Activity No. 2
We were warned.
Directed by Roland Emmerich, this is a film on a series of natural disasters of apocalyptic proportions, based on the Mayan belief that the world is going to end of the year 2012. The cast is led by John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton and Woody Harrelson.
The movie features mega tsunamis, cataclysmic earthquakes which seemed to suddenly sprout up one after the other, firestorms, and other forms of obliteration one could only think of.
It all starts when Adrian Helmsley(Eljofor) meets up with Dr. Satnam Tsurutani(Jimi Mistry) in year 2009, before the holocaust happens. They predict a chain of calamities, and Helmsley warns the President of the United States of the impending doom. Heads of state and government then start drastic actions to ensure the survival of humanity(through government personalities were the majorities of those chosen), in secret.
Then, in the year 2012, Jackson Curtis(Cusack) takes his children Noah(Liam James) and Lilly (Morgan Lily) camping at Yellowstone National park. Then they met Charlie Frost(Harrelson), a hermit who prophesies the end of the world.
All Frost said would proved to be true, as Curtis and his family narrowly escape the Yellowstone Caldera's eruption, and a sequence of earthquakes(one of which topples, with an ironic twist, the statue of Christ of redeemer, crashing down on people). The family comes aboard a ship prepared by the government(called the ark), and eventually are saved.
Millions die because of the rise of the waters and earthquakes, and when the flood recedes, the Arks head to the Cape of Good Hope on Africa, which has risen in relation to the sea level.
Watching St Peter’s Basilica collapse. An aircraft carrier upended to descend upon the White House. The Himalayas inundated. The Yellowstone super volcano erupting. It was spectacle beyond belief. Though the events in the movie were hard to imagine, and probably impossible, I would still want to applaud 2012 for its superb effects, which in my opinion is second to none. It helps,too, that this movie was released at a time when we're all feeling the effect of climate change. This will be our warning, our wake-up call.
We were warned.
Directed by Roland Emmerich, this is a film on a series of natural disasters of apocalyptic proportions, based on the Mayan belief that the world is going to end of the year 2012. The cast is led by John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton and Woody Harrelson.
The movie features mega tsunamis, cataclysmic earthquakes which seemed to suddenly sprout up one after the other, firestorms, and other forms of obliteration one could only think of.
It all starts when Adrian Helmsley(Eljofor) meets up with Dr. Satnam Tsurutani(Jimi Mistry) in year 2009, before the holocaust happens. They predict a chain of calamities, and Helmsley warns the President of the United States of the impending doom. Heads of state and government then start drastic actions to ensure the survival of humanity(through government personalities were the majorities of those chosen), in secret.
Then, in the year 2012, Jackson Curtis(Cusack) takes his children Noah(Liam James) and Lilly (Morgan Lily) camping at Yellowstone National park. Then they met Charlie Frost(Harrelson), a hermit who prophesies the end of the world.
All Frost said would proved to be true, as Curtis and his family narrowly escape the Yellowstone Caldera's eruption, and a sequence of earthquakes(one of which topples, with an ironic twist, the statue of Christ of redeemer, crashing down on people). The family comes aboard a ship prepared by the government(called the ark), and eventually are saved.
Millions die because of the rise of the waters and earthquakes, and when the flood recedes, the Arks head to the Cape of Good Hope on Africa, which has risen in relation to the sea level.
Watching St Peter’s Basilica collapse. An aircraft carrier upended to descend upon the White House. The Himalayas inundated. The Yellowstone super volcano erupting. It was spectacle beyond belief. Though the events in the movie were hard to imagine, and probably impossible, I would still want to applaud 2012 for its superb effects, which in my opinion is second to none. It helps,too, that this movie was released at a time when we're all feeling the effect of climate change. This will be our warning, our wake-up call.
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