This movie doesn't raise anyone's consciousness, it lowers them. Already I see people in forums confused about this movie. The original book on which it is based doesn't even blame it on global warming, but it's simply a cyclical event that happens every so often in geologic history (like every 250,000 years the Caldera in Yellowstone explodes and kills vast stretches of life in North America)
Film is a very powerful medium. Even though people know that the camera lies and represents the artists viewpoint, not reality, they are still suckered into it. Who hasn't cried at a good movie? Movies can make associations they don't even exist. Imagine if I show a picture of a dying child, anywhere in the world, then show a picture of Dick Cheney. What's the implication? What if I show a picture of a women being raped, then show Bill Clinton? What's being intimated?
Day after tommorow is all well and fine as a popcorn disaster movie, like Core, Armagedon/Deep Impact, Dante's Peak, etc. There is no need to use it as some tool for public policy. It movie is gross fiction, has nothing to do with current global warming issues, and just muddies the debate with nonsense.
