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He does it again! Roland Emmerich sparks every emotion in his new movie, The Day After Tomorrow. This movie is thrilling and heart wrenching. Roland also sparked our imagination and emotions with some of his other films, such as Independence Day, Godzilla, and The Patriot. We never know what to expect from a film that is directed by this man. But he exceeded our expectations in his new film, The Day After Tomorrow.
In this movie Jack Hull, played by Denis Quaid, is a climantoligist who realizes global warming is taking place. The global warming triggers an onset of a new ice age and will change the world as we know it. Tornadoes flatten Los Angeles, a tidal wave engulfs New York, and the entire Northern Hemisphere begins to freeze solid.
Although this movie is a “thrill ride” (Joel Siegel, Good Morning America) it has many underlying meanings. The director wanted us to think about everything we do today and how it will affect us in the future. One thing is pollution, and how we need to watch how we pollute our world today. Also, we use so many natural resources from our world without putting anything back and if we don’t start it will come back to get us. All the meanings in this movie in an underlying way say that this type of catastrophe can be prevented if we change our ways now. It also tries to show us that even though we can control a lot of things we still can not control or foresee the weather.
This movie is done brilliantly, with exceptional special effects that seem so real.