The sky is falling, the earth is shaking, the waves are turbulent, the earth is shaking... When these adjectives are not enough to describe a disaster, it is undoubtedly the end of the world.
For a disaster film with "many people" and Made In USA, we have reason to believe that this "doomsday prophecy" will definitely be able to seize the opportunity and sweep the world with its unstoppable impact. As for Maya's five prophecies, the fifth solar season on December 21, 2012, it is estimated that no one cares.
Just like the much-anticipated "Pearl Harbor", only the classic 20 minutes are left, the emotional drama is always incomparable with the bombing created by hundreds of millions of dollars. If you see the crust being torn apart in "2012", you can only feel fear instead of secretly cheering, then you really don't understand what "watching a movie" is. The madman in the movie with an antenna attached to "live broadcast", you can think that he is insane, but at least he is addicted to his own play. In other words, that's the beauty of the movie. Critics can pick on "2012" for its many illogicalities and many clichés, but at least it entertains audiences.
Whether a disaster movie is enjoyable or not depends largely on whether the destruction is strong enough. It is gratifying that the Statue of Liberty did not suffer this time. Although she had suffered many hardships at the end of the world, although she could not escape the disaster, at least she died in a corner that no one noticed. But the statue of Jesus in Rio de Janeiro fell before the eyes of the people of the world, the Eiffel Tower was hit by a crappy pilot, and Michelangelo's "Genesis" on the ceiling of the Sistine Cathedral was also in a tragic form. A holy curtain call for the whole of Italy. At this moment we finally realize that this doomsday disaster does not belong to any one country, it is aimed at all mankind. Industry, culture, civilization, history, nationality, race, language, writing... all face zero and come back again. Of course, if given the chance.
When I saw that the end of the day was coming, and the helicopter was carrying elephants, giraffes and other animals to the ark, I suddenly felt that the world belonged to them from beginning to end, and they were the reason why the earth became the earth. When I was a child, I read the story of Noah's Ark in the Bible: Human beings are corrupted before God, and the earth is full of violence. God will then destroy them all and start all over again. He asked the kind Noah to build a huge ark and take his wife and children to escape disaster. The door of the ark should be opened on the side, divided into upper, middle and lower floors. For all clean animals, seven males and seven females; for unclean animals, one male and one female; for birds according to their species, one male and one female... They must be brought into the ark to preserve their lives. Seven days later, God caused a flood and the world was destroyed. Only people and animals in Noah's Ark survived and thrived. I always felt that it was not Noah that God wanted to save, but a bunch of animals. Human ancestors survived because of their mission to care for them.
What "2012" wants to save is not the family, but hope. I know that writing like this is very impersonal, and the sensational things are all a routine, always using the sacrifice of others to set off the preciousness of life. But this is the charm of the movie, it makes us believe that man is better than the sky, and that even if the earth is covered by the ocean, that blue sky is the hope of rebuilding our home tomorrow.
Finally, it is worth mentioning that many people think that "the responsibility of saving the world is handed over to China" is actually pure wishful thinking. People clearly stated that "only China has the ability to complete such a huge shipbuilding project within a limited time". This 9.6 million square kilometers of land is also doomed, thanks to the wisdom and labor of the people, and it is still the sponsorship of those businessmen. In the end, it is the third-rate novelist whose work has only sold 500 copies. His book will continue in the next century as the civilization of the last century. This is an American film, a game of salvation played by Americans. We're not being put on the savior's throne by this American movie, are we?
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