How to beat a geostorm

Today I came across the movie “Geostorm” and decided to watch it to the end – well, I like Gerard Butler!

The beginning just struck me – what our planet has really come to, the film tells in the first minutes, even before the actual action starts – in the preface.

The entire political confrontation in the film was about a villain making his way to the presidency of the United States (naturally!) in a disastrous way. It jeopardizes the space station, built by “the whole world,” which ensures the stability of the planet’s climate.

The plot of the film is the hero’s struggle to save the station and the planet, etc. etc. – will remain “behind the scenes” of this note. But here is the idea of saving the planet, which is only possible through the joint efforts of heroes from different countries, coming to each other’s aid now and then, as well as the political will of the president of the country (and how zhizh!), and by all other possible means, that is what is important.

And I have long noticed that it is not just a couple of Hollywood movies that hold the idea of saving our world, planet, country, universe, a single village or town–whatever–only by working together. Again, it does not matter who – the characters of the film, the inhabitants of one city, a military unit, all together fantasy characters or all countries. The main thing is that together they defeat evil, no matter what guise it is presented in the film.

Yes, serious literature does not always end with a happy ending. She has a slightly different task. But millions of tabloid reads, bestsellers, all those books that are devoured by the mass reader-as they say now, on paper or in gadgets-also end in victory, achieved by the joining of forces of good will!

I am deeply convinced that the environment “makes” a person – from the very beginning, from his first breath in the world, and even before he was born. Nurturing the environment is something that is absolutely real and effective.

However, by environment I don’t just mean people. People go without saying.

We are brought up by the house or apartment where we have lived since childhood, the streets and beauty, the location of the town or village where I live, whether it is a sea town or in the steppe, beyond the Arctic Circle or in the Australian savannah. These are the things my home is filled with, encapsulating the memory and history of my family, my class, my school. It’s a place of work and rest, and so on.

Of course, I am educated by the literature I read, movies, plays, television, the Internet, the architecture (or lack thereof) of the city where I live. And so on and so forth.

We are raised by everything that surrounds us. That’s why our lives change so dramatically when we have to move from place to place – other people around, other manners and customs, other cities (or not), other languages, etc.

We change with our surroundings. We have to adjust to it in order to survive. Because you can become happy only when you are in balance, in harmony with your environment, when everything and everyone around you has one passion, one condition, one concern.

Going back to Hollywood and non-Hollywood movies.

Amazing! Why does the idea of a salvation union, after watching hundreds of such films and presented under the pathetically pathological music of a happy ending, never reach us?

It is a historical fact that Hollywood movies saved America in the 30s and 50s from the postwar depressions, both psychological and even economic.

Why isn’t it saving them now, or the world, which is awash with their film productions?

Why today is the idea of unification or the victory of love overshadowed by artists, directors, American hyper-extra-extreme pathetics, the scale of muscle and the humor of the characters? What is wrong with our instruments of perception? Why don’t our perceptive organs, senses, and brains get the most important ideas right? We have become ground up – and we only consume the most primitive things that the movie fodder offers us. “Peeple chow” is a disgusting phrase. But it’s painfully illustrative of the way we devour these movie candies, no longer paying attention to the fact that the wrappers very often tell the truth. Remember how we are always warned to read what is written on the package – the composition of the product, the expiration date, etc. – and we often miss it. And we often miss this…

I used to teach at the university and in the course of classes I used to talk to students (those who were brought up in the 80s and 90s) about the film “The Formula of Love” by M. Zakharov. The film is everyone’s favorite, watched “to bits” by almost everyone of us, taken to quotations that have become literally immortal – just like all of Mark Zakharov’s films.

So, my question to the students was compounded: Why is the movie called “The Formula of Love”? What formula for love did the characters derive? And which of the characters brought her out in the first place?

How many times have I asked students from different courses this question – I have never received a correct answer. Amazing! And they know the movie by heart….

What I want to say is.

Centuries-old truths, immortal and absolutely correct ideas and thoughts, capable of making everyone, anyone on Earth happy, are known to us almost a priori.

Do no harm, love your neighbor, be willing and able to give up everything for the sake of your loved ones, only together can you overcome anything, love always wins – these and many other truths
truths
as they say, lie on the surface. They are familiar to everyone.

But are they just getting sick of the constant repetition? Or don’t we understand the depth of them yet?

Or just not ready to be happy? Here, right now, each of us and all of us together?

Isn’t it time to prevent a geostorm that sweeps everything off the face of the Earth (or a virus, for example), just by turning on each other? After all, we will win together, and the formula for love was deduced a long time ago. And I really want everyone to be happy.

It’s about time…