气象学家杰克•霍尔（丹尼斯•奎德饰演）博士观察史前气候研究指出，温室效应带来的全球暖化将会引发地球空前灾难。杰克博士曾警告政府官员采取预防行动，但警告显然已经太晚。当罗得岛大小的冰山
撞上南极洲冰川后，全球气候引发连锁效应：冰雹重袭东京，空前飓风袭卷夏威夷，印度罕见飘雪，洛杉矶更刮起史无前例的龙卷风。杰克研究中的灾变症候逐一显现：南北极冰山的融解将大量淡水注入海洋。在一场全球性超级暴风雨来临后，地球将步入一万年前的冰河世纪。
正当杰克警告白宫紧急应变的同时，他17岁的儿子萨姆（杰克•葛伦饰演）被困在纽约，面临曼哈顿严重水患及不断下降的温度。萨姆到曼哈顿公共图书馆避难，尝试由电话联络父亲，分秒必争的杰克命令萨姆，无论如何一定要守在室内，并尽量保暖。此刻美国正式宣布民众大规模向赤道方向撤离，杰克只身北上前往纽约救萨姆，但杰克完全无法想象即将发生在他、他的儿子及地球上的一切……
本片子片头首先是一个较长的移动镜头，是航拍的，交代大的环境是在南极，然后紧接着就是冰川大裂缝的惊险情节，这一组快节奏的惊险镜头最后由一个大远景来结尾，展现了冰川大裂缝之大。这部电影的摄影善于运用前景来营造气氛，并且几乎每个镜头都是运动的，拍摄的外景喜欢用天空的夕阳作为后景，善于运用大自然赋予的美来增加构图的美。
在东京天空下冰雹的那组镜头，虽然我觉得冰雹有些大的夸张，但我感觉出一种美，像大块的水晶，给人们一种提问，明天我们的生活环境会不会出现这样的景象。如果出现该怎么样办。
“明天之后，你会在哪？”也许我们每个人都不知道答案。
当你看到《后天》电影DVD封面上的这醒目的提问时，会自问？如果我们真地在如此的挥霍自然，明天之后，我们会在哪里呢？
也许每个人都会说这是一部灾难片，我却不这样认为，只是灾难片会给人们这样的悸动吗？只是灾难片会这样引人深思吗？只是灾难片会让我们看到那么美好的“明天”吗？《后天》在我眼里是一部结合了亲情、爱情、友情、社会责任、人类文明的综合性电影。
《后天》中的主人公——古气候学家杰克·霍尔为了去营救被困于纽约的儿子，不惜冒着失去生命的危险在冰天雪地里前往纽约。这里体现的父子之情，是多么纯正——不论他们平时的相处时间是多么的少，无论杰克为了研究多么忽略他的家人，但在关键时刻，他做了保证，他前往，前往他儿子的身边。他的儿子森同样的爱他的父亲，当被问之最快乐的假期时，他的回答竟是和父亲一起遇难十多天。遇难可不是什么好事，可是能和爸爸在一起，那就是最美好的。当飓风眼袭击过后，通往“希望”的门被打开时，杰克和森面对面的那一刻，那种激动时不能言语的，不用说“我爱你”，只有一句“you make it”就能表达出全部的情感——欣慰，激动，无限的亲情，温暖的爱。
你会为了你喜欢的女孩冲向危险么？你会为了陪在她身边保护她么？至少森会。为了她，他可以参加他毫不感兴趣的学术会，只是为了能在她身边；在面临被洪水淹没的那一刻，是森跑回去救她；在她因感染面临生死难关时，是森凭借着智慧，在面对冰天雪地和饿极的狼匹的威胁下，在船中找到了治疗的药品。影片的最后，当他们得救了，她轻轻靠在了他的肩膀上，找到了一生的依靠。
《后天》之中友情、社会责任也随处可见，杰克研究所的朋友们，陪伴着他踏上了凶险而未知的旅途；森的朋友们，陪着他去寻找救命的药物；杰克的妻子——一名医生，在最后一刻都陪在她的病人身边；大量的研究人员在不懈的努力改善环境问题。
这一点一滴，都会让我体会到这部“灾难片”的深意，就像那个博士说的话一样：“重要的不是看着自己的孩子长大，而是他会长大”，是的，重要的不是明天会怎样，而是会有明天——有一个明天让我们创造。
回过头来，谈谈作为灾难片《后天》制作问题，东京街头的巨大冰雹、纽约市的滔天洪水、阻挡不了的超级龙卷风，这些在制作上可谓是做工精良，真实惊险。
本片的另一个特别的看点就是它不是发生在荒无人烟的沙漠而是在人员密集的城市——人们每天的生活场所，试想一下如果《后天》变成现实，恐慌、惊险、求生，流动的人潮，为了生存不顾一切的人们……一种人类共命运的真实感受会给人们带来某种欢喜，不仅仅是灾难，这里更有着与生存紧密关联的东西在里面。
《后天》是一部值得人们深思的影片，它教育我们要注重环保，真正做到人与自然的和谐关系。这确实也是现代社会的一个重大问题，无止境的索取、无止境的浪费，我们是为该真正的反思一下了。这部影片在叙事之间不时的会用抒情来平衡，特别是影片的后半部分被围困在图书馆的那段，表现的特别人性化，人的感情主宰着事态的发展也表现出了人在面对大自然时的弱小无助。抬起头，看着天空，希望我们天天头可以拥有蓝天，而不要等灾难发生后，像那个宇航员那样询问他的同伴：“你见过这么蓝的天吗？”
《后天》还有一个值得看的就是视觉效果，演员的表演几乎没有任何可圈可点之处。编剧导演将所有角色放在商业流水线上，打磨成统一尺寸的螺钉螺母，几乎放过了对任何可能出彩的剧情、对白、或对角色的琢磨。因此你不会看到那些面对浩劫灾难时本应变得复杂、叵测、意味深长的人性和人物关系，取而代之的是被处理得潦草苍白的爱情、亲情或者友情。它们在电脑特技造出的末世景象面前，虚假得如同一束塑料花儿。因此，当片中那两大团状如冰激凌的“风暴眼”在大气层上空缓慢移动，地球像一枚误放入冷冻室的柿子那样从外到里逐渐结满了冰碴儿的时候，我心想，这世界总算清净了……
还有一个另我难忘的镜头是在龙卷风刚刚过去之后，躲在办公楼里的那位男的怀着好奇心颤颤栗栗的走向那扇门，当他打开那扇门时，一刹那不止是他傻了，连我也愣了一下，天啊，他打开的是一扇天窗啊，是一片被扫荡过的狼狈的世界，后面还有正在示威的龙卷风，这时镜头给了一个拉远的大远景，有点世界末日的感觉。
