One of those times to send the harsh but real messages home on global warming.

Rating: 8/10 (21 June 2006)

This was one of those movies my father was kind of looking forward to watch when it first came out on the cable here. I know, being once a Geography student makes him aware of climate changes and all that in between.
For me, since once the class few years back had to do researches on each type of pollution that each group has chosen (my group was on water pollution), it's something which has really made me more aware about the state of the world we are living in. Thanks to our careless ignorance of the increasing global warming.
The movie centre around a climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) who has been giving lectures on the impending danger of a new ice age on planet Earth, and his son Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal) who was caught stranded in New York with his friends because of the ice age. But in the movie, who will care a hoot on what Jack is saying anyway? And in the case of Sam, no matter how much he and his friends tried to persuade those who were trapped in the same building as them about waiting for help to arrive to them because of the alarming decrease of the temperature, not all heeded his word.
Sometimes, it's all a matter of whether one wants to believe what others will say in desperate times. As it's often being told time and again that the truth is always stranger than fiction and the truth always hurts, this was one of those times which drove it home.
I know I heard so many about this movie before I saw it with my family on the cable then, but then maybe sometimes we need a little 'pushing' to remember that our Earth is very vulnerable nowadays. And no one can dare to mess with Mother Nature when she's angry.