How Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a Great Metaphor for the US Response to 9/11, Amongst Other Things
The 2014 remake of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a great movie. It also features a sequence which, from the point of view of the history of international relations, provides a surprisingly accurate metaphor for the use of moral panics as instruments of statecraft. In this particular sequence we see two processes…