Posted on 12/28/2021 2:47:45 AM PST by Kaslin
The rumor that the Netflix film, Don’t Look Up, is an allegory about climate change is true. Writer/director Adam McKay, a self-declared democratic socialist and Bernie fan, has admitted as much. In fact, McKay calls climate change “the biggest story in 66 million years. It’s the biggest story in the history of upright apes.” That much acknowledged, my skeptical friends on the right have found the film much more amusing than those on the left. My only question is whether McKay is Bernie Bro’ enough to have intended that outcome.
Spoiler alert: Don’t Look Up tells the story of a planet-killing comet hurtling towards earth. After watching the first ten minutes of it, I thought it a comedy, a pretty amusing one at that. At Christmas dinner, my Democratic friends assured me it wasn’t a comedy and warned me not to finish it before going to bed. I did anyhow and smiled all the way through to its laugh-out-loud epilogue. Yes, the movie is a comedy. It is scary, I suppose, to those like New York Times reviewer Monohla Dargis who believe that the future of the planet is “too terrifying” to contemplate and its inhabitants “too numb, dumb, [and] powerless” to amuse. “If you weep,” writes Darghis, “it may not be from laughing.”
The Right laughs because they know something the Left does not. In that the movie is about information flow, the Right knows who controls it. In an unusually honest article from February 2021, Time magazine boasted of the “well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information.” This cabal, according to Time, “were not rigging the [2020] election; they were fortifying it.” Sure, whatever.
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So the earth doesn’t die due to global warming, but by a comet that creates so much airborne debris that it is winter for 1000 years???
I watched it there times. Very funny.
I NEVER read the president as a MAGA influenced act. The closest I got was seeing one guy late in the film with a red hat on, but nothing else was close enough to even suggest it was channeling Trump. More like Bill Clinton to me.
Boring because it tries too hard to be satire. Don’t waste your time.
Meryl Streep played a blond president who was clueless and cackled when she laughed...just like Kamela Harris.
I’ll see on Netflix or a pirated download. Whichever comes first. Don’t have much time for movies.
Netflix is all I need. First season of a Spanish language film Barrier (La Valla) is very good, deals with a dictatorship and a pandemic and a world war. You can get dubbed English. Third season of Frontier jumped the shark. This week Kobra Kai (Karate Kid franchise serialized with everyone grown up or gotten old)’s fourth season comes out, and I can’t wait. F is for Family’s series finale was an act of poetry. No news on when Season 2 of Sweet Tooth (pandemic dystopia) is coming out.
The overrated Streep has always failed at comedic roles, so it make sense that she would be funny only when she isn’t trying to be.
Now what is this latest piece of garbage, we were discussing?
The DUmp wants to know why there isn't a plan to deal with this. From the same crowd which depends on Comedy Central for news.
The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election (Time magazine) :::: https://archive.fo/XM5On
I found it to be similar to Idiocracy. The best part was Steep meeting her demise at the end.
It’s amazing Streep actually got a part.
For awhile she was considered a first class jerk.
She called the now-jailed sex offender Harvey Weinstein “a god.”
Judging character is not her strong point.
That’s a keeper.
Thanks!
I saw this movie; it absolutely is a comedy. It’s no great surprise the left doesn’t see the humor because it unmasks their totalitarian bent. Parts of it had me laughing out loud because it was obviously made by leftists with absolutely no self awareness. If you can’t see Hillary in the amoral movie president, you need to put down the bong.
Yes. They do. I chuckled at their hubris.
I read an article that said this was supposed to be a spoof-off of the Trump admin, but with all the Clinton references and photos of the ‘pres’ with bill, etc., it sure seemed more like a dem admin being portrayed.
the first thing laughable was ‘president’ Meryl Streep in long blond Barbie hair - just, no. And her “son” reminds strongly of Hunter Biden the further into the movie one gets, especially with the coke-nose wiping and wild-eying. And the ‘gates’ character? what can one say?
I can see that... the red hats were the attempt. Clinton’s picture in the drawer of the president gave me the sense she was a liberal president.
Lots of miscues on their part.
It is on netflix
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