One of my favorite disaster movies is “2012”, that movie had some of the best visual effects I have seen. It has a ton of allusions, and even a prophet in a named Charlie Frost. I could debate that Charlie in some form is alluding to John, but I want to focus on a broader subject that doesn’t leave speculation. The movie “2012” is basically about the end of the world, and how humanity must survive the disaster that surrounds them. It took me a while to figure out which subject in the movie that alluded to the book of Revelation, but after reading over the book the connection was made clear. The movie centers on a family that is divided, a scientist named Adrien Hemsley who develops the plan for the survival of the “elites”, and the different Heads of States of the leading countries.

   The movie develops over the course of a year, and during that period of time the governments of the world organize a strategy to save the “elite”. This seemed strange to me while watching the movie, and it also caused me to ponder over if our world is really set up in a fashion to only save the “elite”. Nevertheless, this is how the movie develops and over the course of the movie it was made clear that many people are going to die. It almost made me think of the part of Revelation where only 126,000 people survive a great disaster. However, the allusion that I am basing my blog off of is in chapter 6:14-17. The text reads about the kings, rich men, and chief captian retreating to dens within the mountain. The four verses also mention that these groups of people hid within the mountains to hide from the destruction that the Lord is bringing upon them.

 

In the movie the leading countries build “arks” in the mountains of China.  They built these arks to withstand against the coming threat. These “elites” were well aware of the coming danger and chose to flee to the mountains of China to hide in these arks.  This group of people were a melting pot of “elite” people. There were kings (Saudi Arabian King), rich men ( the retired boxer  Yuri Kurpov), and heads of states of all the major world countries they included: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, India, and Chinese heads of state. They all were desperately seeking refuge on these Arks. It’s interesting that in both stories the people fleeing the disaster are of an elite class. I don’t believe this to be a mere coincidence, I have belief that the movie “2012” was in indeed alluding to Revelation. It is an apocalyptic movie, and there are many allusions in the movie, but I enjoy picking out things that don’t jump out automatically to the reader and the viewer. This allusion was hard to pick out, and I only found it by rereading the chapter about the seals.

check out the trailer here!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvI66Xaj9-o