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【文章內容簡介】 d lives but the movie zeroes in on only a few people, of course they survive, although some supporting characters may have to be sacrificed. What39。s amusing in movies like The Day After Tomorrow is th e way the screenplay veers from the annihilation of subcontinents to whether Sam should tell Laura he loves her. The movie stars Dennis Quaid as the paleoclimatologist Jack Hall, whose puter models predict that global warming will lead to a new ice age. He issues a warning at a New Delhi conference, but is sarcastically dismissed by the American vice president (Kenh Welsh), who the movie doesn39。t even try to pretend doesn39。t look just like Dick Cheney. Our economy is every bit as fragile as the environment, the vice president says, dismissing Jack39。s sensational claims. Before long, however, it is snowing in India, and hailstones the side of softballs are ripping into Tokyo. Birds, which are always wise in matters of global disaster, fly south doubletime. Turbulence tears airplanes from the sky. The president (Perry King) learns the FAA wants to ground all flights and asks the vice president, What do you think we should do? Meanwhile, young Sam Hall (Jake Gyllenhaal) goes to New York with an academic decathlon team, which includes Laura (Emmy Rossum of Mystic River) and Brian (Arjay Smith). They39。re stranded there. Ominous portents abound and Jack finally gets his message through to the administration (This time, says a friend within the White House, it will be different. You39。ve got to brief the president directly.) Jack draws a slash across a map of the United States, and writes off everybody north of it. He issues a warning that supercooled air will kill anybody exposed to it, advises those in its path to stay inside, and then ... well, then he sets off to walk from Washington to New York to get to his son. Two of his buddies, also veterans of Arctic treks, e along. We are wondering: (a) why walk to New York when his expertise is desperately needed to save millions? (b) won39。t his son be either dead or alive whether or not he makes the trek? And—— (c) how quickly can you walk from Washington to New York over ice sheets and through a howling blizzard? As nearly as I can calculate, this movie believes it can be done in two nights and most of three days. Oh, I fot。 they drive part of the way, on highways that are gridlocked and buried in snow, except for where they39。re driving. How they get gas is not discussed in any detail. As for the answer to (a), anyone familiar with the formula will know it is because he Feels Guilty About Neglecting His Son by spending all that time being a paleoclimatologist. It took him a lot of that time just to spell it. So, OK, the human subplots are nonsense all except for the quiet scenes anchored by Ian Holm, as a sad, wise Scottish meteorologist. Just like Peter O39。Toole in Troy, Holm proves that a gifted Britishtrained actor can walk into almost any scene and make it seem like it means something. 英文影評 6 / 19 Quaid and Gyllenhaal and the small band of New York survivors do what can be done with impossible dialogue in an unlikely situation. And Dr. Lucy Hall (Sela Ward), Jack39。s wife and Sam39。s mother, struggles nobly in her subplot, which involves the little cancer patient named Peter. She stays by his side after the hospital is evacuated, calling for an ambulance, which we think is a tad optimistic, since Manhattan has been flooded up to about the eighth floor, the water has frozen, and it39。s snowing. But does the ambulance arrive? Here39。s another one for you: Remember those wolves that escaped from the zoo? Think we39。ll see them again? Of the science in this movie I have no opinion. I am sure global warming is real, and I regret that the Bush administration rejected the Kyoto Treaty, but I doubt that the cataclysm, if it es, will e like this. It makes for a fun movie, though. Especially the parts where Americans bee illegal immigrants in Mexico, and the vice president addresses the world via the Weather Channel. The Day After Tomorrow is ridiculous, yes, but sublimely ridiculous and the special effects are stupendous. 2020 英文影評 (2020) The world is ending in a matter of hours, yet justice and humanity don’t perate through the brainshells of politicians. In order to save their own lives, the government officials keep the secret from the rest of human kind and also lets the man whose knowledge saves their lives die. This is the premise of 2020. But if the viewer is a Tibetan or someone who is aware of the Tibetan culture and the sensitivities of Tibetan issue, one could feel that the justice and humanity are not occurred in the director’s thought either. There is a scene long enough to mention that takes place in Tibet. In fact the last human beings die there and the new seed of the future human race starts at the neck of Mount Everest, “The People’s Republic of China” the movie calls it. Perhaps what no movie reviewer noticed or saw the importance of mentioning is that the prophetic fictitious 英文影評 7 / 19 story of the movie not only makes a statement that Tibet is pletely a part of China, but also it totally misrepresents the core culture of Tibetan people. A Tibetan woman killing animals in Tibet is taboo, it never happened except during the Cultural Revolution when some women were forced to do so. Women killing chickens in the Chinese market is an everyday event, but a Tibetan woman killing a CHICKEN reflects the director’s cultural ignorance and it makes the movie even more ridiculous. And in real life ethically speaking, Mr. Emmerich failed to hire Tibetan actors who can speak their own language. All the actors who play Tibetan characters are Chinese very poorly pretending to be Tibetans. Their Tibetan is hundred times worse than Zhang Yi’s memorized English or Leonardo DiCaprio’s Swahili (well I