Don’t Look Up (Netflix)

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I watched this last night and can’t stop mulling it over.

It’s received mixed reviews but I loved it. Apparently it was written before the pandemic and was originally an allegory about global warming but they made edits based on recent times during the pandemic. Some of it hits quite close to home tbh.

We watched it last night. I found it quite disturbing, while OH loved it, found it hilarious. For me it was too close to the bone, especially with the current political climate.

At the start of the film it says 'based on a true story' but it's the characters that are the 'true story' part not the plot itself. I read a brilliant article interviewing the director (can't find it to link) that broke down the characters into who they were based on.

Jennifer Lawrence - Greta, especially her anger when nobody will listen to the science.
Her parents - people who are happy for coal mines etc to be reopened as it creates jobs.
Mark Ryan - an obvious combo of Bezos, Zuckerberg and Musk.
Morning TV hosts - morning TV hosts who always sugar coat bad news.
Meryl Streep - Trump
Jonah Hill - the Trump children, all given roles they were vastly unqualified for, drug use etc.
Ariane Grande - herself, her relationships are often make the headlines over climate change news.
The concert - the covid concert
Meryl wearing her red cap - trump again
Leo - all the scientists that nobody listens to.
The nasa lady - everyone who had to fall on their sword and resign for trump.

*Rylance

I read a brilliant article interviewing the director (can't find it to link) that broke down the characters into who they were based on.

They were so heavily marked as who they were supposed to be, without even a hint of subtlety, that an article setting it out isn't needed.

There's a good interview with Brian Cox about it on YouTube.

I thought Meryl Street was brilliant.

Streep. Autocorrect!

Watching it the same day the news came out about how many more billions musk bezos gates et al made this year makes me hate them even more.

Why do we put up with these oligarchs ruling us??

Suitable for 2 x 15 y/o and q x 17 y /o?
Caveat, 1 of each age group is from a very religious family & 'not allowed to watch Dr Who or Harry Potter' ?

There’s a fair old bit of swearing in it. There is a religious character in it but that’s quite a touching moment.

There’s no witches and wizards or aliens. It’s kind of ‘realistic’.

52andblue there is scene where two characters sleep together. I can’t remember how much is actually seen, think it is implied

Thanks x

I watched it last night. It's not often nowadays that I give my full attention to a film for the full duration (this one is 2hrs 18mins) but Don't Look Up kept me watching to the very end - and I mean the absolute end, all the way through the credits to the final add-on scene.

Basically, I loved it. Definitely one of the best films I've seen in the past couple of years.

The depiction of how shallow our society has become was both funny and chilling in equal measure. A brilliant piece of satire and a disturbing look at how modern lifestyles and the utter trivia that seem so vital to our lives have blinded us to the elephant in the room.

It's a 10/10 from me.

Mark Rylance did a brilliant job in this film, I hated his character so much I wanted to punch him in the face, but then I feel the same about Elon Musk so that makes sense.

It's so good. If I like a film I usually rewatch it a year or so on, but this one I'm tempted to rewatch tonight

I loved it - great satire! I thought the climate change allegory was glaringly obvious and as someone else said up thread, if that didn’t get picked up I can see why you may not enjoy the film as much.

The affair wasn’t needed and that was the only bit I didn’t really like.

The tech mogul character was brilliant.

I think the affair was to show how people's behaviour can change when they know they are going to die anyway but also to show that, at the end, what really mattered to him was being with the people he loved and with those who loved him. I think this is the same reason that his wife forgave him. She loved him and wanted to be with the people she loved too. Maybe the prediction that he would die alone was made him realise what he really wanted, what really mattered and what was truly important to him.

He changed his behaviour and therefore changed his future. The president did not change her behaviour and therefore was still confronted with her fate.

@wallaceinAnderland Or perhaps to show that algorithms aren't always correct no matter how much they know about someone.

He changed his behaviour and therefore changed his future.

Which would seem to be the whole point of the film. Quite clever really.

[quote HPandTheNeverEndingBedtime]@wallaceinAnderland Or perhaps to show that algorithms aren't always correct no matter how much they know about someone.[/quote]
I took it to show that changing to the data changes the outcome and we have the ability to do that.

It was probably the only optimistic message in the film and was pretty subtle in comparison.

@noblegiraffe

He changed his behaviour and therefore changed his future.

Which would seem to be the whole point of the film. Quite clever really.

Yes,. I think this is message that we are supposed to get.

I think the film perfectly summed up how utterly fucked us little people are if this ever happened.

And then you remember that it is happening.

I identified very much with the Jennifer Lawrence character Kate Dibiasky.

"Ignore these unprecedentedly high covid cases because omicron is so mild it's basically a vaccine!/"Don't look up, the comet's going to create jobs!"

There's a reason why disaster movies so often begin with the government ignoring the scientists.

On the optimism front - it wasn't a sudden shock event with no chance to do anything about it.

Science saw it coming, and they had the time, and the know how to avert the disaster.

That's a positive.

We have the chance to make different choices - with covid, with climate change.

We don't have to listen to the people lying to us.