Meryl Streep’s President Orlean Influences So here are all the winks, allusions, and implications we caught on our first viewing. Indeed, the movie is technically a fictional story, just as it’s supposedly a comedy, but the fact that there are echoes of the real world in each larger than life cartoon character allows it to play differently. While McKay wrote and began preparing this project before COVID, it all lands a little more horrifyingly now… not least of all because the film’s most caricatured personalities all have the haze of truth around them. ![]() The film is clearly meant to be a parable about humanity’s inability to face the hard truths of the existential threat posed by climate change in the last 40 years, but it also arrives deep into the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic (and new emergence of the Omicron variant). That’s the bleak vibe and pitch black humor at work throughout Don’t Look Up, a passionate, strident, and intentionally abrasive dramedy which takes a page out of Stanley Kubrick and laughs at the end of the world. At least they’re getting a break from trying to force reality into those people’s thick skulls. ![]() Randall Mindy and Jennifer Lawrence’s PhD candidate Kate Dibiasky sit down to dinner with family, friends, and even a new fiancé, before the comet strikes. This was supposed to be a comedy, right? That’s what the marketing and 1960s-inspired opening title cards suggest for Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up, and yet one might think the happiest moment in the whole thing is when Leonardo DiCaprio’s Dr. ![]() The following includes major Don’t Look Up spoilers.
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