The Dutch atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen stated that the Anthropocene can be defined as “a new stage had begun in Earth’s history, one in which humankind had emerged as the most powerful influence on global ecology”. The film The Road and the BBC TV series The Day of the Triffids address the concept Anthropocene, which means human impacts on the Earth, but in distinctive ways. This is best demonstrated by the image such as the revenge of the Triffids caused by oil extraction in The Day of the Triffids and the end of the world caused by the use of nuclear weapons in The Road.
This essay will examine the consequences, the scale of these impacts and the realism of both films to show that The Road is a more compelling Anthropocene narrative because …show more content…
The picture of the heavily polluted sea appears first and after that, the film goes back to the past when The Man was with his wife by the blue and beautiful sea. This combination in the film is very important in realizing the results of human nuclear weapons and understanding how severe these consequences are.Its severity is also proven throughout the film by destroying the natural world such as the trees, the forests, the sea, changing the climate and even indirectly eradicating the American Civilization. As can be seen from the reality, the firestorms from nuclear explosions inject soot into the stratosphere where they block direct sunlight from reaching the surface of the Earth and it is responsible for low temperature on the Earth. The Anthropocene is not just about global warming, decreasing the temperature also has serious outcomes and one of its horrifying effects is nuclear winter. Either in the film or in the reality, the risks from nuclear weapons are too big and the use of these weapons is a threat to the humanity. Therefore, using nuclear weapons must be stopped …show more content…
Firstly, the world in series is referred as “those imagined other worlds located somewhere apart from our everyday one” (Atwood 11). The triffids are just fantasy creatures like dragons so in that world, the consequences caused by these creatures seem vague and unreal. When being asked about the realism of science fiction in The Guardian, the author Kim Stanley Robinson also said that "I think I do science fiction because I feel like if you’re going to write realism about our time, science fiction is simply the best genre to do it in” and as a representative of science fiction films, the series fails to talk about the reality that human is truly in. In general, The Day of The Triffids “is made up mostly of disaster stories set in the future” (Ghosh 72) and it is hard for viewers to find any connection between the world full of the imagined plants and the actual world and they feel that the epoch Anthropocene contains problems “in another time, in another dimension” (Atwood 11) while human is actually living in this epoch and the Anthropocene is a serious issue that human needs to know. Compared to The Day of the Triffids, the old world in The Road seems to
This essay will examine the consequences, the scale of these impacts and the realism of both films to show that The Road is a more compelling Anthropocene narrative because …show more content…
The picture of the heavily polluted sea appears first and after that, the film goes back to the past when The Man was with his wife by the blue and beautiful sea. This combination in the film is very important in realizing the results of human nuclear weapons and understanding how severe these consequences are.Its severity is also proven throughout the film by destroying the natural world such as the trees, the forests, the sea, changing the climate and even indirectly eradicating the American Civilization. As can be seen from the reality, the firestorms from nuclear explosions inject soot into the stratosphere where they block direct sunlight from reaching the surface of the Earth and it is responsible for low temperature on the Earth. The Anthropocene is not just about global warming, decreasing the temperature also has serious outcomes and one of its horrifying effects is nuclear winter. Either in the film or in the reality, the risks from nuclear weapons are too big and the use of these weapons is a threat to the humanity. Therefore, using nuclear weapons must be stopped …show more content…
Firstly, the world in series is referred as “those imagined other worlds located somewhere apart from our everyday one” (Atwood 11). The triffids are just fantasy creatures like dragons so in that world, the consequences caused by these creatures seem vague and unreal. When being asked about the realism of science fiction in The Guardian, the author Kim Stanley Robinson also said that "I think I do science fiction because I feel like if you’re going to write realism about our time, science fiction is simply the best genre to do it in” and as a representative of science fiction films, the series fails to talk about the reality that human is truly in. In general, The Day of The Triffids “is made up mostly of disaster stories set in the future” (Ghosh 72) and it is hard for viewers to find any connection between the world full of the imagined plants and the actual world and they feel that the epoch Anthropocene contains problems “in another time, in another dimension” (Atwood 11) while human is actually living in this epoch and the Anthropocene is a serious issue that human needs to know. Compared to The Day of the Triffids, the old world in The Road seems to