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"The Day After Tomorrow"
Directed by Roland Emmerich
PG-13
2004
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We have to hand it to Hollywood this time--a very good movie. They even came up with a revolutionary solution that MIM did not think of. If the joint dictatorship of the oppressed nations over imperialism (JDPON) does not come about in time to stop global warming, it's still possible that "what goes around comes around." As the closing words of the movie point out, there are other ways to clean up the atmosphere. Sorry, Kanada, Iceland, England--those are the breaks. On the bright side, the Emmerich solution improves relations with Mexico. We have secretly obtained some excised script notes here that apparently did not make it into the movie. The Vice-President of the United $tates came from a mega-corporation, called "Hailabunchon" that operates in oil and puts the squeeze on all forward-thinking on energy. While in office, he steadfastly turned away all scientific advice on the causes of global warming, because too many corporate interests were at stake. When the president goes soft and starts giving government orders that affect the corporations' business, Hailabunchon cronies arrange to have him die and make it look natural. Then the Vice-President comes to power. Hailabunchon also paid off droves of scientists to cover up the effects of fossil-fuel dependency. Nonetheless, one heroic scientist working with some other people deemed lesser lights for making lesser money figured out that global warming was going to melt too much Antarctic ice. Unfortunately, our discontented but not discontented enough scientist and would-be hero joined a phony communist party working for the labor aristocracy. While he was at demonstrations chanting for higher welfare payments to the top richest 10% of people in the world and trying to move his own salary from the top 5% to the top 4% and getting "30 for 40" in the united $tates, a proletarian party organizing people hungry for change languished without his support. At a crucial rally of 1 million people, our would-be hero led the people off track and the JDPON had to delay coming to power, when the weather started changing. Our would-be hero was critical of mega-corporations and the Vice-President, but he channelled that into petty-bourgeois channels instead of realizing that the capitalist corruption of truth-production, distribution and implementation processes was more important than the white-collar class's economic demands. He knew somehow that the question of the status of scientists like himself was somehow at issue, but he never studied Marxism-Leninism-Maoism-MIM Thought. He had read a lot of books to get his earth science Ph.D. and now he was kind of tired of studying. When the Vice-President came to power, he made mea culpa for the previous disasters, only because he had invested in Mexican hotel chains first. The process of corrupt truth production started anew, from a base in Mexico when our earth scientist finally joined MIM. Better late than never. As far as the movie acting and scenes go, the point was to be overwhelming to the point where one has to be a bit cerebral. There's no hope in physical resistance. Even the people on the margin of survival do not have the scenes or acting of say a "Poseidon Adventure." The kid was either going to drown at the payphone or not, and it was not going to be glorious. We'd blame it on the actors, but it was like that in all the scenes. The nervous tension is not quite as high in this film as some others, simply because nature is too overwhelming in this film and the director chose to do scenes and acting that do not match up with some other disaster flicks. All in all, though, given the script, we think the choices are justified. Maybe they saved a few bucks too. Off hand, I can't think of a better disaster film, to which people could say that's not saying much, but really--it was very good.
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