![]() ![]() Their warnings are coldly dismissed as they urge self-interested politicians to implement defense measures and loony journalists to report on the impending disaster before it’s too late, only to become viral memes on social media-sort of like how our most vital institutions have failed to adequately address global warming in the interest of capitalism and how today’s kids are more concerned with getting likes on Instagram than the fate of humanity. Thus, it makes sense that McKay, along with author and former Bernie Sanders speechwriter David Sirota, who co-wrote the story, and a slew of liberal pundits, are categorizing anyone-but mainly journalists-who criticized the movie as indifferent to the threat of climate change or, more extremely, as climate change deniers.įor those who haven’t seen Don’t Look Up, the movie follows two scientists, played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, on a quest to inform the public about a fast-approaching comet that would wipe out the Earth. In fact, the main charge against Don’t Look Up’s effectiveness as a satire, as delineated in reviews and across certain parts of Twitter, is the exasperating nature in which it assumes its audience is blissfully ignorant and unconcerned about our globe getting rapidly hotter and, therefore, needs to be enlightened by a heavy-handed allegory. If McKay was ever hoping to see off accusations that he’s one of the more condescending people making movies right now, this declaration certainly doesn’t help. ![]() ‘WHy ArE thEir FacEs so cLoSe ToGether?’” But if you don’t have at least a small ember of anxiety about the climate collapsing (or the US teetering) I’m not sure Don’t Look Up makes any sense. Presumably in response to film critics who found the movie less than satisfying, he tweeted, “Loving all the heated debate about our movie. On Wednesday, director, screenwriter, and producer Adam McKay inserted himself into an ongoing debate on Twitter between critics and more passionate admirers of his latest Netflix film Don’t Look Up, a cautionary tale about our current climate crisis. ![]()
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