Originally posted 2018. 11. 24
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The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science-fiction disaster film co-written, directed, and produced by Roland Emmerich and starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ian Holm, Emmy Rossum, and Sela Ward. The movie is based on the book The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber.
All about this Movie!
The movie begins as Jack Hall, an American paleoclimatologist, and his colleagues Frank Harris and Jason Evans, drills for ice-core samples in the Larsen Ice Shelf. He warns about global warming at a UN conference in New Delhi, but the United States Vice President dismisses it.
Jack teams along with Professor Terry Rapson, an oceanographer, and Janet Tokada, a Nasa meteorologist, to build a forecast model based on Jack’s research after proving his concerns on climate shift was correct.
Unexpected typhoons, hurricanes, heavy rain, thunderstorms, and hails occur all across the world. The storms pull frozen air from the upper troposphere into the center. Temperatures drop below 100 degrees Celsius. Meanwhile, the weather worsens across the world; Tokyo is struck by a giant hail storm, sea levels in Nova Scotia rise 7 meters within seconds, and Los Angeles is devastated by a tornado.
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The weather conditions get increasingly severe and eventually, the United States of America is hit by a huge tsunami and gets heavily damaged. A massive storm surge floods Manhattan, and this causes
To make things worse, typhoons and hurricanes go on for over a month, and the increased amount of clouds blot out the sun completely.
This phenomena goes on all over the world, resulting in a sharp decrease in temperature, and the Ice Age begins again.
Jack Hall suggests that the southern states of America should be evacuated to Mexico, since the northern half are doomed to be hit by the superstorm.
Jack, Jason, and Frank make their way to New York. In Pennsylvania, Frank sacrifices himself by cutting his rope to prevent his friends from falling through the skylight of a mall.
Jack’s son Sam, and his friends Brian Parks and Laura Chapman decides to stay at a library with a few survivors who followed Sam’s advice to stay put in the library. They burn books to stay warm as the temperature drops.
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Meanwhile, Jack and Jason continue proceeding towards New York when they find the group of people who left the library frozen to death. Days later, the superstorms dissipate, and Jack and Jason are able to find Sam’s group alive.
Jack and Sam’s group are rescued up in Manhattan along with many other survivors. The movie ends as astronauts on the International Space Station look down in shock at the transformed surface of planet Earth.
My thoughts!
The Day After Tomorrow depicts catastrophic climate effects following the disruption of the North Atlantic Ocean circulation in a series of extreme weather events that lead to a new Ice Age,
Although the effects of global warming depicted in the film were extreme, it suggests a series of possible disasters that is very likely to happen in the near future.
The scene where Tokyo gets hit by hailstorms, with hails the size of huge rocks shocked me the most.
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