planet run by apes, Rise of the Planet of the Apes reverses every message of the original film by featuring the apes as the noble, intelligent heroes and humans as the sadistic, barbaric villains.
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