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In the last scene of the movie,
How the heck did this happen? What is the meaning of this ending? |
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The time travel mechanism in the movie is poorly explained within the film itself. In the DVD box, they had a little pamphlet that explains it better. Essentially, the later you go through the electromagnetic anomaly, the earlier you arrive on the other side. So if you went through, then I went through a day later, I would arrive before you, but not necessarily a day earlier than you. This is why the crashed Oberon looked ancient. It also explains the ending. At some point after Leo left, some apes followed, and ended up in Earth's distant past where they took over. |
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I don't think there is a meaning, I've always believed it was just meant to be a WTF moment that harkens back to the original film(except in the original film it had been heavily foreshadowed already). But, for the sake of argument, when Leo left there were 2 spaceships marooned on that planet, the wreck of the Oberon & Leo's own pod at the bottom of the lake. Presumably, the Apes & Humans were intelligent enough to figure out either the basic workings of the pod or to build something based on the wrecked craft. The way that the time anomaly worked in the film makes it possible that even if it took generations for the apes to develop space travel they could still have ended up in Earth's past, changing history. In a larger sense, the ending evokes the ending of the Planet of the Apes novel, where the hero has an adventure on a planet ruled by apes, and then inexplicably finds Earth ruled by apes upon his return. |
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If you watched the movie and saw that Thayed was the only one that knew about the crashed space ship that leo entered that planet with because he killed the other 2 apes. Thayed had the gun his father gave him before he died and that's a possible way he could of got out, with that gun he had power over the apes. After that he changed history |
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