Tuesday, 27 January 2009

The Day the Earth Stood Still




We have come to a point in our lives on this planet where we can no longer justify our ends by means of this planet, Earth. We continuously deplete the natural resources of this planet with a little or no realization of consequences. We have come to a point in time where we have to ask ourselves, can we continue the way we live? What are we leaving for our children and their children to come. We can no longer do what we do the way we do. We have to change.

This movie comes as a message of this fact. A beautiful movie. The movie is about an alien who comes to earth, played by Keanu Reeves. The mission of this alien is to eliminate the source of the Earth’s demise, the human race. The midway of the movie show the glowing circular objects to collect specimens of species other than human in an attempt to preserve them once the human race, thread, has been eliminated. Jennifer Connelly plays the role of Dr. Helen Benson who tries to convince Keanu Reeves, Klaatu, of bearing the human race and giving them a chance to mend their ways and start over.

The destruction of earth starts, leaving behind no trace of humans, a brilliant sight, not the destruction of humans but the way it was visualized, amazing graphics. Dr. Helen is successful in convincing Klaatu that humans have another side that only at the point of extinction do they make a realization and are open to accept change. Klaatu see’s this and stops the destruction.

I don’t know why the movie has had such a poor acceptance amongst the masses, maybe because we are not ready to accept that it’s our fault and are not ready to change the way. The movie tries to show that to every action there is a consequence, and we will soon see the consequence.
Until the next review,
Eddy out!

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