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Planet of the Apes Makes the Beach a World Reframe

Planet of the Apes (1968) ยท The Statue of Liberty ending converts the alien-planet adventure into a buried Earth story

The ending works because the map is wrong at the largest possible scale. Exploration, captivity, language, and hierarchy all snap into a different history once the beach supplies the missing landmark.

Why it works

The reveal changes genre after the fact. What looked like distant-world satire becomes home-world indictment, making geography itself the final reversal.

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