Scientist Will Rodman is determined to find a cure for Alzheimer's, the disease which has slowly consumed his father. Will feels certain he is close to a breakthrough and tests his latest serum on apes, noticing dramatic increases in intelligence and brain activity in the primate subjects – especially Caesar, his pet chimpanzee.
This movie contains 11 potentially triggering events.
After the baby ape wakes up the main character, he takes it to the bathroom and sits in the room with the shower running for humidity, but they don't go into the shower.
Autism is listed as a “disease” and equates rates rising as a bad thing (for context: in reality changes to the diagnosis criteria made getting one a little easier which allistics went (well) apeshit over and basically treated it like it was an epidemic)