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The Day After Tomorrow 26 May 04

Section: article

Categories: distraction / in-a-cinema

When I first saw the film The China Syndrome in 1979 on lower Cape Cod—shortly before the accident at Three Mile Island and seven years before the accident at Chernobyl—I was so shocked by the film, or rather by its idea of an accident at a nuclear power plant, that I got lost while driving home afterward. Getting lost on lower Cape Cod was no small feat, since it’s a peninsula, a rather narrow one, with really just two parallel streets running north to where I wanted to go, but I managed to do it. A one-hour return trip turned into well over two hours till I got back to Provincetown with an almost empty tank at a time when gas stations didn’t stay open 24 hours, and they probably still don’t on the very civilized Cape.

I don’t know how the balance between trivialization and drawing attention to what we are doing to this earth will weigh in with this film The Day After Tomorrow, and maybe it’s just me, but trivialization tends to win out.

Title: The Day After Tomorrow

Directed by: Roland Emmerich

Story: Roland Emmerich

Screenplay: Roland Emmerich and Jeffrey Nachmanoff

Dialogue: Whoops E. Daisy

Starring: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Dash Mihok, Several Frozen People and Three or Four Digi-wolves

Year: 2004

Cinema: Turm Kino, Frankfurt

  • Title: The Day After Tomorrow