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‘War For the Planet of the Apes’ and the Nature of Walls
‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ is Caesar’s final fight. And as is the case for a final fight he must fight a final enemy. Who is this enemy? It is Alpha-Omega, a paramilitary group which wants to restore human supremacy to the world. The enemy is explicitly intolerance and hate, but it is sub-textually Fascism.
The Alpha-Omega group is coded as American Fascism. To read them as anything other than American Fascism is to be politically ignorant. Regardless, Alpha-Omega subjugates and enslaves the apes. In doing this the apes are stripped of their being as apes. Alpha-Omega places them into cages, keeping and feeding them like animals. They are whipped and tortured and forced to build a wall.
The nature of the apes reverts back to their original selves from the first film, i.e. in bondage. The very values which Caesar has based his entire existence on is now on the precipice of coming crumbling down. Caesar needs to fight this enemy or it will destroy everything he has worked to build.
As we said the enemy is fascism, but it is also personalized in the figure of The Colonel…
