Movie Review
Name of Movie: Earth 2100
Describe/list/ outline the main themes of the
movie. (50 words)
The movie´s main
themes were about the process that planet Earth is experiencing this last years
and how, in a hypothetical way, the world would be in a hundred more years. It
shows a destroyed world through the story of a fictional woman called Lucy. It
talks about environment, politics, and our responsibility as humans with the
world.
Write a review (200 words) of
the video. Highlight the importance of
the movie’s information/ themes/ topics to your own personal experience and
professional perspective.
The movie shows us, in a mixture of fiction and
reality, all the problems that are happening these, like global warming, economic
crisis or the overuse of natural resources. It tells the story of Lucy, born in
2009, and how while she grows, the planet Earth collapses after humanity and governments
didn’t act on the right time. Through her story, we can see how the way of life
we now have is not bearable, and if that we continue this path; our destiny is
to destroy this planet Earth. The movie shows only what happens in the USA, so
it´s a little annoying but despite of that, we can see here the reality of the whole
world and how society and our so called leaders will be affected by these
global changes, transforming our way of life, because our resources will
diminish with the years. At the end of the movie, after we saw a destroyed
world, there´s a hope final, when we understand that we have the power to act
now to stop this.
For me as a future architect, this reaffirms the
commitment that I have now and in the future with nature when I design a
building. Construction is one of the most contaminating things on Earth, so it
is our responsibility to find new ways to build sustainable buildings before
and after they are made.
List a minimum of three
facts, pieces of important information or “other” from the video that you would
like to remember and would want to tell a friend about.
1. I really didn´t like the movie, not because
I´m not agree with its themes or that I´m one of those who don´t believe in
global warming. I disliked it because on the contrary, I´m really interested in
what is happening right now on Earth, and I think this movie don´t gives the
message properly. The strategy it uses is not very good because it tries to be
a documental but at the same time a fiction movie, so that confuses the
principal theme. Is it global warming and the real facts that are happening
these days, or is it Lucy fictional story whit her husband death and life
problems? Is it a science fiction movie or a documental? The movie is not clear
in what she wants to be.
2.
The movie shows what
happens at USA, so it´s a little bit annoying because it shows how others are
collapsing the world and they, at the end, can be “our saviors” (like they
always think they are). The movie didn´t tell when for example the United
States where the only ones who didn´t sing the Kyoto Treatment (90’s) to face
global warming. I´m not saying that USA is the only guilty in the world, we all
are, but I don´t enjoy when they show themselves like heroes and blame China,
India or South America.
3.
There are good thing in
the movie too, despite the fictional story that at the end results to be speculative.
The last 10 minutes show us real and actual tools to fight global warming and
how NOW we can act. If I may recommend, I would tell you to see a French documentary
called HOME that is very good and shows real things that are happening now on
this planet. HOME show us pictures of the Earth that really touches you and
makes you understand that this problem is real and not a fictional story. That’s the message that I kept from Home
and from the end of this film: we must act now.
