By Robert Scucci
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Thanks to all the doomspeak that we hear all day, every day in the news, it is difficult to assess exactly how a real event in terms of extinction will be communicated to the masses through the 24/7 news cycle which literally has everyone on board all the time. If I had to venture a supposition, 2021 Don’t look upAn original from Netflix, is about as precise as possible because the general public is so exceeded by the information attack that they receive at one point that I do not think that anyone really cares about an alleged comet who rushes towards the earth because it is just another dark story in the cycle of short stories that can be true or not.
Explore this idea at levels of absurdity with its sense of black humor, Don’t look up Offer a surprising but hilarious overview of how society would react to an imminent and world -end disaster when the powers in place would have no other choice than to admit that they were seated on evidence of an end of the world because they did not think it was a big problem at the time, and that other Fluff stories would be better for assessments.
It starts with a comet
Don’t look up Focus on Kate Dibasky (Jennifer Lawrence) and Doctor Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCAPRI), which both work in the astronomy department of Michigan State University. When Kate, a doctoral candidate at university, discovers a comet, she consults Randall, her teacher, to confirm her trajectory.
Almost immediately, Randall discovers that the comet is heading towards the earth at an alarming rate and will see its impact in about six months. Knowing that they must act quickly to release the news, Randall, Mindy and Dr. Teddy Ogelthorpe (Rob Morgan) of the Planetary Defense Coordination Office organize a meeting with President Janie Orlean (Meryl Streep) and his son, Jason (Jonah Hill), his chief of staff.
In a shocking turn of events, President Orlean deals with the problem as another example of a person looking for his 15 minutes of glory in the form of whipping national hysteria with the discovery of Kate.
Lean about all the tropes of classic disasters, Don’t look up becomes an absolute circus of manipulation of the media, of political double scales and to minimize a real event in terms of future extinction that nobody seems to worry about.
It’s all about notes
Given the possibility of communicating their discovery to the masses by Don’t look upKate and Randall make an appearance on Daily RIPA light and incredibly popular morning talk show, to discover that hosts, Jack Bremmer (Tyler Perry) and Brie Evantee (Cate Blanchett) I want them to minimize the disaster because Doomspeak would be bad for the notes. Frustrated by the fact that no one takes his discovery seriously, Kate has a merger in the air, which makes it the subject of cruel internet memes, while Randall is celebrated for his beauty and his academic charm, which makes him celebrity.
It is only when the news of the case of President Orlean with the candidate for the candidate of the Supreme Court Conlon (Erik Parillo) means that his cycle in the news cycle is the imminent impact of the comet with the earth taken seriously because she desperately needed a big story to cover her scandal in Don’t look up.
Recruit the technological billionaire Peter Isherwell (Mark Rylance) to help orchestrate a Armageddon-The nuclear style of style against the comet, President Orlean decides to rectify the situation, but only until Peter realizes that the comet could be exploited for precious resources.
Meanwhile, the public is divided on the question of whether the comet is a real threat thanks to the duality of the reports involving the show, illustrating the fact that no matter how much you make your applications of news, you do not necessarily get the complete history.
Streaming does not raise on Netflix
Don’t look up is one of those disaster films that is so on your nose, that you cannot help laughing at his ridiculous. But just under his dark sense of humor is a more important story to consider. We are all nourished with an assault of contradictory information via our devices, and at a pace as alarming, it is impossible to verify everything, or even to consider the fact that these stories are not published by thinking of our best interest.
As hilarious as Don’t look up Perhaps it is also a frightening satire because nothing about this film seems unrealistic. Okay, you may have to suspend a good amount of disbelief when you reach his third act, but with regard to the manipulation of the media and the perception of the public with regard to catastrophic end-of-end events, I do not think that the events that take place in this film are too far from reality, given the current state of things.
Don’t look up is an original Netflix and can be broadcast with an active subscription.
