Corruption In Julius Caesar

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Another character who heavily experiences regret is Caesar’s son, Blue Eyes. Throughout the movie, Blue Eyes, and adolescent chimpanzee, distances himself from his father, due to frustration with how his father trusted the humans. Due to this, and the fact that he admired Koba, Blue Eyes helps rally the apes when Caesar is seemingly killed, and leads them into battle following Koba, who, unbeknownst to Blue Eyes, was actually the assassin. When Blue Eye actually gets into battle, however, he realizes his mistake as he watches his people getting slaughtered on the battlefield; Blue Eyes goes on to greater regret his decision to blindly support Koba, after the initial battle, as the new head of the apes imprisons all of Caesar’s loyalists, and …show more content…

This trait of the movie’s antagonist actually stems from regret. In the most powerful scene of the movie, Koba explains his frustration with Caesar, who has been allowing the humans to enter the ape territory and fix a dam to power their city. Caesar, unsure of why Koba is so upset, asks why his second-in-command is so opposed to the humans doing harmless “work.” Koba simply responds with “{Pointing to scar behind ear} Human work…{pointing to scar on forearm} Human work… {tracing scar over damaged eye} HUMAN WORK!” As a veteran test subject in a medical lab, Koba spent the first half of his life repeatidly being probed, cut, and administered experimental diseases and drugs, which left him scarred and balding. In this sense Koba has regret because he feels that he failed to protect his body and his childhood innocence by allowing the scientists to use him so immorally. This causes Koba to desire revenge because he is overcorrecting for his past failures to himself by trying to kill all humans, who he feel are responsible for his broken …show more content…

By just taking a small analysis of each of the characters it can be seen that the outcomes of dwelling on regret are all negative. In each case regret yielded only rash behavior (Koba and Dreyfus), self-loathing (Blue Eyes), or guilt (Caesar), and only lead to more violence and fatalities. In fact, of each of these characters, only one takes positive actions from his regret, and that is Caesar. Being the protagonist, this is also symbolic, because the hero is who the movie expects us to idolize, and Caesar goes from inaction and indecisiveness to taking responsibility. This, in turn, represents that we, the audience, need to learn to accept our situation. As a film mostly aimed at Americans, the message is trying to say that we must not dwell on our past mistakes. While we cannot ignore that the history of the United States is filled with many shameful moments –slavery, racism, forcibly taking the land of the Native American tribes, polluting the environment, and supporting corrupt nations that benefitted our needs while oppressing the liberty of their own people to name a few– we must realize that regardless of our actions, we can never erase these blemishes. We must realize that what has happened has happened, and we have failed. This need for acceptance of our situation is why dystopian cinema, like Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, have become blockbusters, because

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