Yesterday I decided to re-watch ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ from 2004, a movie that deals with some unexpected outcomes of global warming. It’s an apocalyptic-theme movie and I contemplated how it complements the present situation in the world today.

Starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Emmy Rossum among others, it was a big-budget movie with a lot of cool special effects. It’s about the sudden oncoming of the next Ice Age that is induced by global warming and the effect it has on the sea currents. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the Northern Hemisphere starts to freeze and the wave of cold coming from the north kills everything in its way. One of the few persons who are aware of what is going on decides to go to New York to save his son, believing that the city will freeze and kill anyone unprotected inside. So, it’s sort of a personal-driven drama set in the Earth’s environmental collapse.

There were some cool things about this show that I really liked. For one, it was refreshing to see how population migration suddenly changed. So people living up north, many of whom I have no doubt were once so anti-immigration, have no other way to survive but to move down south of the border. That table-turning scenario I found hilarious and perfectly fitting with my interpretation of ‘karma’.

Also, unlike some Earth catastrophe-type movies like Armageddon, I found I enjoy watching this flick for the second time. There is a lot of scientific foundation for this scenario, and thus, the facts cannot be just ignored and dismissed just because a few individuals might not benefit from it. Yet, I fully understand that the possibility of the events in the movie actually happening might be minimal, especially at the speed portrayed in the show. But it still is highly probable that the Earth climate will change drastically. And the full effects of that we do not know yet. And that is why this makes such an interesting show. It’s always that gnawing question, what if, what if it really gets that bad?

In that sense, this movie was worth my time, just to make me consider it all and ponder of the possibility of what might actually happen if Great Plains are all frozen and we lose the ability to produce enough food to feed us.

Also, it was just cool to see the effects of extreme sub-zero temperatures on the environment and New York City. I never cared for winter and cold that much and, in times like this, I can watch this show and wonder, at least, we do not have it this bad. Whatever corona-virus does, it could always be worse, so better enjoy this environment right now and appreciate it for all that it gives us.

I really wanted to watch something that can lift me up, hoping to see how human spirits can overcome some amazing difficulties and how fighting for your family knows no fear and limits. In that sense, plus many more, this movie delivered it perfectly.