Rise of the Planet of the Apes - 2011 - Movie Report

In the movie Rise of the planet of the Apes(2011), it tells the story about the apes fight back the humans when they feel their life are threatening and force to changed. This is a reflection on our society that although the strong ones always pick on the weaker one, but one day these weaker people will fight back when they feel their are nothing to lose anymore. Also human has done many terrible things to break the balance of the nature, it results in global warming and other unusual natural phenomenons. The movie is kind of a warning to people that we should respect nature and trying not to break them. In addition, we should stop using animals as an experiment on our new medicine because we are ruining their life; maybe one day they will really fight back like what’s happening in the movie. The opening scene of Rise of the Planet of the Apes sets up the whole movie by telling the entire story from the beginning by shooting these hunters trying to catch an ape to do their medical experiment. The director uses variety of different camera shots to present different meanings of each shot, he uses forest as a symbol of freedom; in contrast, the science lab as the opposite.

In the opening scene of the movie, the director uses the establishing shot and aerial shot to set the opening scene in the forest; the camera goes around to show wild and free lives in the forest for those apes. Then the camera switch to focus on bunch of apes walk in a straight line with handheld shot to show these apes live their life with no worries; however, the director switch to a low angel shot filming from the ground to the sky. During the scene, these apes look up in the sky and see group of birds flying away shows the tension and crisis sense. After the director gives us a sense that something exciting might happen, he soon switch to a reverse angle to show the antagonistic between the apes and the hunters; hunters are the one that is more active because they have advantage over the ape, and these apes are trying to find what kind of danger it is around them. The director immediately give us a close up shot for the apes to provide a sense of nervous for these preys; the camera focus on the ape’s eyes to show how concentrate these apes are trying to escape from danger. Then these hunters start yelling and running