The Day After Tomorrow

Enviornment

In this movie clip of “The Day After Tomorrow” it explains the environmental affects that we are going to be presented with in the future if we as a population do not start moving in the right direction. Right now we are hurting the environment and we are destroying it instead of helping it. We are destroying the environment and we are destroying the habitat for our animals such as the polar bear. Global warming is a very big problem, the Earth is getting warmer each year but it is also getting much colder as we seen last winter with all of the snow we had. I believe that we had record amounts of snow fall last winter. The polar bears cannot live in the warm weather; they need the cold to survive. Their ice caps are melting and therefore they are having trouble getting food and they are huge creatures that can’t last in a warm environment. The polar bears depend on us to take care of the Earth. It is like a network if one piece of the network goes down then everything is going to slowly deteriorate and that is what we are experiencing now, slowly but surely. My personal response to this movie clip is that we as a population have to make the right decisions now before it is too late. We need to stop relying on everyone else and do it ourselves. If everybody believes that somebody else will do the job then nothing will get done. We need to change our ways and our habits, for us, for our children, for our children’s children and for the animals because everything relies on each other to survive and we need to hold up our end.   

            The purpose of this clip is to show the environmental affects that we are harming the Earth with such as global warming and pollution. If we keep this up then the clip shows what life could be like for us in the future, we are going to be destroyed. There will be rain for days, tsunamis, cities would be flooded, the world would be in chaos, there would be tornadoes and hurricanes and the world would be a complete disaster in the future for us at this rate so we need to change the way we are living. The specific techniques that were used to achieve this purpose was images of what could happen to us in the future, these images are meant to scare us in hopes that we as a population would get our act together and stop living the way that we are living. Also at the end of the clip it says “Where will you be the day after tomorrow?” This is meant for us to question where we will be. Will we be here still? Or will it be too late? This also brings fear in your eyes because you realize that what we are doing now is going to affect us greatly in the future. The overall effect of this work is to show that we need to clean up our act before it is too late, not just for us but for future generations and animals.

            In the movie clip of “The Day After Tomorrow” the word human is presented to us as a person who is doing what needs to be done in their society in order to keep it going. They are not slacking; they are doing their everyday work trying to better the society. But in this movie clip I believe that they are portraying the human race as lazy because we are not doing our job to protect our planet. We are being lazy and we are trying to rely on everybody else to help the planet instead of doing it ourselves. So I believe that the movie is portraying us as being “inhumane” because we are doing more harm to our planet than actually helping our planet.

            Our depictions of the future are scary because we do not actually know what is going to happen in the future, but everybody has their guesses. Everybody’s guesses always project the worst for us, but what if the future is going to be great? What if the future ends up being the best time of our lives? Our depictions of the future reveal that in the present we have to do more things in order for us to be around in the future. We need to all recycle, practice good habits, make good decisions, help each other, rely on each other and use each other as a tool in order to help the planet before it is too late.

            The language and the images in this movie clip are scary because it makes everybody wonder if this is what life in the future could really look like. These images portray the future as a bad place because we are not helping the earth right now, we are actually destroying it.