In a summer that has seen unusually strong multiplex fare, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes might trump them all. It extremely successfully intertwines shattering effects with troubling and surprisingly challenging commentary on the state of our current political unrest.
Is it possible that Hollywood is actually developing a social conscience again? Literally billions of dollars are being spent not only on ensuring that your 3-D experience is optimal, but that pretty subversive accounts of marginalized experiences are being heard. It would be easy —and frankly lazy — to call this projective when these themes are so flagrant and thinly veiled.
