The increasing number of forest fires and flood disasters both in our country and around the world shows how big a problem the climate crisis is for all of us.
With global warming and cooling, the natural resources that the world offers us are being severely damaged. Missteps in many different areas are also preventing nature from regenerating itself.
We urgently need to raise awareness if we don't want to experience much bigger disasters in the near future. To learn a little more about this and what we can do about it, you can do research and find out more about writings you can take a look.
But if you don't have the time to do research, or if you want to think a little more deeply about the issue, you can use movies to broaden your horizons. When we see with our own eyes the disasters that can result from the climate crisis, we realize how striking the situation is.
Movies about the Climate Crisis
1. Honeyland - 2019
First on our list is the movie Honey Country. This movie tells the life of a beekeeping family. The focal point of the movie is Hatice Muratova, who lives with her sick mother in a mountainous region in the Balkans. Our character, who tries to survive without electricity and water, is trying to make money by using mountaineering traditions and beekeeping.
Despite her poor living conditions, Hatice is cheerful, sings songs, does her work and always makes sure that the bees get their share of honey. But the nomadic beekeepers who come to the area where they live both reduce her source of income and disrupt the natural balance here. Our main character struggles to restore the natural balance.
You may prefer to watch this movie to better understand how unconscious people are about natural resources and why industrial beekeeping is not classified as ethical production. I am sure you will have deep thoughts at the end of the movie.
2. Beasts of the Southern Wild - 2012
This film, which won four awards at Cannes, was directed by Benh Zeitlin. The main character, Cimcime (Hushpuppy), lives in a poor neighborhood in New Orleans. After her crazy father contracts a mysterious illness, Cimcime must save both him and her flooded house.
The main theme of the movie is that there is an unprecedented disease and this undiagnosed disease changes the way the whole world works. COVID-19 with the pandemic. This makes the movie much more intriguing for us.
The excitement builds as the character journeys to find his mother on the other side of the world, and in the process, the audience witnesses the power of the ancient army fighting to bring about the end of the world.
3. Snowpiercer - 2013
This science fiction film is the first English-language work of South Korean director and screenwriter Bong Joon-ho. The film, which received full marks from the critics, tells the story of the chemical warfare launched in 2014 to stop global warming as a result of the joint decision taken by 79 countries in 2014.
Considering today's events, we can say that this movie is horrifying in terms of its plot. The step taken to eliminate natural disasters causes the world to enter a new ice age and only a thousand people survive until 2031.
Living together on a train that shovels snow, these people try to survive by circling the globe, but class differences persist in spite of so few people. Snowpiercer is a must-see for sci-fi movie buffs.
4. The Age of Stupid - 2009
Consumption, war, although there are solutions in the movie, climate change The 21st century may go down in history as the Age of Stupidity because of the human race that has not taken any steps in such matters. Considering the disasters that are happening today and the fact that most people are doing nothing to prevent them, I am sure that this movie will raise questions in everyone's mind.
A mix of drama, animation and documentary, this film seeks answers to questions about whether human beings will lose the world due to their unconscious behavior. While searching for these answers, it tells the audience six independent stories.
We can say that the overall aim of the movie is to raise awareness. Through the stories it tells, it expresses that countries should do their best to join the sustainable living movement.
