Epiphany

Rating: 10/10 (28 May 2004)

You can read my posts earlier this week about the movie.
I was skeptical, to say it the least.

I'm happy to say I was completely wrong.
Emmerich have learned a LOT since id4, and he must have had something similar to an epiphany. I loved the story from start to finish. We are presented head-on to the cataclysmic, totally unpredictable results of global warming. Los Angeles is destroyed by supertornados, and it's just getting worse from there.
The special effects are absolutely stunning, and very necessary for the story, but the human element is never forgotten, and it is through them we experience the horror, a horror of humanity's own making.
The current US administration is fiercely attacked, as they should be. I have always seen Emmerich as a right-wing/conservative, but if he was, he has clearly had a change of heart.
My belief is that there will be no ice age, that it will «just» get warmer, a lot warmer, that the ocean will rise dramatically (about seventy meters/yards) when all ice on the globe melts, that we'll have an increase in the number and strength of storms, and that civilization will be completely destroyed, not just partially.
But still, this is a great story, an important story that I hope will provoke debate all over the world.
It will be a surprise if it is an economic success, since it's dealing with a very serious subject in a serious manner. We can only hope.
It will be typical if the rather stupid id4 will be Emmerich's most successful movie.
The right wing press and paid posters are gearing up. It's amazing how afraid they are of this movie, of any story, calling a spade a spade. We see it here, there and everywhere.
Good. The movie has them running scared, scared that a majority will realize the truth and act accordingly.
Very good.
Another quality (of many) in the film's favor