Film Festival Write Up

The four films we watched were all on global warming. Two were feature films and two were documentaries. They ranged from the year 1989 to the year 2006. They span over a decade of warming earth, providing different points of view and different scenarios with different consequences. Each film was about the causes and the effects of global warming on our home planet.
One of the films that we watched was Water World. Kevin Costner and Denis Hooper starred in this movie. It was about a world of tomorrow where the whole entire earth is consumed by water. The polar ice caps have melted and flooded all but a small piece of land. Humans, in this world of tomorrow, have even started evolving back to our original state; forming gills and webbed feet. This film displays a worse case scenario of the future. It illustrates what will happen if we do not change our current ways of being.
Another film we watched was Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth." This movie was a documentary on the effects on our earth because of global warming. The melting of glaciers, the extreme weather, and melting polar icecaps are a few of the consequences. The film shows Al’s whole entire slide show. It also chronicles his tour of the country giving his slide show. I thought the movie was a great wake up call to the world. If you doubt the science behind global warming, this movie will help you believe. It helps show what we will face if we do not drastically change our way of living today, and helps let you know how to help by giving you ideas about small every day things that can help reduce your greenhouse emmisions. There was doubt in my mind and in the minds of some of my class mates about how AL Gore lives his life. He flies private plaes, he drives and SUV, and he does many other things that causes doubt in his opinions on gloabal warming.
The other fictional depecton of the future we watched was "The Day After Tomorrow". This movie was set in the near future, where the effects of global warming were a relatively fast, and an almost instantanious ice age. The causes of the ice age were directly related to the pollution of Earth by mankind. An ecologist, in the movie, that works for the government forewarns the leaders of ours and other countries of the dangersand and consepuences of the impending global warming; but they do not listen to him. Very many of these scenarios are very real today; both political and environmental.
The second documentary we watched was "After the Warming." This was a documentary made in the nineteen eighties. It came from the perspective of a man from the future. The film go through the habits of modern day man and what his effects are on the enviroment around him. The future man talks about the disasters of his day; and how they are due to the decisions of people in our modern times. This movie was not particularly exiting. Yet provided important information in a way that anyone could understand. It predicted the consequences of tomarrow, and most of the things they have predicted have come true.
All four films we watched were interasting. We got to see two different styles of telling a story; a documentry and a feature film. "The Day After Tomarrow", "An Inconveinent Truth", "After the Warming", and "Water World" were all movies either portraying a future affected by our decions today, or showing the problems we are causing and how we can fix them later. Hopefully the world will soon take notice what is wrong and we can start working on the problems that we have created. And as soon as the world can work on something like global warming together, on that grand of a scale, then we can also start working on other global problems. We will then truly be a global community.