2012 :- End of the world

2012 is a story woven around "mayan prediction". For people who haven’t got the time or chance read/google on the "mayan prophecy" let me quickly give you an overview. It says that some series of unfortunate and uncontrollable natural catastrophes will occur in the year December 2012 to be precise, which will annihilate life on earth. However there are more contradictions than proofs in support of this belief.

Even after knowing the chances of this theory’s occurrence (one in million or rather none!!!!!!!) I went to see the movie that too sacrificing my lovely sleep because it was a late night show on Friday. Actually me and my fiance was smitten by a bug long time back named “watch every movie”. We never wait for the reviews because irrespective of rating, good or bad, we will still go and watch the movie anyway.

Coming back to the movie 2012, this is a roller coaster ride of all kind of natural calamities starting from earthquake, tsunamis, volcanoes etc and all kind of emotions ranging from romance, anger, struggle, betrayal, loss, grief and the list goes on. And amidst all this chaos there is a motley group of people averting, ducking and cheating these horrific and disastrous situations and fighting to stay alive. Their fight is not against nature because it is anyway beyond our scope but to somehow save their lives and keeping their hopes alive.

The director seems to have made many assumptions to maintain the flow. First being that the calamities will take place sequentially one at a time and not parallely. Secondly, that nothing can win over the collective power of our intelligence. As it is shown that all the possible forms of furies put together , could not wipe out our race from earth. In other words a blatant attempt to reinforce the rosy belief that human mind is superior than nature. Which actually shows how overconfident or should I say hopelessly hopeful humans become sometimes. The script also is no exception as in the end a fistful people survive these disasters and the habitable conditions on earth is also maintained. Generalized conclusion:- A film with “happy ending” is what audiences want across boundaries, be it Hollywood, bollywood, tollywood for that matter any wood!!!!!!!! So ground rule is to end the film on a happy note even if it defies logic and common sense.

Strangely despite of many loopholes the movie does succeed to make an impact. It was truly terrifying to see brilliant architectural monuments collapsing and falling in an endless abyss within the deep layers of mother earth. Equally shocking to watch continents getting engulfed by mammoth sky-high waves within seconds and thus washed out of our world map completely. Fierce Volcanoes, erupting infinite volumes of fire and charring everything in reach beyond recognition.

Even with a poor storyline and characterization the film manages to create a feeling of dread successfully. By the end of it I indeed felt as if we all are slowly inching towards a “doomsday” which might not be in 2012 but certainly sometime soon. For this entire experience accolade should be given to the brilliant graphics and special effect team.

On a second thought let us now consider for a few minutes that the unfortunate day is actually in 2012. In that case we all should start preparing a “to do” list and start taking action already. Shouldn’t we? I firmly believe that our world would be a much better place now if somehow the mayan theory is proved to be true. I can already see all of us making efforts, in spite of the little time, to replace hatred by love, war by peace, inequality by equality, cruelty by kindness, coldness with compassion, disagreement by harmony and all the sins by virtue. Money, power, position, religion, caste, creed, community, color, borderlines will cease to hold any value. All of us will be “alive” in true sense instead of just breathing which we nowadays falsely assume as living. Imagine how serene, beautiful and welcoming this same earth will become. How fulfilling each day of our limited life will be!!!! This theory of “judgment day” might scare our wits out but also has a brighter side to it. Right people?