The end is the means to the beginning. End of the world or just a wrong interpretation? This is the question being asked in the movie 2012, which is directed by Roland Emmerich.
2012 is a movie about the expected ending of the world in December 2012. The film goes in depth on the apocalypse predicted by the end of the Mayan Calendar.
This epic adventure begins in 2009 with a huge explosion on the sun. As the movie continues different major events are shown from 2010 and 2011.
Then the movie jumps to 2012 when Jackson Curtis (John Cusack), his ex-wife (Amanda Peet), and his children are saved by Curtis’s ex-wife’s boyfriend who is a pilot and flies the family to safety, as the crust of Los Angeles tilts downward into the Pacific.
All over disasters are happening, and the US declares the end of the world. Jackson Curtis and his family must fight their way to China to survive the massive tidal waves sweeping the Earth.
“The world isn’t going to end with a flood because according to the Bible, God said he would never flood the Earth again,” said sophomore Bola Taiwo.
But is this movie a simulation of what could possibly happen in 2012 or just an idea that is being used to make money and scare naïve souls?
“I don’t know whether or not the world will end in 2012… the world could end tomorrow for all I know,” said senior Adefola Adeosun.
However, the end of the world is not stated in the Long Count Calendar. “The End” is a misunderstanding that Westerners came up with because their own interpretations did not have as much evidence, according to the current Mayan descents.
Author Daniel Pinchpeck popularized New Age concepts about the specific dates in his book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoat. The ancient Mayans created a calendar that stated the end of the Long Count Calendar would be in 2012.
The various characters, stories and disasters shown in this movie could possibly be the future stories of families in the year 2012. The moviegoers had mixed feelings after the movie.
“The movie sales this weekend for 2012 were outstanding; many of the movie goers were excited about watching this movie. After the movie, their reactions were either scared or apathetic. Some believe that the world won’t end that soon, while others thought of what they should do before they die,” said janitor Oladoyin Olaitan.
According to John Major Jenkins, American author and independent researcher, in the mid-1990s he stated that the world is supposed to end by the Earth aligning with a black hole, collision with a rogue planet, and polar shifts. These claims have been rejected by the scientific community as pseudo-science. The ending of the world in 2012 violates the laws of physics and is contradicted by simple observations.
2012 ends with an ending that is different than the crowd expects.
The movie 2012 was a good movie however; whether the world will end or not is something we will all have to wait to find out.
