Film Analysis

The film “Disruption” by Kelley Nyks and Jared P. Scott is a 52 minute film that was realized in 2014. The film sets out to inform people and persuade them that we need to change the way we are running our earth, environmentally, and we need to do it now. The directors of this film provides an abundant amount of evidence for the need to change ranging from scientific evidence to real world proof of devastating events. A huge example of these devestating effects of climate change is the destruction done to the Philippine islands from the super typhoon Haiyan; The film not only shows the destruction but it also gave insight to how and what a local felt and had to deal with. The directors also chose to include politics in this film and how they are denying climate change despite the intense evidence that proves climate change is real. The film also track the biggest climate rally in history giving us an inside scope into some of the work that was being done.

This film opens up with a very eye catching scene of the beautiful earth being filmed from out of space. It then goes to a black screen saying that this isn’t the earth we are in today. The earth we are on today is full of disasters caused by climate change. It’s full of pollution, emissions, and death of humans and ecosystems. The film displays this perfectly by showing a very devastating event that took place, super typhoon Haiyan. Super typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippine islands and destroyed “everything”. The film helps us see this but typhoons are just a normal part of the earth cycle right? Wrong. The intensity of this typhoon can be seen as an direct correlation of climate change. The directors goes on to explain how scientists, for years, have been explaining climate change and how real it is. In 1892 Joseph Fourier discovers the idea of the greenhouse gas effect. From here on the evidence just intensified. However, the film shows how even though the evidence is growing politicians keep ignoring it or making up temporary “solutions”. For example the 2 degree Celsius increase cap. The video makes note that at the rate we are going, using up fossil fuels and releasing CO2, we will far surpass that capping at a 6 degree increase. This might not seem like a huge number but an increase of this amount makes civilization on earth impossible.

This movie did a very good job at giving off a sense of importance. The use of the music combined with the scenes being displayed made everything so suspenseful. However it also informed. Much of the information used might be hard for your common person to understand. This film gave a way for you to understand via analogies. For example, an ability given compared fossil fuels to millions of dollar bills buried; once found you will keep digging and digging to get more. However, you are paying a cost to dig and there is a ticking clock counting down the time to something. The way I took this analogy was that the ticking clock counted down to destruction which is ultimately true. The constant digging for more of these fossil fuels are leading us to destruction. Things like this are put into ways that people can understand the urgent need for action.

This film made me feel sad and motivated. It is very sad to see something like super typhoon Haiyan hit and destroy an actual town. It’s hard to see this and not want to take action. It’s hard to see this and not feel so sad that your emotionally driven to have to break from the movie. However, the saddest part was to know that their are people that deny climate change is having real affects on people’s life; and that’s where my sadness turned into motivation. It turned it to motivation to try and go help, to try and get involved more into the movement, to inform others and ultimately that is the goal. It’s good to see people of different race, religion, and gender get together and march in this historical rally. It’s good to see that no matter what differences they have they are all passionate about this movement. It also helps you see that you don’t have to be afraid of not being heard because your are not alone.