2012, I got the joke.

I’ve read a lot of reviews about this movie before I saw it. To sum up, they are all illustrated version of: It’s the worst movie ever.

Now that I have seen it with my own eyes, and the comment I have for all the critics is this: you’re wrong. This is the best movie ever, you just didn’t get the joke.

I nearly laughed my head off during a few scenes. The way the story was told is so blunt and straightforward that you can picture a brilliantly smart director saying: yes, u dumb ass people want this, here you go. Cheap dramas, high tech effects, a black and white perfect story about a perfect end of the world. To support my theory, examples.

The director seems to have had a painful experience to convince someone when something is too late. Hence the movie scene where the father calls son in Japan, but Japan is gone. Lesson learnt: sometimes, when I say too late, I mean too late. It reminded me this movie I saw about PLA soldiers saving people in a flood. It was compulsory so see those kind of movies when I was in middle school. It’s essential to educate the young the brilliance of the communist leadership and the bravery of the people’s liberation army. It made me cry. A lot of things make teenage girls cry, in that movie, the key words are: selfless soldiers, diligent officials, saving innocent people, have no time for their own family. Therefore, the story of communist ideology was told in a communist style, and subtlety has never been a virtue here. But when it’s done in Hollywood, I’m stunned with joy.

Any China scene starts in this movie, you wonder what the Chinese movie censurers are doing. Then you realize the brilliance of the director again. When he means literally what he means in the rest of the movie, the hidden sarcasm will make blunt Chinese censurers think he meant what he meant and let the movie into China. PLA soldiers help Tibetans to retreat, DL lama being the spiritual leader and die when world ends, China being the only country capable of making alien size ships…people, don’t you get the joke???

I was thrilled with joy though when I see that communication networks always work during any natural disaster. If I were to be trapped alone when world ends, I’ll call my family to send love, call the guy I love but didn’t love me back to say that I still hate him, I’ll call some friends, and hopefully to receive some phone calls expressing their hidden emotions for me. Afterall, China mobile is very reliable.