【紐約客影評(píng)】猩球崛起——進(jìn)化，變成革命(高潮篇)

Caesar spreads the serum to the other animals, and what starts as a prison revolt quickly becomes a species revolt.The changes in the apes’ intelligence are so vivid that we experience the alterations as a stirring birth—the origins of revolutionary consciousness—even though it is we humans, in the end, who will get overthrown. In a truly creepy moment, Caesar goes back to the house in which he was raised and stares silently at Will and his girlfriend (Freida Pinto) in bed together. The scene marks a sexy return to Boulle’s idea: for apes, human behavior becomes an object of avid curiosity and study. And we wonder, Who’s the prime primate, at the top of the species hierarchy? The position is suddenly up for grabs.

Digitized acting (if that’s the right phrase) should be as warmly recognized as any other kind of acting.When Will arrives at the pen, intending to take Caesar home, the ape sees the leash in Will’s hands and sorrowfully but firmly closes the door of the cell—staying behind with his own kind forever.To register the moment, Serkis lengthens his jaw in sullen resolve, turns his back, and gives Caesar a regretful shudder—the scene is almost tragic. Throughout the movie, the filmmakers capture tiny changes in mood and physical appearance, and the grand effects are startling.

Finally, the apes break free, running all over San Francisco, busting into the biotech company’s corporate headquarters and liberating the remaining apes in Will’s lab. For once, the riot of movement is exhilarating rather than just extravagant. I’ve seen dozens of digital creatures and endless cars smashing through windows, but when the freed apes, like water bursting through a dam, pour through the building’s glass walls at different levels, the image is a pop epiphany of freedom. “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” is spectacle with a kick: the transcendence of the normal in creatures so like ourselves is both an entertainment and a needling rebuke to human vanity.

Digital is here to stay, but this terrific movie tells us that it’s time to move on from the current clichés. The superheroes and the thundering plastic toys need to be tossed into the back of the closet, where they belong. If invention, wild and free, yet tied to emotion and philosophical speculation, is given a chance, digital filmmaking could have a more brilliant future than any we can now imagine.