“Don’t Look Up” may be one of the most ambitious native movies ever made by Netflix. It is a comedy full of black humor.
Netflix officially introduced it as follows: Astronomy graduate students Kate Dibiasky (played by Jennifer Lawrence) and Randall Mindy (played by Leonardo DiCaprio), two professors, discovered a comet orbiting in the solar system.
This huge rock hit the earth directly, but the problem is that no one really cares.
It took a long time to warn humans that there is a devastating planet the size of Mount Everest about to hit the earth, and it is really not easy to explore the truth.
In this era of social media conspiracy theories flying all over, they went to the media, even met the President of the United States through relationships, and even talk shows in the morning, but no one cared what they said.
The comet is about to hit the earth in six months, but they have to manipulate a 24-hour news station to expose it before it’s too late, or let the public who have long been addicted to social media understand this fact.
This seems like an impossible task like comic comics.
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“Don’t Look Up” is actually a very sad comedy. It was originally a perfect opportunity for Leonardo DiCaprio to discuss his long-term concern about the climate crisis theme through this film. It seems that the whole story is going to criticize human beings. The cause of the earth’s crisis.
But its story uses absurd, confusing and complicated ways to highlight that human beings have no decision-making and lack of action to solve the immediate problems.
“Don’t Look Up” made many people laugh from the beginning to the end, because the success story of all funny movies is ridiculous and stupid enough to go against common sense.
In particular, apart from letting Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio challenge scientists, the other stupid and greedy politicians and media anchors are all big stars.
We have sorted out a few highlights, don’t miss them when you watch them.
Look at the end of the world from another angle
We have become accustomed to seeing stories about “the end of the world” as requiring seriousness and epic feelings.
There will be people in Hollywood movies like Bruce Willis in the movie “Armageddon” who sacrificed their lives to save the entire planet.
Then humanity is so noble, everyone will take the necessary measures without hesitation to ensure the survival of mankind.
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Funny but more real political figures
In the movie, you won’t see heroes in great, old-fashioned action movies climbing on a space shuttle to face a huge asteroid that will collide with the earth, because the protagonist is a group of people who are incapable or don’t want to face the facts. politician.
This actually happens over and over again in the history we see.
In the past two years alone, the performance of the Afghan government since the collapse of the Afghan government and the pandemic has been that the tragedy of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine may one day be like the “Chernobyl” filmed by HBO.
It’s just that “Chernobyl” seems too heavy. To understand the faces of politicians around the world, a “Don’t Look Up” is enough. It can make the audience understand the reality and make the audience laugh.
“Don’t Look Up” is a tangible movie with a lot of black humor. The world no longer needs another apocalypse.
A true but easy explanation of the climate change crisis
“Don’t Look Up” is an excellent metaphor for the current major issue of climate change.
If we don’t act now, make better decisions, and take this issue seriously, what will happen to our next generation?
But contemporary society lacks a more popular way to let people understand this.
The “Don’t Look Up” comedy tone helps us understand this crisis more easily. It makes the understanding process more interesting, but it shows that we are indeed part of a vicious circle without preaching.
This film also truly reflects the appearance of contemporary human life, and why hundreds of people all over the world take to the streets to fight the wrong decisions of government agencies, but they are completely ignored and even become objects of ridicule .
So what this movie wants to do is to avoid one day when humans need to save us great heroes at the last moment (for example, Milla Jolavic in “The Fifth Element” or Bruce Wei in “The End of the World” profit).
Although “Don’t Look Up” may make us worry about this matter, sometimes we need a little time to digest the facts before we can take necessary actions.
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