The film begins in year 2009, when there is a huge explosion on the
surface of the sun. We then see Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor), an
American scientist, traveling to a copper mine in India to meet his
friend, who discovered that Earth's temperature is increasing rapidly.
He returns to Washington D.C. and submits a report to his supervisor,
who immediately takes him to the president. In 2010, we see the
President of the United States tell other heads of state the situation
(the world is ending) and we also see billionaires all over the world
buying plane tickets for untold sums of money. In 2011 the original of
The Mona Lisa in the Louvre is replaced with a decoy, and is sealed
away for unknown reasons.
The story jumps ahead to 2012. Jackso
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"On a recent flight I sat next to a businessman who told me that, even at their young age, his children were exhibiting very different personalities. He saw signs of his wife's overachieving tendencies in their son. In his daughter, he saw himself. In the first grade she was getting lectured for not applying herself enough. She, too, was a slacker.
He was frustrated by her slacking ways, but he also sympathized because she showed traits of his business mindset.
"She does her own little cost-benefit analysis," he said. "She realizes that she can do just enough to get by and use the rest of that time for playing and having fun."
I had never thought of slacking off in those terms, but he was right. I've known my share of slackers, and most of them are intelligent people who could easily upstage everyone else's efforts if they applied themselves
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Everyone from brides and grooms to movie studio execs are celebrating the upcoming calendrical anomaly in their own way.
In Florida, at least one county clerk's office is offering a one-day wedding special for $99.99. The rarity of this Sept. 9 hasn't been lost on the creators of the iPod, who have moved their traditional Tuesday release day to Wednesday to take advantage of the special date. Focus Features is releasing their new film "9," an animated tale about the apocalypse, on the 9th.
Not only does the date look good in marketing promotions, but it also represents the last set of repeating, single-digit dates that we'll see for almost a century (until January 1, 2101), or a millennium (mark your calendars for January 1, 3001), depending on how you want to count it.
