Planet of the Apes and a harbinger of the end times

I watched Dawn of the Planet of the Apes today, and I saw a true image of the definite end of civilization. Really.

First, a quick review.

Great film, taking a well-used end-of-the-world plot and putting talking apes into it.

If I had to go further, I’d say that the film focusses where it should, on the apes. The humans are there as a maguffin, a thing to get the ape civilisation changing from the idyllic to the complex. From Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, to Adam and E...