Feltes- Duality of Species

In the movie Planet Of The Apes, redirected by Tim Burton, there are many dualities created between the two alternate time frames involved in the movie. The duality that struck me the hardest was the duality between the two species involved, apes and men. In the first scene of the movie, we see an ape named Pericles flying a plane in a flight simulator run by highly advanced humans aboard an advanced space ship. The apes in the beginning are used to man flights considered to dangerous for humans, and are kept in cages and fed treats. Eventually Pericles is sent by the commander of the ship to check out an electrical storm considered too dangerous for a man to go, symbolizing the first unethical treatment of the opposite species in the movie. Mark Wahlberg ignores his flight commanders orders not to follow and chases after Pericles, his favorite ape in an attempt to save him, and gets transported through time to a wild world where he meets primitive humans that are running through a forest. They are captured by highly advanced apes who use primitive tools to capture and enslave the humans. The first scene we see after the humans are captured is them inside primitive cages that resemble a jail, and we see the apes mocking the humans inferiority and minimum brain power, which is a direct parallel to the treatment of apes aboard the spaceship in the beginning of the movie. Wahlberg at first believes all of the apes to be savages and actually takes the ape that saves him from slavery as a hostage in one scene. Eventually, the ape who saved him joins him in an escapade to escape the city of apes they are trapped in. The violent general of the apes chases after them throughout the whole movie, and can be considered a parallel to the spaceship commander form the beginning of the movie in that he views the opposite gender as disposable and primarily to be used as sacrifices. Towards the end of the movie, Wahlberg traps the general in a glass prison inside of the spaceship, and ends up kissing an ape, which shows how his character changed from one who thought of all apes as savages to one who truly respected the apes and considered them his equals.