This image released by Netflix shows Leonardo DiCaprio, left, and Jennifer Lawrence in "Don't Look Up." That's one of the takeaways from a new study conducted by researchers who set out to determine if today's Hollywood blockbusters are reflective of the current climate crisis. The vast majority of movies failed the "climate reality check" proposed by the authors, who surveyed 250 movies from 2013 to 2022.
Some results were surprising. Movies that at first glance appear to have little overlap with climate or the environment passed the test. "Marriage Story," Noah Baumbach's emotive 2019 drama about the collapse of a relationship, passed the test in part because Adam Driver's character is described as "energy conscious," Schneider-Mayerson said.The 2022 whodunnit "Glass Onion" and the 2019 folk horror movie "Midsommar" were others to pass the test.
Bechdel herself spoke highly of the study's climate test, which she described as "long overdue" in a social media post during this year's Academy Awards season. Bechdel said in an email to The Associated Press that "for a movie set in the present to ignore this existential threat just doesn't make sense anymore" in the age of climate change.
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