2010, not 2012
13.11.2009
Unlike millions of people around the world, I will not be going to the cinema this weekend to see Roland Emmerich's new disaster film, 2012. I saw it five years ago, when it was called The Day after Tomorrow. For some reason — money, probably — Emmerich keeps telling the same story:
Part I: a cataclysm threatens to destroy the entire world.
Part 2: a small group of heroic survivors fight to, well, survive.
THE END
I will be going to the cinema in 2010, though, and one of the first films I intend to see is called A Single Man. Set in Los Angeles in 1962, it tells the story of a gay, middle-aged British professor played by Colin Firth. The first interesting thing about the film is that it is based on a book by Christopher Isherwood; the second is that it was directed by fashion designer Tom Ford, who had never made a film before; and the third is that it is the complete opposite of the movies made by Roland Emmerich. The world is not destroyed. In fact, something interesting is created.
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COMMENTS
I unlike a film like 2012 because it is not a realistic situation.
Two things on the earth, we could have a problem, are:
A big comet will fall on the earth and will destroy a big area where millions of people live. The other cause could be, like millions of years ago, a vulcanic eruption will pollute the air with its ash and the human chocke, the temperature falls down and so on. Both problems are not impossible!
But the biggest problem the earth have is the mankind. We destroy our environment with our handling and our greed for money and power.
Best wishes from Bavaria!
I agree that a comet or an unprecedented volcanic eruption could have catastrophic consequences not unlike those depicted by Roland Emmerich in his films, but I find his films, well, awful. The special effects are entertaining for a while, but after a while you realize that the plot and the characters are almost non-existent. It's like listening to a heavy-metal band that can play one song only. After a while, you begin to wish for a bit more melody, a hint of harmony, a change in tempo. But Emmerich doesn't do that.
Yes, we are very greedy and our desire for money and power is endless, but we should not forget that there's never been a time in the history of the planet when more people have been alive. And more of those are better off than ever before. Of course, there's hunger, disease and war, but there never was or never will be a Utopia. Anyway, we wouldn't like it. This is still the best of all possible worlds!