Thursday, September 23, 2010
2012 and Our Facination with the Unknown
2012 is one of the latest movies we have that talks about disasters and I guess this draws people in from the simple fact that we all have some sort of fear of the unknown. We want to know how characters survive the end of the world, how they overcome disasters happening to them and maybe even use their actions as a method - a reminder - for us to survive, in the event that a tragedy as depicted in the film actually happens.
Also, 2012 relates to people a lot simply because the year 2012 is merely two years from now and I think I can safely say that we all want to know if the end of the world will really come in two years time. Then, there is also the wordings that appear at the start of the trailer mentioning how "the Mayan calendar predicted it" which the film uses to further claim that it is indeed something that will happen.
On top of that, most people should be familiar with all the famous locations and landmarks that show up in the movie e.g. the Vatican, The Statue of Christ the Reedeemer in Rio, Times Square etc. and we all love to see the effects of disaster striking on these locations.
Facination with doomsday; with chaos, and life-threatening situations basically grabs people's attention.
- Syn Dee
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Good choice of an example of a primary source Syn Dee. Yes, indeed, especially with the use of famous/familiar locations, it helps to make the movie so much more "real" to us, because it's not just striking some unknown place out in the middle of nowhere -- these are cities we've been in, monuments that symbolize mankind's architectural achievements, the pride of mankind (do you see I'm making the implicit explicit here?). All of this false pride is now being literally shattered.
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