The Day After Tomorrow
Imagine getting caught in the eye of the storm. But this storm is no ordinary storm. It's a icy hurricane where the temperature drops at the rate of 50 degrees per second. It is a storm which can turn everything it encounters in its way into ice and snow. It is a storm which can even solidify even your breadth, and you are dead before you know it. It is a storm where choppers crash because their fuel solidified in a matter of milliseconds.
The thought itself is enough to turn my guts into water. But now imagine seeing it on screen. It is gonna be one harrowing experience.
The Day After Tomorrow is the one movie I am talking about. It teaches us humility by showing how powerful Nature can be. It falls in the same genre as Twister, in fact betters it by a long way. The funda goes like this:
Global warming is gradually pushing the world into an abyss where the end of the tunnel is the new Ice Age. This is predicted by a new model by a scientist, the protagonist professor Jack [surname is Holt or something... I did not get it] in an environmental conference in New Delhi [Yes ! They showed India... they even show a sikh cabbie in the US]. However, he believes that the climatic shift can take place over a few hundred years, and we need to start working on it. The US Vice President however, feels that the economy is far more important and that we cannot waste time on such trivialities.
However, at the same time, a huge mass of ice, almost the size of say Greenland breaks of in the Arctic. And that starts a chain of events which would change the fact of civilization. The ocean currents start show inexplicable behaviour, and tornados rip apart Los Angeles.
Jack's son Sam, in the meantime, gets caught in NY, and the ICE whirlwind makes it way towards it. What follows simply churns your stomach out. Jack's journey to NY in the epicentre of the devastation to save his son is a remarkable feat.
I won't write any more coz it will tell you too much.
However, what is worth pondering is the way the movie predicts how we can not always tame Nature. Since centuries, man has tried that and has been successful to a great degree. We have been cutting trees, ploughing back land and harming the ecological balance, not just on soil but also in the atmosphere. Nature has a life of its own and we should not take its quiescence to be a symbol of weakness. Nature is slow and gradual, but when it unleashes its full fury upon us, we will be mere puppets, capable of only enduring and praying. Man cannot keep on challenging Nature, Nature maintains a balance, whereby it offsets each physical process by another. It is a very delicate and optimised cycle. And by disrupting it, we are only wishing poor fate upon ourselves.
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"I have a dream" --- only when i'm sleepin'
The thought itself is enough to turn my guts into water. But now imagine seeing it on screen. It is gonna be one harrowing experience.
The Day After Tomorrow is the one movie I am talking about. It teaches us humility by showing how powerful Nature can be. It falls in the same genre as Twister, in fact betters it by a long way. The funda goes like this:
Global warming is gradually pushing the world into an abyss where the end of the tunnel is the new Ice Age. This is predicted by a new model by a scientist, the protagonist professor Jack [surname is Holt or something... I did not get it] in an environmental conference in New Delhi [Yes ! They showed India... they even show a sikh cabbie in the US]. However, he believes that the climatic shift can take place over a few hundred years, and we need to start working on it. The US Vice President however, feels that the economy is far more important and that we cannot waste time on such trivialities.
However, at the same time, a huge mass of ice, almost the size of say Greenland breaks of in the Arctic. And that starts a chain of events which would change the fact of civilization. The ocean currents start show inexplicable behaviour, and tornados rip apart Los Angeles.
Jack's son Sam, in the meantime, gets caught in NY, and the ICE whirlwind makes it way towards it. What follows simply churns your stomach out. Jack's journey to NY in the epicentre of the devastation to save his son is a remarkable feat.
I won't write any more coz it will tell you too much.
However, what is worth pondering is the way the movie predicts how we can not always tame Nature. Since centuries, man has tried that and has been successful to a great degree. We have been cutting trees, ploughing back land and harming the ecological balance, not just on soil but also in the atmosphere. Nature has a life of its own and we should not take its quiescence to be a symbol of weakness. Nature is slow and gradual, but when it unleashes its full fury upon us, we will be mere puppets, capable of only enduring and praying. Man cannot keep on challenging Nature, Nature maintains a balance, whereby it offsets each physical process by another. It is a very delicate and optimised cycle. And by disrupting it, we are only wishing poor fate upon ourselves.
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"I have a dream" --- only when i'm sleepin'
posted by kpowerinfinity @ 8:40 am
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