2012

it is undeniable that 2012 is one of the best blockbuster movie in 2009! A movie inspired by Mayan prophecy about doomsday, 2012 definitely attracts a vast amount of audience! Spectacular special movie effects are splendid, with all those blasting and crashing scenes bursting throughout the whole movie. Tsunami, volcano eruptions, earthquakes and the other catastrophic disasters are beyond our imagination. It looks like the doomsday is really near, or is it?

I watched the movie in Sibu, and it is like a miracle for a Sibu theater filled with people, especially when the movie is played for 12 times in one day, before SPM! I meant it! Even though down the theater the pirated cds of 2012 are overflown, the theater is still full with people. From this we can see the great attraction of this movie! Everyone is like "Woa", stunned and "hahaha" (cause there are some funny scenes which i cant stop laughing, even though it is supposed to be a movie about disaster!)

That is the issue that i want to bring in, we treat it as another movie like Harry Potter without even realize that this could one day be all true! Every thing is like so fantastic and extravagant until we regard it as something like a fantasy rather than a revelation. What if the land breaks apart in the cinema right at the moment we watch it happen in the movie? What if earthquakes happen at the climax of the movie? What will we do? The problem is we are not taking it seriously. We do not prepare ourselves- we are unprepared to face such a devastating disaster.

What if we know there is a doomsday in the near future? What will we do? Will we act heroic like what the main characters do in the movie? Some of us will, some of us wont! Simple scenes from the real life can portray how human will act when they face the doomsday! The day when Sibu's boat sank and tens of people died, people around the scene rushed quickly just to take away the casualties' properties that the emergencies had found beneath the sea bed. When the great flood and hurricane struck US, raping cases and robberies kept happening in the stadium which acts as a temporary stronghold for the citizens whose residential area were struck by flood. During China's earthquake, some burglars were sneaking into the safety zone, pretending themselves to be first aiders, and stole away all the necessities. Robberies were everywhere; the robbers are holding weapons like parang and guns trying to creating havoc.

This is why the US government in the movie forbids the secret to be revealed. They don't want to create havoc or unnecessary anxiety among the citizens. "The economy will break apart! Riots will be everywhere... ..." This is what the movie lacks of- the true nature of human beings. When real disaster is around, they will first think about themselves. Raping cases increase because those people have a conception that "I haven't have sex yet, since i am going to die, why not just find a girl and fuck her off! it doesn't look like i am going to get caught by the police,be judged or something! Come on, its doomsday!" This, is the real world today! Not everyone believes in judgement day after the doomsday. Society will disintegrate if scientists prove 2012 to be true.

However, the movie conveys another message which is hope! What is hope exactly? "What is the chance for an ordinary man like the author of a only-500-copied-sold book to get into the ship?" The greatest hope is held by every people. The believers in Italy pray because they hold on hopes which is stated in the bible. The muslims also pray because they have faith in their religions. However, those non-believers, they do not have hope to hold on. Their faith lie within themselves, and that is tough! In order for you to have faith in yourself during doomsday, you need to possess some sorts of super powers or God-like power for you to survive! (And seriously, the plot in 2012 is way too coincident! Everything is like well-planned! In real life, it is not) No matter what, we need to always be optimistic and hold on what we believe in. There is always light of hope in our life.

There is the family touching part, about what we need to do to our precious one before everything is too late. It is like a cliche to me, but it is still important. We do not want to have a sense of regret after something regretting happens in our life? Like we can never have the chance to talk to somebody, or hear his or her voice. Appreciate what we have now, especially our family. They are gifted, as we can't really choose who is our family member. Say i love u to those you love, before everything is too late. Yes, when you think that "we could have more time", but in real life, you don't really have much left.

And that is the fun part of the movie- the struggle between light and darkness within human nature. Human, undeniably, is the most complicated living beings in Earth. It is human nature to love somebody, but it is also a human nature to be selfish. The love and hope represent light, while the selfishness represents darkness. Every selfish side can be observed through every characters portrayed in the movie, including president of the US (Barack Obama in 2012?) and even the chinese engineer in the movie. (Don't want to expose too much, copyright issue)

What will you do when doomsday arrives the next day? Will you let the darkness of your heart overwhelming your good nature? Or you will be inspired and let the light shines over your heart despite that you are deep in the darkest abyss?

2012, we really need to think what role we play, now and in the future.