Cast : John Cusack / Thandie Newton / Amanda Peet / Danny Glover / Chiwetel Ejiofor
Plot
2012
The film exploits the idea of a global doomsday event coinciding with
the end of the Mayan Long Count Calendar's current cycle on or around
December 21, 2012 (the northern hemisphere's winter
solstice).
Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) is a divorced father
who occasionally works as a limousine driver and a writer, while his
ex-wife Kate Curtis (Amanda Peet) and children live together with her
new boyfriend. In Guatemala reports start coming in of mass suicides
in the Mayan jungles of people attempting to avoid the impending
apocalypse.
The IHC (Institute for Human Continuity), a secret
organization, has realized the situation and begins constructing vast
arks beneath the Himalayan mountains designed to withstand most
natural disasters in order to save both humanity, significant
species, and the greatest treasures of mankind for when doomsday
finally happens.
There are arguments however about how and
when the governments of the world will alert their fellow citizens
and even discussions about how the remaining survivors will be
selected to survive Armageddon. When they discover that the global
cataclysm is happening much faster than expected, they must race to
these ships to save the human race before all is lost.
Meanwhile
on a day trip to Yellowstone with his two young children, Jackson
meets Charlie Frost, who hosts his own radio segment and blog about
his belief that the Mayans are correct about 2012. Over the coming
days vast cracks are found within the fault lines in California, and
despite the pleas from the government that everything is fine,
Jackson isn't convinced.
Hiring a private plane and gathering
crucial supplies he races to his ex-wife's L.A. home to save himself
and his family from the Earth's crust displacement occurring all
around them. After a long and dangerous race through the collapsing
streets of LA to get to Santa Monica Airport, Kate's new boyfriend
Gordon uses his pilot skills to get the family to safety as the
runway crumbles beneath them.
After they take off, they fly
dangerously through Los Angeles as the entire city crumbles into
oblivion around them. As they look back the entire cityscape of Los
Angeles has already started to crumble into the Pacific.
It
soon becomes clear that it's not just Los Angeles that's experiencing
disaster, the Yellowstone Supervolcano erupts, Las Vegas is destroyed
by a massive chasm that cuts through the city and an ash cloud from
the Yellowstone eruption, more massive earthquakes occur in South
America (one of which destroys the city of Rio de
Janeiro).
Washington, D.C. is flooded by an enormous tsunami
which crushes the White House, and The Vatican in Rome crumbles into
oblivion, destroying thousand-year old Catholic architecture and
killing thousands of worshipers within seconds. As massive tidal
waves began to sweep across the Earth (even at one point beginning to
climb over the Himalayas), the U.S. government declares the end of
the world.
A group of survivors, including Jackson Curtis and
his family must fight their way to China before they can board the
great arks and save themselves from the gigantic tidal waves flooding
the Earth.
After Watching:
How
we treat the earth, it will get back to us also. I also can
understand if one day the earth is angry and the world will like what
we see here. People become selfish becoz of their own’s sake. Only
rich and have high social status people can be alive, it’s really
not fair. In this kind of situation, promise means nothing. Like the
Indian guy who first find out the symptoms, the professor promise to
pick him by aircraft but finally they didn’t. it’s also can’t
say as the professor’s fault. We can see from here how parents care
to his children and how grandson cares for his grandma. What we can
do now is trying to precious this moment and to treat the earth good
and precious everything around us
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