2012 Review

So I don't do many movie reviews. I suppose I'll start a habit with myself.

Yes this movie is cliche, yes it has been done before, yes the world has ended time and time again, yes John Cusack is in a couple of world ending films (wonders if he got the memo...) but i still enjoyed this. Why?

Well visually this movie was attractive. It'll only get better and better each year we survive the apocalypse so whee for CGI. I like the viewpoint of it coming from a tunnel vision writer (cuz i am) and like all end of the world movies, it makes you realize how limited everything is, and how temporary everything is. The fleeting moment when the father calls his son, who married a japanese woman and moved to Japan, regardless of that they didn't talk, was just wow. Everything is THAT fleeting.

Damn you musical score! I'm a sucker for good scores and whomever wrote this was brilliant. This particular movie is just the visualization of how i think life would be if it all ended. how we would act as humans... that fact saddens me.

This movie makes me think about the religious people who do pray. The worst scene in my opinion was when the crack appears at the Sistine Chapel. Totally predictable. Symbolic yes, cliche of course! anyways the people who prayed at the Chapel were earnestly doing it and then the roof crumbles and everyone scatters. That thought upsets me. It is stated with a few words that Jesus said to Peter, "You who have little faith" Matthew 14:29-31 when the going gets tough, do we bear it out in faith, or do we run like chickens without their heads.

The movie was very human, in every idea of our shortcomings. When humanity is pitted against each other for survivability? yes that is when we fail. relational towards how we are in everyday life. will I help my friend get a job, when I'm interview for the same position? no. survival of the fittest. we are too busy clambering over each other to reach for something, that is meaningless. kicking, screaming, scratching, pushing, for a taste of the apple... an apple that isn't there.

blah late to a party and i gotta get my hair all did! ciao!