Apocalypse movies no longer have their former charm. ie no longer natural disasters And the aesthetics of the desolation accompanying it is remarkable, because it is no longer in the imagination, earthquakes andtsunami Real wars fed our visual imagination. This applies to films such as Independence Day, which was released in 1996, and received a huge response. While the second version of it, issued in 2016, went unnoticed, without attracting attention, but it can be said that the films of German Roland The disastrous Roland Emmerich no longer has the charisma we see in films like The Day After Tomorrow or White House Down.
Emrick’s latest movie is MoonFall issued this year. As indicated by the title, the work does not depart from the model of natural disaster films, the moon will fall to the earth, why? Because the companion planet of the Earth, which is responsible for controlling gravity and tides, is nothing but an artificial entity, created by a very ancient advanced human civilization, and what happened was that it was exposed to a “virus”; Deviated from its path and its direction towards the earth to annihilate.
The movie is not without propaganda.NASAIt is true that she lied, according to the movie, about landing on the moon, but it is the institution that will save humanity in the end. The movie refers to Elon Musk and his space program, but he is not responsible for saving humanity, but rather “NASA” and its capabilities and genius, but the funny thing is the fading of the aura around The astronaut.In a matter of days, anyone can take a spacecraft from the museum, slash the sky, and land on the moon.No need for training or experience, the journey has become easier and closer, and as usual, the same conflict is repeated with the military establishment, which wants to blow up the moon with weapons. Nuclear But no, “NASA” has a different solution, one bomb is enough, a smart bomb in a specific location is able to return the moon to its place.
Conspiracy theory appears in film as part of the mold that governs the genre; The struggle over the moon moves between well-established scientific truth and alternative and “crazy” hypotheses. And scientific theory usually wins, after being corrected, as in the movie “Independence Day”, which means that traditional science is the way to save the planet.
However, in Moonfall, it is no longer the genius scientist who has the solution, nor the astronaut who decides to sacrifice himself for humanity; Because salvation is in the hands of the laughing scientist, played by John Bradley, with theories that no one believes in. This man is suddenly transformed into a solid scientist, astronaut, and hero who sacrifices himself for humanity. All this after taking the approval of one person, the NASA administrator, played by Halle Barry. Herein lies the real problem with these films. Saving the world is in the hands of one person, an individual who is unlike anyone else, either because of his heroism or his acquaintances. He is the one who takes the very dangerous decision out of heedlessness, and bets on the lives of everyone, literally the entire planet, in order to deliver an impressive speech before us before sacrificing himself.
Moonfall re-introduces the history of humans, by pointing out that they were a dynasty ruling the galaxy, sending satellites everywhere to live the universe, but they were exposed to a virus of some kind, more precisely, the artificial intelligence that was harnessed to serve them turned against them, prompting them to modify their genes, keeping The organic ones and the denial of the “automatic” in order to survive.
Here the film appears as a traditional warning of artificial intelligence, which is capable of changing our lives, but at some point, it may turn against us, meaning that the danger is no longer external or natural, the source is we humans and our scientific ability, but what saves us in the end is the weapon, a bomb capable of Return the universe to its sober order.