Don’t Look Up demonstrates the importance of faith amidst absurd politics
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Warning: Don’t Look Up spoilers ahead. Don’t Look Up is a thinly-veiled comment on the current political moment, where alternative facts dominate the political discourse. It showcases that the time in which we live is one where truth is evasive and named as partisan. The well-funded, star-studded film couldn’t come at a better time. And in its opening week, 111 million viewers agreed (it’s the second-most popular movie debut on Netflix). The premise of the film revolves around two astronomers, Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) and Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) who make media appearances in order to warn the earth of a Mt. Everest-sized comet hurtling toward the planet, ensuring the destruction of the planet. The astronomers are not taken seriously by media professionals or by the President herself. One of them melts down on television and tells the viewers that they will die and the planet will be destroyed. Her warning is gaslit as hysteria, and the show goes on.
Don’t Look Up demonstrates the importance of faith amidst absurd politics
Don’t Look Up demonstrates the importance of…
Don’t Look Up demonstrates the importance of faith amidst absurd politics
Warning: Don’t Look Up spoilers ahead. Don’t Look Up is a thinly-veiled comment on the current political moment, where alternative facts dominate the political discourse. It showcases that the time in which we live is one where truth is evasive and named as partisan. The well-funded, star-studded film couldn’t come at a better time. And in its opening week, 111 million viewers agreed (it’s the second-most popular movie debut on Netflix). The premise of the film revolves around two astronomers, Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) and Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) who make media appearances in order to warn the earth of a Mt. Everest-sized comet hurtling toward the planet, ensuring the destruction of the planet. The astronomers are not taken seriously by media professionals or by the President herself. One of them melts down on television and tells the viewers that they will die and the planet will be destroyed. Her warning is gaslit as hysteria, and the show goes on.