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Don’t Look Up
Bleak, funny, far too real. You should watch it immediately, then share with everyone you know.
I love good satire, I’m there for dark films, and this cast is absolutely killer. The only problem? This film seems less like satirical wit and more like premonition.
The premise is the same as all the big blockbuster flicks you’ve ever heard of: a planet-killing catastrophe is on the way. Discovered by scientists, a threat looms above our heads like the Sword of Damocles, here to cull our egotistic species once and for all.
The scientists reach out to world leaders, to the press, to the very people on the streets… only to find that nobody cares. Wait, what? That’s not how the trope goes!
Unfortunately, this is how reality goes. I think it’s safe to say that it seems silly to think that people could ignore a massive catastrophe looming on the horizon, let alone deride and ridicule those who try to point our awareness toward it. But, sadly, this isn’t fiction. People really have buried their heads in the sand.
For decades, scientific minds have been working out the problem of climate change. We know that the problem exists, we know, roughly, what the effects will be down to specifics that can and will affect your home, no matter how close to the ocean you happen…
