Jahannam (film)

Jahannam (International title: Hell 2096) is a 2021 Borneoan science-fiction environmental thriller anthology film directed by Putri Norizah, based on a screenplay by Brandon Vandort. The film presents a worst-case scenario which presents the ramification of worsening environmental damage, climate change and constant ignorance of environmental issues, including water wastage.

Plot
The film is divided into nine segments following the same plot.

2021
A climate change awareness protest marches through the streets of St. Michaelsburg. The protest is led by environmental advocacy group Green Tears, demanding that Borneo's National Energy Grid phase out all of its coal plants. The demonstrators gather outside the NEG building, but are approached by police officers commanding them to disperse or they will open fire at them.

A demonstrator furiously berates an officer, claiming that such officers work no longer for the government, but for "corporations who want to trade environmental health for entire vaults of money". The demonstrator is arrested, but the protesters continue to chant. Riot police are dispatched to silence the protests, and the officers fire at the protesters forcing them to disperse at last. Commanding officer John Ehnström smirks maniacally as he sees them flee.

2022
In Limbang, Temburong, Portuguese Burgher João Fonseca is a cryptocurrency enthusiast who sells NFTs on the art-sharing site DeviantArt. One day, he draws a picture of Boyfriend, the main character in the 2020 rhythm video game Friday Night Funkin', and mints it as an NFT, selling it for 500 bitcoin. The following day, he begins seeing weird visions reminding him about the negative aspects of NFTs.

That night, he is approached by a "cryptoskeptic", a critic of cryptocurrency. He tells Fonseca that if he continues selling NFTs, he will contribute to worsening climate change, as cryptocurrency transactions leave large carbon footprints. Fonseca is unconvinced and angrily tells the "cryptoskeptic" to leave, which he does. Fonseca then goes back to work on more NFTs.

2026
Ramlee, a Banjarese fisherman in rural Kapit, makes a living off of fishing for tilapia and cod. During one summer, he begins to notice that the fish are becoming less and less numerous. Returning with only a small bundle of his catch (26 tilapia and 8 cod), he returns home to roast the fish for him and his family to eat. He is visited by an anonymous neighbor, the "cryptoskeptic" in the prior segment the next day.

He offers Ramlee 50 Borneoan dollars in exchange for giving him a whole tuna. Ramlee, initially unsure knowing the declining number of fish, reluctantly accepts the offer, and gets on his boat. After a night of fishing, he finally catches a tuna and gives it to his neighbor as part of the offer. He refuses the money, but eventually agrees to keep it until he wishes to take it back.

The neighbor cuts open the fish intending to cook it. To his horror, he finds plastic and paper articles in the inside of the tuna. Ramlee barges in at the last second and gives him the 50 dollars he agreed to receive. Ramlee then walks back to his house, embarrassed.

2031
In Antarctica, a Borneoan-led expedition is sent to study the worsening climate conditions. The leader of the expedition, a Kristang man named Carlo de Costa, leads his team across the Antarctic ice. Chen, a Chinese researcher, notices something off with the consistency of the ice. As they walk into a flock of running penguins, they hear what appears to be a sudden clap of thunder.

Unbeknownst to them, the ice has started melting at a faster pace than before, and the "thunder" just came from a calving glacier. Ramlee's son, now one of the explorers, comes across a dead penguin and brings it back to the ship's lab for analysis. After finding out that the penguin was killed by methane poisoning, another clap of thunder sounds, but more play in rapid succession.

The researchers come to the realization that the ice shelf they explored is now starting to collapse. The researchers attempt to steer the ship away, but to no avail. Chen begins to cry in anguish as the ship is crushed by falling glaciers and sinks.

2046
Ehnström is now the CEO of Helios Energy, a large industrial firm based in New York, after being fired from the Borneoan Police Force in 2025, a year after another climate protest in St. Michaelsburg went sour. Returning from the United States, he emerges as the corrupt corporate boss Ryan Hoffman, disguised in a silicone mask, matching gloves and a suit and tie to conceal his previous identity, which he has now abandoned.

