“2012”

Several had asked me if to watch this movie with them, but I declined them all. I thought that this movie was just kinda’ dumb, just like the movie title ‘2012’. (Who could have predicted that the world is REALLY going to end on the year 2012??) I mean, if we only know better, only GOD knows when. Anyways, I eventually ended up watching the movie with my friends and I must say I was really surprised how I ended up liking this movie!

The story started when an American geologist Adrian travels to India to meet his friend, who has discovered that neutrinos from a massive solar flare have penetrated the Earth and are causing the temperature of its core to increase rapidly. Adrian returns to Washington D.C. to inform someone at the White House (you can say someone who is in-charge of these stuffs) that they say and predicted that this will instigate a chain of events that will bring about the end of the world. Then story goes at the 36th G8 summit in 2010, other heads of state and heads of government are made aware of the situation. They collaborate to begin a secret project intended to ensure the continuity of human life, strategically choosing 400,000 people for admission on a series of gigantic arks to be constructed in the Himalayas. To help fund the venture, additional individuals are allowed to purchase tickets for one billion euros apiece. (Would you believe that??)

Anyways, it was when John Cusack came in and knew that something is going on, going wrong! It was when he took his two kids on a camping trip to Yellowstone National Park, where they meet Charlie, a radio show host and conspiracy theorist. Charlie supports a theory that suggests the Mayans predicted the world would come to an end in 2012, and claims he has knowledge of the ark project and possesses a map of the arks' location. Cusack went suspicious when something happened overnight leading to cracks (just like earth crusts) and rents a private plane to rescue his family. It was when they started their escape, then how the families stick up together, not wanting to let go no matter what, it touched my heart how they hold on tight, not giving in to disappointments, but instead holding on even to that smallest part of hope that they have.