分析了这么多，我觉得这部影片的成功之处是给我们敲了一次警钟，保护环境不是一个人的责任，也不是一个国家的职责，而是全世界人共有的责任，如果我们还继续破坏和污染生活环境的话，那么人类的后果就像在本片上演在屏幕上的一样，相信每个人都不希望电影中的灾难再在现实地球上上演一遍.When global warming causes world wide disasters and leads to an ice age, a climatologist named Jack Hall tries to rescue his son Sam who is trapped in New York.Jack must go from Washington D.C.to New York, but on the way some things happen.Can Jack rescue his son? Forget all that you have heard about The Day After Tomorrow’s dubious scientific basis.That the drastic climatological changes the film is based around could never happen is of no concern.This, after all, is a disaster film.As such, it’s supposed to present an incredibly outlandish situation that no one in their right mind would wish to experience.Who, after all, would go to see a fictional film that accurately represents the intricacies of climate change? Would you spend your hard-earned cash on a movie that had the tagline: ‘The average rainfall has risen by 0.3% over five years.Only one man can warn the world.That man is...Fish.Michael Fish’?
Plot Summary:
This movie takes a big-budget, special-effects-filled look at what the world would look like if the greenhouse effect and global warming continued at such levels that they resulted in worldwide catastrophe and disaster, including multiple hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of the next Ice Age.At the center of the story is a paleoclimatologist (a scientist who studies the ways weather patterns changed in the past), Profeor Jack Hall (Quaid), who tries to save the world from the effects of global warming while also trying to get to his son, Sam (Gyllenhaal), who was in New York City as part of a scholastic competition, when the city was overwhelmed by the chilling beginnings of the new Ice Age.In addition to all of the other challenges Dr.Hall faces, he\'s also going against the flow as humanity races south to warmer climes, and he\'s nearly the only one going north...
后天The Day After Tomorrow英文影评
It is such a relief to hear the music swell up at the end of a Roland Emmerich movie, its
restorative power giving us new hope.Billions of people may have died, but at least the
major characters have survived.Los Angeles was wiped out by flying saucers in Emmerich\'s
\"Independence Day,\" New York was aaulted in his \"Godzilla,\" and now, in \"The Day After
Tomorrow,\" Emmerich outdoes himself: Los Angeles is leveled by multiple tornados, New York
is buried under ice and snow, the United Kingdom is flash-frozen, and lots of the Northern
Hemisphere is wiped out for good measure.Thank god that Jack, Sam, Laura, Jason and Dr.
