Analysis of Movie "2012" in Kantian "Sublime Theory"

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10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.137How to use a DOI?

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analysis; movie; "2012"; kantian; sublime

Abstract

As a disaster film, "2012" depicted the doomsday of human world, and showed us how the new "Noah Ark" drove people to the new era and got reborn. The movie, like a manly ??" planned great work, reconstructed Kant’s analysis in his "sublime" theory: the disaster as the fatal end of all human beings and the uncontrolled natural rules; the "ark" as the symbol of modern civilization; the salvation and people’s struggling for lives standing for the demonstration of "human power and spirits"; the survived as the witness of "the sublimity". Therefore, we might say "2012" is a great work to manifest human force and reason, but also a work showing a Kantian "sublime" tone. While, what the movie wanted to tell us is more: today we must re-examine the relationship between man and nature and find our "right" way towards future.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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