Discuss Battle for the Planet of the Apes
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lawgiver cries
posted by manfromatlantisSTAFFMOD on February 20, 2017 at 12:56 AM
why does the lawgiver cry at the end?
Reply by tmdb43737777
on June 23, 2017 at 6:02 PM
It was to symbolize that the treaty would not last
Reply by rooprect
on April 2, 2024 at 2:11 AM
Do you mean the statue? That was actually Caesar (it’s written on the pedestal).
I thought that was the coolest ‘twist’ of the movie. The lawgiver has just told the children that humans and apes have found peace, then the little girl asks if that’s how the future will be. Lawgiver says something like “Only the dead know.” and the camera pans to the statue of Caesar crying.
In other words, the spirit of Caesar knows that peace won’t last, implying that all their efforts to rewrite the future have been in vain. The world is still going to blow up in the year 3955.