After tomorrow

Gerda 2021-10-18 09:29:26

Shocked. Absolutely shocking!

"The Day After Tomorrow" deserves to be the king of special effects in disaster films. Even if I was eating hot instant noodles when I watched it, I couldn't help but tremble on the bones.
The tossing sea after the glacier melted, the hurricane that almost tore the entire Los Angeles, the entire city instantly turned into ruined walls, the huge waves rushing into New York City, and the last thousands of miles of ice. Nature restores the environmental balance destroyed by humans to another balance point in a very short period of time in a simple and rude manner. Hurricanes, tsunamis, blizzards, hail... Roland Emmerich mobilized various water weapons and turned the world upside down.
Compared to other methods of destruction of the earth such as solar storms, life weapons, viruses, etc., "The Day After Acquired" completely frightened me who was most afraid of water.

However, I still can't help but be sensible.
The warming of the earth leads to the melting of icebergs, which affects the ocean water and salt balance, which leads to disturbances in the thermal cycle of ocean currents, and strong convection causes tsunamis, hurricanes, and heavy snowstorms. Compared with other disaster films, the scientific basis of "The Day After Tomorrow" is still very rigorous.
But the explanation that the hurricane absorbed strong cold air from the troposphere caused the northern region to be instantly frozen. As far as I know only a little bit of popular science knowledge, the air pressure in the troposphere is only about one-tenth of the air pressure on the ground. When the air drops from the troposphere to the ground, the pressure of the air increases and the volume decreases. According to the first law of thermodynamics, air will release energy in the process of reducing its volume, resulting in an increase in air temperature. Then, after the strong cold air of minus 100 degrees Celsius absorbed by the hurricane reaches the ground, the lowest temperature will be around zero degrees. Therefore, it is impossible to produce the effect of freezing. Of course, Jack said it at the beginning, and now all climate models don't work. Maybe this is the reason, so all kinds of air pressure, heat, etc. are disordered, so it is frozen.

All right. I'm really picky, because the ice-covered effect is really shocking.

PS: The day after tomorrow should really be translated as "after tomorrow". The translation of "after tomorrow" is too daunting, too vernacular, and it has no warning effect. Translating directly into "the day after tomorrow" is just a waste of the profound, profound and meaningful essence of Chinese.

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Extended Reading
  • Moriah 2022-04-23 07:01:09

    The effect is good, it is really touching

  • Sonia 2021-10-20 19:00:28

    Great! It's a terrible disaster movie!

The Day After Tomorrow quotes

  • Jack Hall: [on Sam failing calculus] I'm not angry. I'm disappointed.

    Sam Hall: Do you wanna hear my side of it?

    Jack Hall: Sam, how can there be two sides?

    Sam Hall: Hey, look, I got every question right on the final and the only reason why Mr. Spengler failed me was because I didn't write out the solutions.

    Jack Hall: Why not?

    Sam Hall: I do them in my head.

    Jack Hall: Did you tell him that?

    Sam Hall: I did. He didn't believe me. He said if he couldn't do them in his head then I must be cheating.

    Jack Hall: Well, that's ridiculous! How can he fail you for being smarter than he is?

    Sam Hall: That's what I said.

    Jack Hall: [smirks] You did? How'd he take it?

    Sam Hall: He flunked me, remember?

  • Jack Hall: Who is it?

    Terry Rapson: Terry Rapson. Sorry to call you so early.

    Jack Hall: No, professor. It's alright. What is it?

    Terry Rapson: Well we've found something extraordinary... extraordinary and disturbing, that is. You recall what you said in New Delhi about how polar melting might disrupt the North Atlantic current?

    Jack Hall: Yes.

    Terry Rapson: Well... I think it's happening.