It seems that I've watched a different movie than majority of people. There are movies that act as signs of times, often using satire as a means of expression. Then there's Don't Look Up.
What made Dr. Strangelove so special was that, IN SPITE of official narrative of Cold War scare of Russians, Kubrick made a movie where complete world annihilation was justified by using the same reasoning that officials use. Kubrick shamed that narrative by using their own arguments. He was the true opposition and the voice of reason when that resource was scarce.
Here, we see an official narrative of "trust the scientists" to shame right wingers, especially Trump (staff composed of family members, anti science paroles etc), and the satire is used by the official narrative to show how everything would be better and all discrepancies between two polarizing options would cease to exist if we just trusted scientists. Here, politicians are shown as incompetent clowns and idiots and scientists are shown as emotionally incontitent, insecure geniuses that fall into every possible science trope that exists.
This movie should serve as a warning for climate change and Covid. However, it completely accidentally (which is actually a good thing) ends up being ridiculous. You had predictions from established scientists throughout the world on how many people will die from Covid. They all missed the mark 10x. Some newspapers like Guardian predicted 20 years ago that London would be under water by 2010 (Internet remembers).
Instead, we suspended our democracy because we thought that politicians are idiots and non elected scientists should lead because of their expertise. No one asked on their accountability in case they were wrong. This movie does not challenge the official narrative, it actually amplifies it. This is basically a US propaganda. It is especially bad US propaganda as other countries are portrayed as idiots. In case of a large asteroids, all governments would work together and, even though US would, as always, try to lead the efforts, it would definitely not be the only one capable of doing something.
Also, that dig on Apple (new OS and cell phone presentations that are larger-than-life), mixing data collection with life altering decisions has completely missed the mark. Apple sells data privacy and Apple, AFAIK, has no space faring and mining aspirations. Tesla does, but they are not in the business of collecting data. We have an issue with corporate oligarchs, but these are the same kind of people that this movie actually defends, although accidentally (again, sic!).
The last thing is that, while actors perform flawlessly, the funniest thing is that the main star is DiCaprio, climate activist who has carbon footprint of a smaller African state, mainly to drive his girlfriends on a private island for swimming, drinking coctails and having fun while preaching how we should return to the Dark Age.
What made Dr. Strangelove so special was that, IN SPITE of official narrative of Cold War scare of Russians, Kubrick made a movie where complete world annihilation was justified by using the same reasoning that officials use. Kubrick shamed that narrative by using their own arguments. He was the true opposition and the voice of reason when that resource was scarce.
Here, we see an official narrative of "trust the scientists" to shame right wingers, especially Trump (staff composed of family members, anti science paroles etc), and the satire is used by the official narrative to show how everything would be better and all discrepancies between two polarizing options would cease to exist if we just trusted scientists. Here, politicians are shown as incompetent clowns and idiots and scientists are shown as emotionally incontitent, insecure geniuses that fall into every possible science trope that exists.
This movie should serve as a warning for climate change and Covid. However, it completely accidentally (which is actually a good thing) ends up being ridiculous. You had predictions from established scientists throughout the world on how many people will die from Covid. They all missed the mark 10x. Some newspapers like Guardian predicted 20 years ago that London would be under water by 2010 (Internet remembers).
Instead, we suspended our democracy because we thought that politicians are idiots and non elected scientists should lead because of their expertise. No one asked on their accountability in case they were wrong. This movie does not challenge the official narrative, it actually amplifies it. This is basically a US propaganda. It is especially bad US propaganda as other countries are portrayed as idiots. In case of a large asteroids, all governments would work together and, even though US would, as always, try to lead the efforts, it would definitely not be the only one capable of doing something.
Also, that dig on Apple (new OS and cell phone presentations that are larger-than-life), mixing data collection with life altering decisions has completely missed the mark. Apple sells data privacy and Apple, AFAIK, has no space faring and mining aspirations. Tesla does, but they are not in the business of collecting data. We have an issue with corporate oligarchs, but these are the same kind of people that this movie actually defends, although accidentally (again, sic!).
The last thing is that, while actors perform flawlessly, the funniest thing is that the main star is DiCaprio, climate activist who has carbon footprint of a smaller African state, mainly to drive his girlfriends on a private island for swimming, drinking coctails and having fun while preaching how we should return to the Dark Age.
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