Sarah Abdin

The idea of ​​the end of the world and the great wars has become a great control over the collective consciousness of human beings, and the terrible predictions about the future of the world or the demise of the entire planet Earth are still among the most widely discussed ideas in cinema, reflecting the collective anxiety and ambiguity that surrounds this matter, until it is considered a large and ancient research presented Presence of the world.

The American and world cinema includes tens and possibly hundreds of films whose idea was based on the end of the world or predicted major wars and revolutions. In this report, we review some of them:

The sacrifice
The film is considered one of the most important films of director Andrei Tarkovsky who always chose to present major issues in his own way. The film begins with a person planting a tree with a child, the tree here may be synonymous with the lost faith in the midst of human alienation and their distance from spirituality and control of matter.

The film is about a reporter and a researcher in aesthetics who knows about a near nuclear explosion that will unleash the third world war that will destroy the whole world. The hero faces that catastrophe by praying and invoking God to save his family.

Ultimately, he arrives at an agreement to prevent the disaster from occurring, after he does his part, gets up in the morning to find that the world has already returned to its first stage and no disasters have occurred, and in the end we see the land tree that has become mellow green.

The film is long and based on long subjective dialogues, which give the viewer an opportunity to visualize the hero's reactions, and put himself in place, especially with Tarkovsky using the music of German musician Johann Sebastian Bach, but it remains a philosophical film that needs scenes that can probe the scenes into the essence of the film.

"The Last Battle of Samurai"
The film is considered one of the most important films of the Japanese director Akira Kurasawa, and it is inspired by the story of the King Lear play of Shakespeare, but it intersects with the story and makes fun of it in some way.

The movie begins with the old warlord Ichimonji and his three sons on a hunting trip to fall asleep during the trip and finds himself wandering alone in the world. The prince considers this vision a signal for him to hand over his authority to one of his sons.

As a result of the father handing over his authority to one of his sons, wars take place between the three sons and the world turns into ruin, so that the old prince sees the world that he built, governed and lived in, ending up in chaos, destruction, and terror, in reference to the fate of man who will end up in nothingness under the eyes of the gods from the point of view The director looked.

Kurasawa relied on the aesthetics of the picture in his nearly 3-hour long movie, and he used strong colors as an expression of a return to primitive and first brutality.

Dawn of the Dead
The movie revolves around the four survivors of the Apocalypse, after destroying the world due to the mysterious plague, after which the dead begin to return to life again with an insatiable hunger of human flesh, and whenever they attack a person who also turns into a "zombie", which increases the number of living dead in each Moment.

"V for vendetta"
It is an American film based on an illustrated novel by English author Alan Moore of the same name. The film takes place in Britain in 2038, after Britain turns into a totalitarian country ruled by a right-wing extremist party.

The film derives from a real coup attempt, which took place against King James I by a group of rebels, the most important of them is Guy Fox, who appears as his main hero of the film.

It is considered one of the most important films that predicted major revolutions and events in the world, so that Vendetta's mask was present as a symbol of the revolution in most of the revolutions that occurred after the film was shown.

"The Day After Tomorrow"
It is considered one of the most famous American science fiction films and it revolves around the issue of sudden climate change and global warming that leads to the freezing of the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the emergence of a new ice age that causes the death of humanity.

Although it is a fictional movie, there are a lot of real concerns among climate scientists about the occurrence of a new ice age during the next two decades, and calls for the preservation of the environment and the atmosphere, so that the film does not turn into reality, due to the high frequency of global warming and gases that flow from the planet .