In the face of disaster-"The Day After Tomorrow" film review (2)

The biggest attraction of a film, which is different from a documentary, is the use of the lens to tell the story. You cannot fail to admire Hollywood's ability to tell the story. Even a film that presents disasters makes the work vivid, full of flesh, and entertaining with plots and events. The film's narrative method is still the classic Hollywood linear narrative, which is rational, well-founded, causal and effective, reasonable, and subtle. At the beginning of the film, climatologist Jack Hall (played by Dennis Quaid) observed prehistoric climate research and pointed out that global warming brought about by the greenhouse effect will trigger an unprecedented disaster on the earth. At an international scientific forum, Dr. Jack warned government officials and the vice president of the United States to take preventive actions. In his speech, he explained that the disaster would be caused by the melting of polar ice caps due to the greenhouse effect. The composition of sea water is changing rapidly, which will cause drastic changes in the global climate, and the earth will once again enter the ice age. The vice president of the United States takes economic and industrial development as the first goal. At the meeting, he asked Jack "When will the disaster come?" Jack could not give a specific conclusion, but could only answer "Maybe it will be half a year, maybe the day after tomorrow." Will happen". However, the Vice President of the United States not only refuted Jack's research results, but also ignored his suggestions. Just after the gathering, a marine scientist who had met Dr. Jack Hall had a long conversation with him. Both believed that ocean currents are extremely closely related to the global climate, and the old scientist hurried back. He set up a marine monitoring station at high latitudes, and the vision had already occurred before he arrived. Several ocean monitors alarmed at the same time, and soon all monitors around the world sent alarms. The marine scientist talked to Jack and told him the reaction of the ocean, and finally proposed to Jack that to predict the current climate development, he can only use Jack's own analysis system. Jack was surprised that his system analyzes prehistoric climate. The old scientist said , This is the only system available now. Jack was very sad to bid farewell to the old scientist. The research institute was short of fuel and power. The helicopter heading for rescue was "frozen". The old scientist and his two assistants drank the last bottle of whiskey he had kept for many years and waited peacefully for death. . The climatic disaster has already appeared before people have time to react. A large number of severe weather has occurred, and the government can only appease the people in the usual way. Jack was eager to report the matter to the government, but was again unreasonably opposed by the Vice President. In the end, Jack’s boss privately agreed to use the host resources for analysis, but only gave him 48 hours. In this respect, he has a great responsibility. On the other hand, the matter is already very urgent. Within 48 hours, Jack and his assistants tried their best to make statistical analysis and finally came to a conclusion. After begging to see the White House, Jack urged the President very directly that he can only announce that all Americans south of 40 degrees north latitude will evacuate to the equator as soon as possible. The President was shocked. On the one hand, he blamed the Vice President who only cares about the economy and despise the environment, and he begged Jack to think about it. Ways to save the other half of the people. Jack said that the people north of the line can only keep as warm as possible and wait for rescue. There is no other way, because the people north of 40 degrees are not allowed to evacuate in time. Someone scolded Jack for this irresponsible suggestion, and Jack’s boss told them that Jack’s son was in Manhattan, New York, which was north of 40 degrees north latitude. According to Jack’s plan, he did not consider his son’s survival hope at all. In the end, the president decided to immediately follow Jack's proposal to launch an evacuation plan, and he promised that he was the last person to evacuate the White House. Dr. Jack Hall’s son Sam (Jack Gyllenhaal) is participating in a national high school literacy contest with his favorite girl in New York. From the time they went on the plane until the end of the literacy contest, the climate has been at a very noticeable speed. Became bad. They saw large animals that were "frozen" during the prehistoric glacial period in the museum. After the competition, it rained heavily in New York. he We returned home with new friends we met in New York, but there was an instinct that New York was already insecure. When we drove to Philadelphia to pick up their new friend’s brother, there was a traffic jam on the road in front of the New York Library. Then the tsunami swallowed Manhattan. , And even the ships were rushed to the streets of the city. They hide in the library. All communication signals were interrupted. Sam ventured to talk to Jack with a wired telephone on the first floor that was being flooded. Jack told him to hide in the house, light up everything that could be used for heating, and wait for rescue. Then there was heavy snow, and the water caused by the tsunami and heavy rain was frozen. They tried hard to stop those who were going to venture out on foot, but very few people were willing to listen to them and stay behind. Those who escaped on foot in the snow were eventually frozen to death outside. Jack and their assistants had done polar operations. He decided to venture to New York to conduct rescue operations in the ice and snow. They first drove and then walked in the ice and snow. After a companion died heroically, Jack finally entered Manhattan with his last seriously injured assistant. At the same time, Washington was also hit by thunderstorms and tornadoes. The scene was very grand, and basically the entire city was destroyed. The president kept his promise. After their last group of people left boarded the plane, the plane crashed in bad weather soon. After that, ice and snow covered all the earth's surface except tropical and subtropical, and a new ice age began. When the scene returned to the United States, some Americans who survived all escaped across the border to Mexico. The U.S. government forgave all Mexico’s debts, and the Americans finally entered the refugee camps there. At the end of the film, the former vice president, who has succeeded the president, apologized to the people in the temporary State Council reformed by the embassy, ​​admitting that the policy he pursued was wrong, and said that the government will completely repent from now on.

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