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1、后天的英文影评 The Day After Tomorrow is a disaster movie,but it isnt a disastrous one.But if Roland Emmerich really thought he was making a movie with a message,he didnt quite succeed-to be honest,Emmerich is to serious film-making as Naomi Wolf is to recommending Voluptuous magazine.The fact that the mov
2、ie begins with the Twentieth Century Fox logo under stormy skies doesnt make it any more significant.Well-intentioned it may be,but the movies plot takes second place to the imagery-the opening credits over an icy landscape,the massive weather systems over the planet,colossal hailstones pelting down
3、 on Tokyo,snowstorms over India,tidal waves-and the numerous effects houses make it an eye candy feast,especially for people with a grudge against the Big Apple(kudos to Industrial Light and Magic,Digital Domain and all the less renowned FX companies involved).So on that level,it works;the music by
4、Harald Kloser and Thomas Wanker is also a bonus,being more restrained and serious in its support than is usually the way with Emmerich movies.And then theres the script-it has a whole load of characters but doesnt do much with any of them.Example:Climatologist Dennis Quaids relationship with son Jak
5、e Gyllenhaal doesnt seem to be as estranged as its intended to be,and similarly the friendship Quaid has with a longtime colleague gets about as much emphasis as the crush his younger colleague has on fellow scientist Tamlyn Tomita(and the movie pays for it later on in a sequence shamelessly ripped
6、off from Vertical Limit,which has little of the emotional resonance it should).In fact,all the human elements-Gyllenhaals repressed feelings for classmate Emmy Rossum,his doctor mother Sela Wards problems with a young patient,etc-all of them are underdeveloped or just plain undeveloped,and some mome
7、nts practically scream Contrived Climax Ahoy!Those moments are there because The Day After Tomorrow doesnt have an enemy as a natural outgrowth of its story;the elements arent really villainous as they have no concept of right or wrong,and the closest thing to a villain here is the current administr
8、ation in the White House,so Emmerich and co-writer Jeffrey Nachmanoff have to impose a tangible enemy(why else are those wolves there?)on the proceedings.This does help things from getting totally boring in the second half,though its still pretty watchable even then-but if some more thought had been
9、 put into the screenplay,like exploring the characters or developing the promising ideas therein(like Americans fleeing to Mexico,or further looks at the Government side),it would have carried more weight and made the movie into more than an improvement on Godzilla.As it is,its a competently done if implausible attention-holder that wants to be more;that it actually had the potential to be more makes it a bit of a disappointment,but at least its a watchable one