Don't Look Up on Netflix. A metaphor for politics and COVID

[Binkie The Clown]

I really enjoyed it. Don't miss the funny scene after all the credits run.

It's such a powerful metaphor for politicizing science in exactly the same way the Republicans acted during the entire COVID situation.

[ItsjustMe]

1. I just started to watch it

[mopinko]

2. how do you get dark screen?

didnt know it was available here.

[ItsjustMe]

4. I use Dark Reader

It's a great browser extension, and it's free.

https://darkreader.org/

[mopinko]

5. cool. ty

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

3. Added it to my list...

will watch next week.

[markie]

6. I was just informed

we are watching it tonight... I have a houseguest here that worked on the film so I will get a blow by blow I'm sure

[Delmette2.0]

7. I just finished it!!

I give it a huge thumbs up! And just about to post my own recommendation.

[Ohio Joe]

8. Watched it yesterday...

Very funny, I laughed through the whole thing. Ron Pearlman was a riot.

[Ocelot II]

9. It's very funny, in a dark way.

The message isn't subtle; I don't think it was intended to be. There's some pretty intense satire going on. Meryl Streep is a hilariously and obviously Trumpish president - imagine TFG as a woman, a skinny bottle-blonde with a touch of Cruella DeVille, ratings-obsessed and unable to stop talking. Her chief of staff is her son, a smarmy, obsequious cross between Don Jr. and Jared Kushner. The celebrity- and trivia-obsessed media get a good skewering, too. I think I'll watch it again.

[intrepidity]

10. Thanks for the heads-up on the 3rd ending, after credits. Also, (SPOILER)

Although, is there really a way to 'spoil' this film? But anyway, the ending where you see a cell phone flying through the air with "Congratulations! Your diet is over!"

Does that mean the person was vaporized, or blown to pieces? The app detected the loss of mass? Pretty dark humor there...

[consider_this]

12. Answer

It was the app that the Jennifer Lawrence character was using as her countdown to the impact of the comet. As you saw a displayed at that moment, goal had been achieved.

[intrepidity]

13. Ah thanks

I had to skip through some of the innanity, missed that detail.

[Laffy Kat]

11. I've seen it twice during the last two days.

Once, around 3:00 a.m. this morning, although I kept falling asleep, and just now with my youngest son.

Adam McKay, "The Big Short", directed the film as a metaphorical warning about climate change. It's both funny and sad. It stars several actors I'm frankly burned out on, but everyone did a great job and it turns out the casting was perfect.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

14. Oddly, I believe it was written before COVID.

Though McCay is still spot on.