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A huge sheet of ice moved south from the North Pole and melted as a result of global warming, causing an unprecedented imbalance in the atmosphere and ocean. As a result, twisters began to form in the densely populated Los Angeles and hail of size much bigger than golf balls began to fall in Japan. Humongous land formed hurricanes with extreme cold air in the center began to form, killing anything in the open air where it passed. The New Ice Age was just about to come. Climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) predicted all these and he was only wrong in the prediction of time. His son Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal) was in New York. Jack promised Sam that he would travel from Washington D.C. to save him. His journey in the northeast of United States soon sounded much like an adventure in the North Pole.

We have heard a lot about global warming. We may think that the damage is going to be gradual and the effect will not be deadly in our next few generations. "The Day after Tomorrow" tells us that we may just be plain wrong. Catastrophic climate changes could be just around the corner. For those who do not understand the relationship between global warming and the forming of ice age, this film will surely make the knowledge stuck in your brain.

The film features how helpless we are when we face mother nature, or the mother nature that we create. There is just nothing that we can do when the disasters come. Unlike director Roland Emmerich's previous film "Independence Day", there are no heroes to save the humankind. The humankind was not extinguished in the film just because a balance in the atmosphere and ocean reach a new balance in a few days. Jack's bravery to save his son may make him a hero in front of a few people, but the fact that there are more survivors in the New York area than the number of people he found (not even save) trivialized his promise to his son.

Another huge difference from "Independence Day" is that Americans are not portrayed as almighty any more. Many of them and the wealthy Europeans became refugees in the Third World. Some Americans were even denied entry into Mexico in the film. I am wondering whether this is another message from the writers to the US government that perhaps it should treat other countries better.

I am almost sure anyone who watches this film knows that the writers want us to think how we can prevent this by reducing green house effect, that we need to take action not in the next decade, not in the next year, but now. Some people argue that global warming increase the area of arable land, and the change in climate is only a cause redistribution of wealth and a change in the way of living, and so humankind as a whole may not be worse off. The film has a strong stance against this. After all, the Earth is going to survive. It's the humankind which may not.

I hope that the film will be watched by as many people as possible, and that people would internalize the message from the film. If we fear what is going to happen, let us figure out how it can be prevented.

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