2012

I was at my good friends house and we watched an apocalyptic movie, end of the world, crush-kill-destroy movie, and cheesy movie, 2012. 2012 is about the end of the world, and when doomsday myths come true of total world chaos, it makes for a good movie. The movie involves a lot of mythology due to the high amount of mythological feel to the movie while following a 'hero' on a journey. I say it has a high amount of mythological feel because the movie features unrealistic situations being portrayed. Such as the Earth's tectonic plates suddenly shifting at such a pace that the world is consumed into chaos. This is first not very plausible due to the fact that the world's plates suddenly don't shift at such a fast pace and if they were about to shift the world's scientists would know, thus leading me to believe within this movie there is a little fiction and myth.

Within the movie we follow Jackson Curtis a limo driver trying to write books and balance his life as a family man at the same time. He is the hero portrayed in the movie and I would classify Jackson under the Apocalyptic Hero for Heroic Archetypes. I portrayed Jackson as this specific heroic archetype because he faces unbeatable odds of surviving the destruction of his society and the world around him. Jackson Curtis is on a journey to find the arcs, huge boats constructed to save the people of earth from these cataclysmic events taking place on Earth. Also Jackson is on the journey to save his family, Jackson plans on finding these arcs to save himself and the people he loves while evading the destruction of the world.

The film follows a very high intensity Hero's journey starting with the...

• Departure: Jackson Curtis is living his quiet life being a taxi driver, and on the side being an author. Until his life is turned upside down when he realizes that when he sees a big earthquake rip open his entire city Los Angeles and narrowly escapes to the airport.


• Initiation: With California barely falling into the ocean Jackson Curtis can see that something is not right. While at the airport his ex-wife's boyfriend takes an airplane and flys it to Yellowstone National Park where he believes there to be a map to a place safe from the current catastrophe taking place globally. While taking a nice visit to Yellowstone National Park Jackson Curtis finds the map but narrowly escapes from a super-heated explosion from the nearby volcano that had just exploded. Destination China.


• The Road of Trials: Unable to make it to China in the flimsy plane Jackson Curtis and his companions poses they need to stop in Las Vegas where they meet up with Jackson's client Yuri. Yuri is also trying to get to China to get on the only hope humanity has for survival, the arcs. The group of dreamers run to a nearby plane on route to China,. Unfortunately the plane needs to re-fuel and the airplane must stop in Hawaii to their dismay they find Hawaii under flames, they must now fly directly towards China for as long as they can. The airplane eventually runs out of fuel and crash lands China.


• The Innermost Cave: As new people to a far and distant land Jackson Curtis reaches the arcs with the help of the locals. Trouble arises when a cord gets tangled in the boats gears and Jackson must try and untangle the cord for if he doesn't the arc will sink killing everyone on it. Almost drowning himself Jackson Curtis is able to untangle the rope and save the day.


• Return and Reintegration with Society: Jackson Curtis is hailed as a hero for what he has done and is able to save so many people. With Jackson Curtis and his family safe, him and his family await the new trials of a new world.
  

Within 2012 Jackson Curtis faces many challenges and within the movie there is 1 prominent symbolic archetypes Haven vs Wilderness. Jackson is constantly on the run because of the destruction of earth and is constantly on the move trying to find somewhere safe. Within this movie there are also many symbols involving nature and objects such as...

Rivers/Streams: Within the movie there are is a lot of water, constantly changing and shaping the newly re-modeled Earth. I believe the rivers and streams symbolize the life cycle, the cycle of a constantly changing Earth.

Boats: Within the movie the boats symbolize safe passage from the ever existent presence of the destruction of the world.

2012 brings around a whole bushel of characters such as the

The Hero: Jackson Curtis is on a journey trying to save himself from the destruction of the Earth while trying to save his family as well and running from the elements as Earth is being re-modeled.

Hunting Group of Companions: This includes Jackson Curtis's family and his Russian posse while following him to freedom away from the harsh elements.

2012 brings about some questions though for me. Do you think the Earth will have some cataclysmic event happen on 2012? Do you think it would look anything like what it was portrayed in the movie? And when you take the main characters initials J.C do you think these initials have any relevance to Jesus Christ the Saviour?