"2012"

Yesterday I saw the 2012 movie. It was amazing. It had action, romance, tragedy, and a clear, meaningful statement.


There are a hell of a lot of things to get out from this movie. One of them, is a quote said by the lead character (the guy, don't remember his name) which said: 'The moment we stop caring about each other, is when we stop being human', 'Civilization and culture means to protect each other and work together for a better place. Destruction does not take place in civilization' and last but not least, 'If we start the new life with cruelty and death, what is there to wait for the future?'.


Also there is the issue of who survives. Who has the ability to judge who is worthy of surviving and therefore carriyng the legacy of what once was earth, civilization and the meaning of being human?.



I think the best way to start this analysis is by determining what does human means. Is it merely having two legs, two arms, a face and a body? I would say no. What distiguishes us from animals and other creatures is the fact that we have intelligence, and are aware of how and which is the best way to use it. We have consience. We are impulsive yet able to be reasonable. We have manners, customs and rules. We have real feelings. We have a soul.

In conclusion, we have the entire package. But what is important is not the fact that we have all the capabilities, but that these are inter-connected, they work together. One comes with the other.

For me, being human equals a complete life. The opportunity to trascend and be better. It doesn't necessarily means caring about one another, but then again, if we don't look out for each other then who is?. How can we be human if we don't respect other humans, equal to us?. How can we call ourselves something we don't care about?.

So He was right. The moment we stop respecting and caring and being reasonable and just with each other, is the moment we cease to be called humans. The moment we start being impulvise, salvages, disrespectful, without manners, unreasonable, ...Just like animals.



Then there is civilization. I think that currently people link that word with urbanization, cities, technology, liberalism..yet always forget to include what being civilized means. It means to be civil, a good and active person in community. Therefore, civilization should mean to be good, active, reasonable, following rules, developed, educated. Not technology. I bet that with some American's manners it would be rightful to say that indians are more civilized and rightful.

And were does culture comes from?. A culture is a set of customs followed by an amount of people, mainly either because of origin or religion. Culture comes from nationalism. From groupal (I don't know if that expression is right) love or admiration towards something. And do we want to disrespect and hate those who in other times we would've called brothers and sisters, because of common thoughts and interests?. Is it really civilized to let them all die, when those are the people we seek for support and help in times that claim change?.



This movie reflected all the flaws and bad things of humans. Reflectes the complexity of emotions and justice. The constant fight between our individualism and heroism. I got to the conclusion that our current society is shamefully more on the bad side than on the good one. We call ourselves humans, yet we don't make good use of those things that differentiate us from animals. We call ourselves civilized, when we loose control over anything and are not able to be patient and understanding. We call ourselves part of a culture we either don't participate actively in, or don't really care about the people that forms it and therefore makes it possible.
We choose among all the good and bad people, only those who are wealthy enough to pay it as survivors. Are we really saving the best of our kind?. I think not. I think probably as the president I would've done some sort of random selection of people to survive. A leader, of course. No old people. Not because I don't like them, but I think it is better to save kids, teens and young adults that will be able to fight for a new world longer.

Really, I just thought it was a very intersting and good movie overall. I think it is really a mirror of what we do and what we should do. I liked it a lot. I hope everyone sees it and tries to understand what I wrote. And add some things, too.