Don't Look Up on Netflix. A metaphor for politics and COVID
I really enjoyed it. Don't miss the funny scene after all the credits run.
It's such a powerful metaphor for politicizing science in exactly the same way the Republicans acted during the entire COVID situation.
ItsjustMe
(11,709 posts)mopinko
(71,848 posts)didnt know it was available here.
ItsjustMe
(11,709 posts)It's a great browser extension, and it's free.
https://darkreader.org/
mopinko
(71,848 posts)IrishAfricanAmerican
(4,176 posts)will watch next week.
markie
(22,926 posts)we are watching it tonight... I have a houseguest here that worked on the film so I will get a blow by blow I'm sure
Delmette2.0
(4,264 posts)I give it a huge thumbs up! And just about to post my own recommendation.
Ohio Joe
(21,894 posts)Very funny, I laughed through the whole thing. Ron Pearlman was a riot.
Ocelot II
(121,001 posts)The message isn't subtle; I don't think it was intended to be. There's some pretty intense satire going on. Meryl Streep is a hilariously and obviously Trumpish president - imagine TFG as a woman, a skinny bottle-blonde with a touch of Cruella DeVille, ratings-obsessed and unable to stop talking. Her chief of staff is her son, a smarmy, obsequious cross between Don Jr. and Jared Kushner. The celebrity- and trivia-obsessed media get a good skewering, too. I think I'll watch it again.
intrepidity
(7,894 posts)Although, is there really a way to 'spoil' this film? But anyway, the ending where you see a cell phone flying through the air with "Congratulations! Your diet is over!"
Does that mean the person was vaporized, or blown to pieces? The app detected the loss of mass? Pretty dark humor there...
consider_this
(2,827 posts)It was the app that the Jennifer Lawrence character was using as her countdown to the impact of the comet. As you saw a displayed at that moment, goal had been achieved.
intrepidity
(7,894 posts)I had to skip through some of the innanity, missed that detail.
Laffy Kat
(16,524 posts)Once, around 3:00 a.m. this morning, although I kept falling asleep, and just now with my youngest son.
Adam McKay, "The Big Short", directed the film as a metaphorical warning about climate change. It's both funny and sad. It stars several actors I'm frankly burned out on, but everyone did a great job and it turns out the casting was perfect.
Cuthbert Allgood
(5,170 posts)Though McCay is still spot on.