It has been a while since a science fiction thriller really sent a surreal feeling of apocalypse… with an agenda. What transpired over the next 2 hours of the movie somewhat had me intrigued rather than jumping off my seat over ’12 Rounds’. There were no bullets flying around, no explosions but yet, had me glued to the seat finding it hard to believe that the more the story went on, the more it felt like a revelation of sorts. The essence is not just the apocalypse and the voodoo of having a pre-empt scientific premonition but more of a look into our religious beliefs.
Ezekiel Wheel? Tree of Life? Doesn’t that sound more like a religious item? In fact, my interpretation of it was, the revelation of our belief in God. That being Cage’s dad a pastor, and Cage being a science professor with MIT that chooses to believe in the theory of determination and what not as a case of random occurrences instead of life as a being or faith. Also, the ‘whispering people’…. There were so many parts in the thriller that points out to one thing and one thing that all religions professes in, ‘Pray’ and start believing. The fact that Cage wasn’t the ‘Chosen’ one towards the end of the story and how his tears denoted another revelation where he began to understand how and why he wasn’t the chosen one being a non believer simply denotes one thing, the end of the world isn’t too far away and if you haven’t heard yet (part thereof from the whispering people) or prayed lately, we better start doing so and hope that at the end of the day on Judgment Day, we can be forgiven for not doing it in the first place. Sounds complicated? … I think not.
Apart from it being a science fiction (so-called), I think it also serves us with a surreal but defined message that no matter where we go, family is where it all begins and ends, and given the current climate situation on Earth, the ‘Solar Flare’ or any other apocalypse (next movie coming up in ‘Super Typhoon’), some day, it will happen and if we don’t take drastic steps to change the way we consume mother nature’s wealth, we will end up killing it. The release of the movie was also coincidentally tied up with the on going Earth Hour events all around the world.
On the whole, the movie was an entertaining chapter to conclude my busy week, to ponder again, believing that God have reasons for everything that happens... or are they just a series of pre-determined sequences synchronized as a cause to scientific theories?....
On a lighter note, below here were pictures of KL, before and after EH60 started *Courtesy of TheStar.
Notice how KL went 'dark' for one hour.
Would anyone dare to imagine what if really, the government supports it to the extend of shutting down all the substations and major grids, making it compulsory to go 'dark', what if that happens... can anyone imagine what will happen within that hour?
What chaos one hour can carry to Kuala Lumpur...
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