the way it was? In addition to other unexplained things, I think it harms the continuity of the story. At least in 12 Monkeys, it is explained why the future is so screwed up.
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They did mention pollution, and spacifically Acid Rain. This movie was made back in 1989 when we where sure Acid Rain would kill us all. Now no one remembers Acid Rain, and Global Warming will kill us all.
So a new version fo this would feature Global Warming killign us off, only to be dated when the concept is forgotten in 20 years time.
"This movie was made back in 1989 when we where sure Acid Rain would kill us all. Now no one remembers Acid Rain, and Global Warming will kill us all."
Just because you forgot doesn't mean it went away. Remember the hole in the ozone layer caused by CFCs. They stopped using CFCs and the hole started to heal. The other day I read an article that says that the scientists think the stuff they started using instead is... you guessed it... contributing to acid rain.
We are slowly destroying the environment, and it ain't no joke.
It's not explicitly described in the movie, but the physicist Mayer hints at the explanation given in the novel, that environmental mistakes have irrevocably changed the Earth's atmosphere and ecosystem such that hardly any animal exist anymore. The atmosphere is so polluted and altered that humans have adapted to the polluted air. That is why Louise smokes the cigarettes, as the movie explains; she must keep up the level of weird hydrocarbon compounds in her bloodstream, because our 20th century air was too pure for her lungs.
shareInteresting...Your post made something just occur to me. At the end when Louise tells Smith that she can't go with him and then the robot tells her to take a chance...Now I understand! Louise said that because she didn't think that she would survive in the future non-polluted air. Sherman the robot realizes that it is very possible that she will survive...And we all know that she does survive and have her and Smith's baby, of course :)
shareI took it as whatever that physics dude was rambling about during his speech.
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by courtney_strumpet_pie » Tue Aug 3 2010 09:26:12
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I took it as whatever that physics dude was rambling about during his speech.