Compare and Contrast The Day After Tomorrow and Outbreak Essay

Which of these movies provides a more effective wake-up call about impending global catastrophes?The Day subsequently Tomorrow and Outbreak both raise important concerns regarding the world that we live in. The first movie seems to serve mainly as a warning that as a people of this planet we need to do everything in our power to stop destroying our world. Outbreak demonstrates the vulnerability of the United States and for that matter all nations of the world in dealing with large epidemics. Though both movies raise legitimate concerns they also both are quite sensationalized in order spice it up for moviegoers. The roughly effective movie in providing a wake up call for humanity is totally debatable and is entirely dependent on the eye of the beholder.In The Day After Tomorrow a climatologists warning of the possibility of massive cataclysmic climate changes caused by global warming go unheeded. His predictions of the consequences of such(prenominal) actions just so happen to occ ur sooner than anyone had ever expected. This movie served as the ultimate example what could happen if as a world association we do not clean up our acts. Continued consumption of nonrenewable resources, increased carbon dioxide emissions and further depletion of the Ozone layer could though most likely not on the scale illustrated occur in one form or another. The moral of this film is summed up by Dennis Quaids character in the break down scene when he mutters his last few lines stating that hopefully humani...