When I was asked in class to choose a movie which brings out the man vs nature theme, my mind immediately fell upon the movie 2012, which I’d watched just recently and had made an impact on me.
The movie is aptly named after the “2012 doomsday predictions” based on the apocalyptic prophecies of the ancient Mayans who believed that that the world as we know it would come to an end in the year 2012.
So this scientific thriller starts off with Satnam, an Indian astrophysicist who makes a remarkable and potentially catastrophic discovery. He learns that the neutrinos from a massive solar flare are causing the temperature of the Earth’s core to rise rapidly. An American geologist, Adrian gives a report of this to the President of the United States, which shows how serious the issue was in first place.
As the leaders of the various nations learn more about the scale of the impending doom,they hold hatch up a secret project to ensure humanity’s survival. Like the mythical Noah’s Ark, an ark which could carry around 400k people was being constructed somewhere in Tibet and the people who would be allowed into it would be chosen from a lottery. (:O) In order to get fund, they also allowed rich people to buy their way into the ark,for a neat billion euros per person. In order to preserve and propagate our “civilization”,our valuable treasures like artworks etc were also moved to the Himalayas.
Jackson,a science fiction writer is the main protagonist and once while on a visit to the Yellowstone national park and finds out about the 2012 phenomenon,the ark etc from a radio show host who resides there and the unusually large earthquakes in the Los Angeles area and begins to wonder if all this is going to really happen. His instinct takes over and he along with his family leave away on a private plane just in the nick of time as a major earthquake strikes LA and swallows it.As disaster after disaster unfolds in different parts of the world, those who were lucky enough to win the “lottery to live” gathered in Tibet where the Ark was situated. The president of the US shows heroic sacrifice by opting to stay back and address his people and ultimately dies when a mega tsunami hits the capital.
Meanwhile there is also a megatsunami approaching the site of the ark and there is not much time left for the ark to close when they spotted a technical difficulty.Jackson somehow manages to make the gears work and the crew gained control of the ship before the impact.
In the final scene, after experiencing the full fury of nature,and as the waters receded, the ark opens to the view of the Drakensburg mountains in South Africa which has become the tallest point in the world situated in the appropriately named “Cape of good hope” thereby ending the movie on a slightly optimistic notes while dishing out warnings and caveats in liberal amounts to scare us.
The movie is aptly named after the “2012 doomsday predictions” based on the apocalyptic prophecies of the ancient Mayans who believed that that the world as we know it would come to an end in the year 2012.
So this scientific thriller starts off with Satnam, an Indian astrophysicist who makes a remarkable and potentially catastrophic discovery. He learns that the neutrinos from a massive solar flare are causing the temperature of the Earth’s core to rise rapidly. An American geologist, Adrian gives a report of this to the President of the United States, which shows how serious the issue was in first place.
As the leaders of the various nations learn more about the scale of the impending doom,they hold hatch up a secret project to ensure humanity’s survival. Like the mythical Noah’s Ark, an ark which could carry around 400k people was being constructed somewhere in Tibet and the people who would be allowed into it would be chosen from a lottery. (:O) In order to get fund, they also allowed rich people to buy their way into the ark,for a neat billion euros per person. In order to preserve and propagate our “civilization”,our valuable treasures like artworks etc were also moved to the Himalayas.
Jackson,a science fiction writer is the main protagonist and once while on a visit to the Yellowstone national park and finds out about the 2012 phenomenon,the ark etc from a radio show host who resides there and the unusually large earthquakes in the Los Angeles area and begins to wonder if all this is going to really happen. His instinct takes over and he along with his family leave away on a private plane just in the nick of time as a major earthquake strikes LA and swallows it.As disaster after disaster unfolds in different parts of the world, those who were lucky enough to win the “lottery to live” gathered in Tibet where the Ark was situated. The president of the US shows heroic sacrifice by opting to stay back and address his people and ultimately dies when a mega tsunami hits the capital.
Meanwhile there is also a megatsunami approaching the site of the ark and there is not much time left for the ark to close when they spotted a technical difficulty.Jackson somehow manages to make the gears work and the crew gained control of the ship before the impact.
In the final scene, after experiencing the full fury of nature,and as the waters receded, the ark opens to the view of the Drakensburg mountains in South Africa which has become the tallest point in the world situated in the appropriately named “Cape of good hope” thereby ending the movie on a slightly optimistic notes while dishing out warnings and caveats in liberal amounts to scare us.
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