2012

The movie - 2012
Brief Intro
According to the Mayan calendar, the world will come to an end on December 21, 2012. Alarmingly, it seems that there have been usually severe storms on the surface of the sun, which are having a grave effect on earth. By 2010, the world's top scientists have confirmed that the world would come to an end. As it reaches the year 2012, signs of impending doom have been steadily accumulating and fissures rapidly appeared in the earth. We are then introduced to Jackson Curtis(John Cusack)who joins the race with his family to ensure that humankind is not completely wiped out. While they attempt to escape the catastrophic natural disasters they encounter several nerve-wrecking dangers where they almost died. Eventually, they managed to board the ship and survived, however the world had been totally destroyed and most land was submerged in water, the remaining survivors had to start from scratch. Although like any other disaster movies which depict a happy ending for the protagonist, its special effects, realistic natural disasters and non-stop thrill makes it a must watch. Besides the effects, the movie shows that human beings can sometimes be selfish in the face if danger and most who managed to get the tickets for the ship were the rich (those people who constructed the ships didn’t get tickets either), this depicts typical human personalities and nicely links the movie to the audience.

Will 2012 come true?

After watching the movie, I wondered if it would really happen in the real world. Human activity had polluted and ruined the environment, this was one of the causes of the several catastrophes that occurred in the movie. Recently, several countries throughout the globe has met with strange weather conditions. Several countries recorded extreme temperatures both high and low for the first time ever. Some countries encountered heavy downpours which led to flooding (almost 80% of its state was flooded) while others met with hail (it had never been so violent before), the last time such extreme weather conditions occurred was more than a century ago. In the year 2010 of the movie, several countries were hit with severe life threatening weather conditions that had never happened before. Even in Singapore, the temperature is so high and almost every day the sweltering heat suffocates me, this was the first time I had ever felt this way. Is it possible that 2012 would come true? In my opinion it is actually possible, human activity has already damaged the earth severely, if we don’t put spare a thought for the Earth we are living on, one day it may take revenge.