Revetting to the core
By Minakshi Rao
When Planet Earth gets an expiry date, the goings-on are expected to be on a scary crescendo and they are for most part of this latest doomsday digitalia.
As doomsday flicks go, 2012 from Roland Emmerich who has also directed the equally stunning The Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day and Godzilla, is pegged on an obnoxiously high budget, breath-taking annihilation of the world shots, taut sequences of humanity going down and, of course, the greatness of the US President, who incidentally happens to be black, committed and one of the millions to stay back and slide into the rising sea waters along with the entire city of New York.
The awesome quotient of 2012, lies in the director’s larger than life special effects which keep you glued — and in fear — of tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanoes, all of which unite to create a doomsday feature so apparently real that you are even scared to take the escalator down the highrise cinema hall after the film is over.
The other big moment of the film comes from the imminence of Judgement Day. Based on the much-touted Mayan calendar which ends on December 21, 2012, the film tells you how all of us would be going under the swirling waters and rising Earth’s angry crust in a matter of just three years! It gives you the extra heebie-jeebies, especially when you see what happens to whether it is Indians (the entire subcontinent gets gobbled up by the monster tsunami), or Americans (volcanoes and sea surging in).
Such has been the power of this dramatic movie that even NASA has officially stepped in to dispel the doomsday fears saying it has data to prove that humanity is safe for at least one billion years! Needless to say, 2012 is revetting stuff put more than revettingly.
Courtesy: The Pioneer
