ECOCINEMA AND ENVIRONMENT: MISE-EN-SCÈNE OF 2018: EVERYONE IS A HERO
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Every human being has an environmental responsibility. This responsibility triggers the awakening, showcasing how horrible the callousness from the end of humans, reflect on the environment. Humans should realize this responsibility and should resent vociferously against the disasters caused to the environment. However, many human beings remain dormant or unresponsive to the biggest catastrophe that the world encounters. This negligence leads to disaster like droughts, floods, earthquakes, cyclones etc, subsequently resulting in a huge catastrophe. The mass media plays a pivotal role in the social awakening of all the citizens.Movies have always served as a popular culture to showcase the climate change crisis. Significantly, a huge global audience gets educated through movies. Recent cinema has witnessed the uprising of movies echoing the climate change crisis. All these movies reverberate the causes and the consequences of the man-made catastrophe of the environment. This genre, specifically termed as eco-cinema, lenses the resources in nature and the issues that affect these resources. This genre, moreover catenates, the human-nature relationship. Consequently, these eco-movies serve as visual warning to the global audience, reiterating the impending doom on humans and their habitats. Ecological issues that are challenging to life on this planet include floods, drought, cyclones, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions. The present paper analyses an Indian movie by name 2018, produced in the southern state of Kerala, highlighting the havoc of the 2018 floods.
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