The latest big movie from well known director M. Night Shyamalan features a science teacher concerned about the plight of the bees. The film is called “The Happening” and is about a mysterious mental malady that grips the nation as thousands of people are compelled to inexplicably commit suicide.
The movie will certainly expose a many people to the plight of the bees and help to educate them about Bee Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a mystery plague that is decimating bee hive populations across the nation and threatening the health of the nation’s food supply.
The plight of the fictional characters in the movie somewhat mirrors the plight of the bees in the real world. Both scenarios feature what appear to be perfectly normal healthy adult organisms that suddenly and without evident cause wind up dead. And both scenarios are inspiring some foreboding dread about what these deaths may indicate for the health of the larger society and/or the environment.
According to movie reviews the as yet to be released film features Mark Wahlberg as a science teacher who tries hard to inspire his students to hypothesize why the honeybees are disappearing. I think its great that Hollywood is taking notice of this crisis. It will hopefully serve to inform a group of people about this important issue that doesn’t read the science section of the newspaper.
It often takes a movie to really imprint an issue onto the consciousness of a nation. Shortly after the huge success of the movie “The Day After Tomorrow” the public as a while began to take the climate change issue much more seriously than before. The movie featured a highly fictionalized version of the natural disasters that might occur due to global warming.
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