When I saw War For The Planet Of The Apes, I enjoyed it as a date movie. (Popcorn, Coke Zero, and the company of my wife.) But I woke in the morning thinking, “why did Caesar die after he saved everybody? He never made it to the new land?”
Then with each scene replaying through my mind, the following realization unfolded…
Caesar is an archetype of Moses
Caesar, the main protagonist ape character, is an archetype (a pattern) of the Moses in the Old Testament Bible account.