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Meanwhile, the public is divided between those who trust the science and those who call the comet a hoax-between realists who implore their neighbors to look up at the comet and acknowledge the looming menace, and denialists whose slogan lends the movie its title. When the President finds it politically expedient to do so, she mounts a mission to deflect the comet, exactly as the best science recommends-and then, at the urging of a tech billionaire named Peter Isherwell ( Mark Rylance), she cancels the mission and lets Peter attempt to harvest an untold fortune in rare-earth minerals from the comet instead. Kate and Randall talk to journalists from the New York Herald (its logo uses the same typeface as the Times) and go on a morning talk show, where they’re admonished to “keep it light.” Amid the quippy chat of the hosts, Jack ( Tyler Perry) and Brie ( Cate Blanchett), Kate and Randall’s apocalyptic warnings are brushed aside until Kate starts yelling on the air, making enemies of the hosts and becoming a derided social-media meme. When President Orlean treats the evidence and the three scientists dismissively, they go public with the news that the world is about to end. Her political party isn’t specified (nobody’s is-there’s no reference to real-world politics in the film) but her actions resemble those of Donald Trump: she nominates a Supreme Court Justice of dubious qualification and sexual scandal, falsifies scientific data to seek advantage in the midterm elections, and leaves an underling’s public racist remarks unchallenged. Teddy Oglethorpe (Rob Morgan), the head of the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (a real federal bureau, as a supertitle informs viewers), who rushes them to the White House to deliver the news in person to the President, Janie Orlean ( Meryl Streep). They reach out to NASA and are put in touch with Dr. Randall Mindy ( Leonardo DiCaprio), and they calculate that it will strike in a mere six months. The comet is discovered by Kate Dibiasky ( Jennifer Lawrence), a graduate student in astronomy at Michigan State its trajectory toward Earth is discovered by her adviser, Dr.
It’s also a movie about the blighted mediasphere-yet, even with the best of intentions, the movie only adds to the blight. It’s a raucous comedy in which a tale built of near-plausible elements is told by way of exaggerated character traits, absurd situations, and high-wattage star performances.
“Don’t Look Up,” for the record, tells the story of the discovery of a huge comet that’s heading for a direct strike on Earth that would end life on the planet the degraded journalistic environment that trivializes the discovery and minimizes the danger and the feckless President whose self-interested blunders allow the comet to strike, catastrophically. Cleverness exhausts itself in a single glint and then repeats itself to infinity. The difference is that wit is multifaceted, like a gem that, however small, offers different glimmers at different angles. Adam McKay’s satire “Don’t Look Up” is a clever film that’s short on wit.
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