isn’t exactly subtle. The hair is big, the parody obvious, the targets as plentiful as the star-studded cast competing for space – and the planet is about to explode.
Everyone will die. Yet, they can’t convince anyone, least of all the populist, chain-smoking US president, played by Meryl Streep, to take the right course of action.The media is too distracted and everyone else just wants to make money, once the asteroid is found to contain rare earths and minerals.
The film portrays the siren call of unproven “win-win” technology and the toxicity of bothsideism. As in real life, the fight between the researchers and political and economic interests is asymmetric.There’s also much to criticise in a movie that spends so much time being outraged. For one, the metaphor is too simplistic. Global warming is not a single, driverless comet hurtling, unprovoked, toward the Earth.
We struggle to understand climate realities that feel distant in time or space, or that are simply impossible to envisage in the context of what we have experienced.
'Likely Nibiru / Planet-X /soft disclosure ( which is becoming increasingly visible - hence the movies timing ). The movie is directly mocking individuals who are yet to contemplate the unlikeliest of scenarios. If the movie doesn't resonate then you are the one being mocked.'
Telling people they're destructive morons using a metaphor ... they might listen, but i reckon they're just going to dig their heels in even more.
Brilliant movie
I'm still thinking about it and recommending to friends, spoiler I love the scene with Cate B. 'I have two Monets'. Leo D. replies, I just got Mark Hamel to sign my Star Wars poster. Justlookup