Things go bad when they encounter the last
human holdouts in this post-apocalyptic world: a nervy survivalist community led by Dreyfus (Gary Oldman) whose instinct is to get tough with the monkeys: but Malcolm (Jason Clarke) wants to
reach out
and generally make nice with the
apes.
Their parallels are fully realized by the time the climax is
reached and the war has begun,
and the connection that is formed with both
human and ape makes the war all the more tragic.