The Day After Tommorow- Impact on Ecology
The Day After Tomorrow
The storyline of day after tomorrow depicts a paleoclimatologist named Jack Hall in Antarctica, he discovers that a huge ice sheet has been sheared off. But what he did not know is that this event would trigger a massive climate shift that would affect the world population. Meanwhile, his son, Sam was with friends in New York to attend an event. There they discover that it has been raining non-stop for the past 3 weeks, and after a series of weather related disasters that occurred over the world. Everybody soon realizes that the world is going to enter a new ice age, as the rest of the world population tries to evacuate to the warm climates of the south. Jack makes a daring attempt to rescue his son and his friends who are stuck in New York, who have to survive not only a massive wave, but freezing cold temperatures that could possibly kill them.
The movie argues vehemently that we need to combat global warming as quickly as possible to avoid the apocalyptic consequences on display in the film. But the film conveys this message in ways that many find so hyperbolized it becomes nearly laughable, because in the story, consequences some scientists argue might result from global warming arise almost instantaneously rather than over the course of decades or even centuries.
Critiques of The Day After Tomorrow point to its exaggerated claims regarding global warming not as a way to highlight the film’s environmental ideologies but to highlight one of its biggest weaknesses. In fact, the environmental message is all but lost because it rests on such a poor interpretation of climatology. Instead, critics valorize the film’s spectacular effects and faithful execution of the eco-disaster formula. A surface reading of the environmental politics on display in the film, then, deconstructs the film’s environmental leanings.
For example, in an IMDB review of The Day After Tomorrow, Roger Ebert calls the film “silly” but “scary” and enjoys the adherence
The storyline of day after tomorrow depicts a paleoclimatologist named Jack Hall in Antarctica, he discovers that a huge ice sheet has been sheared off. But what he did not know is that this event would trigger a massive climate shift that would affect the world population. Meanwhile, his son, Sam was with friends in New York to attend an event. There they discover that it has been raining non-stop for the past 3 weeks, and after a series of weather related disasters that occurred over the world. Everybody soon realizes that the world is going to enter a new ice age, as the rest of the world population tries to evacuate to the warm climates of the south. Jack makes a daring attempt to rescue his son and his friends who are stuck in New York, who have to survive not only a massive wave, but freezing cold temperatures that could possibly kill them.
The movie argues vehemently that we need to combat global warming as quickly as possible to avoid the apocalyptic consequences on display in the film. But the film conveys this message in ways that many find so hyperbolized it becomes nearly laughable, because in the story, consequences some scientists argue might result from global warming arise almost instantaneously rather than over the course of decades or even centuries.
Critiques of The Day After Tomorrow point to its exaggerated claims regarding global warming not as a way to highlight the film’s environmental ideologies but to highlight one of its biggest weaknesses. In fact, the environmental message is all but lost because it rests on such a poor interpretation of climatology. Instead, critics valorize the film’s spectacular effects and faithful execution of the eco-disaster formula. A surface reading of the environmental politics on display in the film, then, deconstructs the film’s environmental leanings.
For example, in an IMDB review of The Day After Tomorrow, Roger Ebert calls the film “silly” but “scary” and enjoys the adherence