In April, Ehnström calls his executives to a meeting, and announces that they will visit a recently-opened oil rig in the South China Sea. However, an oil spill occurs on the platform. Ehnström and his executives laugh on, and when some of the workers threaten to quit, Ehnström angrily refuses their threats, forcing them to go back to work and ignore the environmental ramifications of the oil spill.

An older Ramlee emerges from his hut, and shrieks at the sight of the blackened water. His fear turns to anger when he sees a speeding yacht with Ehnström and his executives aboard, and curses at him repeatedly until his wife calms him down and Ramlee retreats back inside.

2056
The city of Singkawang in Pontianak is attacked by contaminated air and smog, caused by a large-scale fire which resulted from an explosion at a coal plant, forcing all of its inhabitants to wear oxygen masks when going outside. Chen's distraught Chinese Peranakan husband, Ricky, is a former worker at the coal plant who left 10 years ago due to Chen's death, and now lives with his children Janet and Ryan.

The next day, the situation worsens. The smog is so bad that visibility is reduced. Ricky and his children, donning oxygen masks, go outside to check at the coal plant. It turns out that the coal fire cannot be extinguished due to the high amount of coal burning and the hot temperatures, and return home only to find out that the entire city is to be evacuated. The three pack their bags and leave the city inside one large convoy.

2071
In rural Kapit, Ahmad, an Arab Peranakan farmer, lives with his family on their stilt farmhouse. His farm struggles with crop failure: although his rice and wheat grow well, the vegetables he is growing do not. Ahmad and his family have started to use up all the remaining fruit, vegetables and crops they grew in the past.

One day, Ahmad is approached by Monique, a Dutch Indo running a fruit orchard growing apples and mangoes. Monique tells Ahmad she is experiencing the same problem. Two National Agency for the Environment and Public Utilities agents then enter Tatau, taking samples of soil from Ahmad's farm and Monique's orchard and sending it to St. Michaelsburg. The agents come back to reveal to them a shocking truth.

It turns out that the soil in Kapit and Sarawak is becoming poisoned by constant usage of pesticides and chemical pollution, and Ahmad is horrified knowing that it will not be long before he and his fellow farmers suffer. Ahmad chooses to take his family to Kuching for them to live a better life.

2081
In Inner Borneo, various lumberjacks wearing oxygen masks are sent by the multinational industrial conglomerate Steecoalios, formed from the merger of Helios Energy and various steel manufacturing and mining companies, to clear the state's last remaining section of the Bornean rainforest and evict its animal inhabitants to make way for a nuclear power plant. One of the lumberjacks, revealed to be Ahmad's son Mahmoud, is reluctant to do so.

Mahmoud comes across his daughter's Dutch Jew friend, who has been reduced to an emaciated, baldened figure with sores all over. He then finds out that both his parents died 13 years ago, with Ahmad dying first of renal failure and his wife Sanya of starvation. While reminiscing about his memories with his family, his taskmaster snaps him out and tells him to get to work. He does as he is told and starts cutting off the trees with a chainsaw.

Three months later, the nuclear plant is now in operation. Steecoalios' CEO, Erik Ehnström (under the alibi Randall Bergeron) visits the plant, clad in his suit and tie, male silicone mask, gloves and gasmask and carrying his briefcase, accompanied by his executives and his now 107-year-old grandfather John, and meets up with some of the workers. However, the plant workers have become angry at Erik and his executives.

One of the bosses furiously berates Erik, telling him that Erik had used him for his own personal gain and forced him to hurt his employees if they didn't comply. He walks out along with some of the workers, leaving an angered and betrayed Erik to find more workers for hire. The segment ends with a news report from SMCT talking about an explosion at the nuclear plant and the evacuation of all its staff.

2096
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