Don't Look Up
Directed by Adam McKay
Written by Adam McKay, David Sirota
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Timothee Chalamet, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill
Release Date December 24th, 2021
Don’t Look Up is a savage satire that pulls few punches in calling out those who would deny either COVID-19 or climate change. Playing like a modern Doctor Strangelove, the famously anti-war war movie, Don’t Look Up uses clever caricatures of modern politics to criticize and humiliate those who appear prepared to watch the world burn just to protect some ego born version of their political team, one they believe can’t lose no matter what winning might look like, even if it looks like the death of humanity.
Don’t Look Up stars Jennifer Lawrence as Kate Dibiasky, a doctoral candidate in Astrology at Michigan State University. As the film opens, Kate is watching the sky through a massive telescope. Here she spots a large comet that is on a track that is bringing it toward Earth. For a doctoral candidate, it’s a huge find so she immediately contacts her professor, Dr Randall Mindy, played by Leonardo DiCaprio. He begins to do the math on the trajectory of the comet and slowly it dawns on him, the comet is headed directly toward Earth.
Find my full length review at Geeks.Media, linked here.
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