That's one way to look at it, but it's alos the most political italian movie of the 20th century, using the Sade Marquis work as plot for a 1943 setting, one that got its director (Passolini) murdered by a joint covert effort from the maffia and the government. It's a no concessions exposure of the decadant spiral that fascism and conservatism leads modern society to, the darkest critique of capitalism and consumerism you can find as it takes it to its absurd bottom logic, when men become the product. It's also considered an absolute masterpiece and alongside Night Porter, The Last temptaion of Christ and most Fassbinder movies one of the most polarizing movie ever made. And it's a stunning visual work
And it is indeed tough to stomach, but I managed to get through it a couple times, while I'm still failing with Armagedon

Of secondary interest I found this video today and it really grabbed me:


My initial gut reaction was that her handlers taught her this message and this is but mere puppetry, and while the inner child in me screams, "Not so! She knows what she's saying!" even if my more cynical mind is right it doesn't make the message any less important or really lessen the fact that a gorilla is an excellent spokesperson for the message whether it's intellectually aware of the contents of it or not.

I figured it could indeed be both, and it is an interesting bit of film making; one of the many that make the first Apes film so special.

Question: Does watching APES movies on You Tube counts?

Exactly this, as long as it's "classic" it doesn't matter how you watch it. Although for anyone with HBO all the classic Planet of the Apes films are ondemand this month so I guess it wasn't just me who had some attachment between those films and January!

From prior to 2006 and at least 60 minutes long.