2012

This is a little late in coming, but you can blame my mom for that; she's very careful about the movies she lets us see and I just got to watch 2012. Anyway, the title of this post has a dual meaning. 1) the movie 2012, and 2) the actual year two years from now.

OK, so, the movie. There are four things I'd like to address about the movie: the religious aspect of it, the government aspect, the scientific aspect, and the family aspect (which ties in a little with religion). The underlying theme for me was humanity, which I'll get to later.

1. THE GOVERNMENT
The government, in this situation, doesn't tell the people what's coming, and it makes me wonder: How much is our government really hiding from us? I mean, if you can hide the APOCALYPSE, you can hide darn near anything. And their deception was so self-centered, too. THE WORLD IS ENDING, and you don't tell anyone because you're afraid of anarchy. Well, you're gonna die anyway, boys, so as your last duty, tell the people what's coming.

Would our government hide this kind of thing from us? Look at all the things they've hidden before and ask me that question again.

And finally, the government was ready to bar innocent people from boarding the ark. Was there room in the ark? Yes. Was there enough time? Barely, but yes. Here is what one government official said to one of the main characters,a scientist named Adrian, who wanted to let the people in, "Well, sure, you've killed the whole human race, but at least you have a clear conscience!" Or something to that effect.

And the message after that was, "If I 'saved the whole human race' by not letting those people onboard, there wouldn't be a human race, because caring for eaach other is what makes us human." All throughout the movie, we saw humanity at work, God's creatures helping one another. Which leads me to religion.

2. RELIGION
2012 is a religion basher if I ever saw one. Everywhere crosses crumble, statues fall, doomed people make Signs of the Cross in vain. Once, a character was landing a plane in the Himalayas (don't even ask)and it touched down and skidded toward the edge of a cliff. He made the Sign of the Cross, and the plan stopped at the very edge. He grinned.

The plane tipped, fell, and exploded when it hit the ground.

However, you can't banish religion from our minds. The fact that all those people who lived did, the fact that we were human enough to let them on board the ark, proves that God was at work there. No matter how much they try to bash religion, the survivors still escaped a FLOOD on an ARK. So there.

3. FAMILY
Sort of a continuation of the religion aspect of the movie, all you saw throughout the movie was families sticking together, whether it was facing death together or hanging on to life together. Jackson did all he could to save his family. Others, not so lucky (or were they?) clutched each other as they were hit by tsunamis. Phone calls were made, I love yous and goodbyes exchanged. So many families went to heaven together in that movie. I don't care whate the producers were trying to tell us. God was at work here.

4. SCIENCE
Was wrong. Gosh, I love this movie. It shows how shortsighted science is. Which is sad, because we base our lives around it. Examples:

Pluto's not a planet. Wait, yes it is... Oh, never mind, it's not.

My Grandpa was an ape. "I heard that..."

Global warming!!!

Wow. You can't trust science, you can only trust God. I think this movie sort of backfired on itself, because that was the message I got.

Oh, the humanity! People helping people, hugging people, saving people, loving people, sacrificing for people... God did a good job with us, guys. Sure, we jack it up sometimes, but hey, we're human.


Now for the actual year 2012. All I can say is, I hope the world doesn't actually end in 2012, because if we elect Obama, it just might.

Take this as a warning.

God bless.