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Reading “Script”

2012 Movie

1. “the guy’s an actor, he’s reading a script! when they tell you not to panic, that’s when you run!”
2. “The moment when we stop fighting for each other, that’s when we lose our humanity”
3. “whoah, big plane!. It’s Russian”
4. “anybody who tries to talk is not only the enemy of the state, but enemy of humanity”

I’m not a script- freak, but I am compelled to express my liking to good movie scripts. Apart from the above, there are many other lines from this movie that caught me. However, what struck me most is the  no. 2 script above. I think I ever heard the same quote or something similar to it in other movies – Emily Rose or Transformers. Could it be coincidence, or there’s a hidden message or a kind of code in that line? who knows. Or probably I might have heard wrong.

Sitting thru the movie which runs for 158 minutes, I notice religious groups performing their prayers except for one, the Jews / Judaism. Neither do I see any scene of them praying or their religious building destroyed. Do they purposely excluded it? Hm, I wonder. Also, what’s up with Russia/n? From the Billionaire (Yuri), the Pilot, the Prime Minister, the big plane…to show that Russian economy will recover fully in 2012? Enlighten me.

Right after the show, a friend asked if this is really about ‘the-end-of-world’. “I think it’s just like another disaster movies”, she opines. I second that opinion. Especially on the “Ark”, which reminds me of the comedy Evan Almighty, while the 2012 is like the serious version of it (the biblical Noah’s Ark story) – the flood, the destruction, and building the Ark to save humanity and animal.

Overall, it’s a good movie. The disasters (earthquake, volcano, tsunami) effect is impressive, though I don’t really enjoy the too-much-computer-effect scene when Jackson runs away as volcano explodes, and he impossibly survives the quakes and the fireballs. That’s too unreal.

Well, we won’t know when is the end of the world. But we are taught to remember and prepare for death. The Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.) said, “Remember death very often, so that it may purify you from sins and decrease attachment to a world which is not an introduction to the betterment of the spirit.” (http://bit.ly/4vDBmX). One of the good values from the movie in relation to this, is the part where family members grew in love & appreciation, and ask for forgiveness of each other. Don’t wait until it’s too late. Say and share your love to your family & loved ones, and treasure them.