Tomorrowland - Review

Spoiler Alert! 

If you want to save time, just watch the last 30 minutes of the movie. =P

(image taken from Moviexplorers website)

Tomorrowland in this 30-minute movie is a place in a hidden dimension where scientists and geniuses gather to build a high-tech city (this was the initial reason of me being dragged to the cinema by my dear lol) for a better world. The origin of Tomorrowland is unclear to me but what I know it is being managed by some automated...err...robots with high intelligence like human, or I should say, more than that. The movie begins with two flashbacks about how Frank, a clever boy got into the Tomorrowland with the help of Athena, a robot girl who never ages (yeah of course) and how Casey got to know about the Tomorrowland and was asked to save that city from destruction.

Casey, a enthusiastic girl who dreams and has faith.
(photo taken from Tomorrowland-movie website)

Lets skip the whole chunk of the story in the middle and get into the main point. Frank invented a machine at the Tomorrowland which allow us to look into the past and also into the future all over the world. People in the Tomorrowland lost hope when they saw that eventually the world would come to an end and there is no point continuing what they were doing at that time. Frank was banishe from the city because of that and slowly the city became deserted. Everything changed when Casey found Frank and caused the probability on the catastrophe probability meter to lower a little with her ambitious mindset. Frank brought Casey and Athena back to the Tomorrowland and destroyed his invention to restore the hope for the world.

Well, this is similar to our reality. We see what is coming in the near future - global warming, extinctions, mega earthquakes, tsunami, mutation - and are experiencing them as the degree gets stronger and stronger. But what have we done? Instead of losing hope, I guess what happening now is that we don't care. Yes global warming, so what? Ok maybe global warming is a bit difficult to relate it to our daily life. Another example, water shortage. Last two months we experienced water rationing here in Selangor for some periods of time due to water shortage and water pollution at the source. We lived in the situation and we went through the very inconvenient live of not having free-flowing water straight from the tap. Instead of using water more carefully to avoid wastage, we blamed the government for not doing a good job managing our water source, we stored as much water as we could before the rationing started and we still used water as if there was no tomorrow because there was still water from the tap (in fact, the water was coming from the storage tank on the roof and the water had stopped being supplied).

This water rationing practice is a preventive measure to ensure safe and clean water supply for our use in long run, but to me, it is also a simulation for us to experience the days without easy water. Education through videos of children from Africa suffering due to water scarcity is proven not enough, even this simulation does not seem to work for most of us. Tomorrowland taught us a lesson of never lose hope after seeing what could happen in the future and strive to change it. Come' on, we didn't lose hope, yet, but are we even trying before we reach the state of losing hope?

Be the change that lower the percentage on the catastrophe probability meter, if everyone does the same, I believe that we can have a better tomorrow.