Lucy Hall survive, along with Dr.Hall\'s little cancer patient.
So, yes, the movie is profoundly silly.What surprised me is that it\'s also very scary.
The special effects are on such an awesome scale that the movie works despite its cornball
plotting.When tornados rip apart Los Angeles (not sparing the Hollywood sign), when a wall
of water roars into New York, when a Ruian tanker floats down a Manhattan street, when
snow buries skyscrapers, when the crew of a space station can see nothing but violent storm
systems -- well, you pay attention.
No doubt some readers are already angry with me for revealing that Jack, Sam, Laura,
Jason, Dr.Lucy Hall and the little cancer patient survive.Have I given away the plot?
This plot gives itself away.When cataclysmic events shred uncounted lives but the movie
zeroes in on only a few people, of course they survive, although some supporting characters
may have to be sacrificed.What\'s amusing in movies like \"The Day After Tomorrow\" is the
way the screenplay veers from the annihilation of subcontinents to whether Sam should tell
Laura he loves her.
The movie stars Dennis Quaid as the paleoclimatologist Jack Hall, whose computer models predict that global warming will lead to a new ice age.He iues a warning at a New Delhi
conference, but is sarcastically dismied by the American vice president (Kenneth Welsh),
who the movie doesn\'t even try to pretend doesn\'t look just like Dick Cheney.\"Our economy
is every bit as fragile as the environment,\" the vice president says, dismiing Jack\'s
\"sensational claims.\"
Before long, however, it is snowing in India, and hailstones the side of softballs are
ripping into Tokyo.Birds, which are always wise in matters of global disaster, fly south
double-time.Turbulence tears airplanes from the sky.The president (Perry King) learns the
FAA wants to ground all flights and asks the vice president, \"What do you think we should
do?\"
Meanwhile, young Sam Hall (Jake Gyllenhaal) goes to New York with an academic decathlon
team, which includes Laura (Emmy Roum of \"Mystic River\") and Brian (Arjay Smith).They\'re
stranded there.Ominous portents abound and Jack finally gets his meage through to the
administration (\"This time,\" says a friend within the White House, \"it will be different.
You\'ve got to brief the president directly.\")
Jack draws a slash acro a map of the United States, and writes off everybody north of
it.He iues a warning that super-cooled air will kill anybody exposed to it, advises
those in its path to stay inside, and then ...well, then he sets off to walk from
Washington to New York to get to his son.Two of his buddies, also veterans of Arctic
treks, come along.
We are wondering:
(a) why walk to New York when his expertise is desperately needed to save millions? (b) won\'t his son be either dead or alive whether or not he makes the trek? And——
(c) how quickly can you walk from Washington to New York over ice sheets and through a
howling blizzard? As nearly as I can calculate, this movie believes it can be done in two
nights and most of three days.Oh, I forgot; they drive part of the way, on highways that
are gridlocked and buried in snow, except for where they\'re driving.How they get gas is
not discued in any detail.
As for the answer to (a), anyone familiar with the formula will know it is because he
Feels Guilty About Neglecting His Son by spending all that time being a paleoclimatologist.
It took him a lot of that time just to spell it.So, OK, the human subplots are nonsense --
all except for the quiet scenes anchored by Ian Holm, as a sad, wise Scottish
meteorologist.Just like Peter O\'Toole in \"Troy,\" Holm proves that a gifted British-trained
actor can walk into almost any scene and make it seem like it means something.
Quaid and Gyllenhaal and the small band of New York survivors do what can be done with
impoible dialogue in an unlikely situation.And Dr.Lucy Hall (Sela Ward), Jack\'s wife
and Sam\'s mother, struggles nobly in her subplot, which involves the little cancer patient
named Peter.She stays by his side after the hospital is evacuated, calling for an
ambulance, which we think is a tad optimistic, since Manhattan has been flooded up to about
the eighth floor, the water has frozen, and it\'s snowing.But does the ambulance arrive?
Here\'s another one for you: Remember those wolves that escaped from the zoo? Think we\'ll
see them again?
Of the science in this movie I have no opinion.I am sure global warming is real, and I
regret that the Bush administration rejected the Kyoto Treaty, but I doubt that the
cataclysm, if it comes, will come like this.It makes for a fun movie, though.Especially the parts where Americans become illegal immigrants in Mexico, and the vice president
addrees the world via the Weather Channel.\"The Day After Tomorrow\" is ridiculous, yes,
but sublimely ridiculous -- and the special effects are stupendous
