Don't Look Up

I thought it was a good cutting satirical parody of a broken American society and how it will contribute to the destruction of the planet. 

They covered a lot of issues. 

• The ratings based Media (thinly disguised Fox and Friends). 
• Laura Ingraham - Fox News (played by Cate Blanchett). 
• Cancel Culture. 
• Celebrity Worship. 
• Unregulated free-market Capitalism 
• Ad-Hominem character assassinations. 
• The corrupt Executive branch of the US Government. 
• Conspiracy theorists. 
• Tump (played by Meryl Streep). 
• Misinformation. 
• Zuckerberg/Bezos/Cook/Musk (All played by Peter Isherwood). 
• Corporate power, control and exploitation. 
• Wealth disparity. 
• Fake News. 
• Materialism. 
• Social Media empires. 
• Partisan Identity Politics. 
• Republican rallies. 
• Anti-Science. 
• Apathy about the future of the planet. 

Religion seemed to come out of it only slightly damaged but only because of it’s total irrelevance. 

The only thing that was a bit far fetched was when the Republicans at the rally realised they’d been lied to by their president... That stretched credibility a little too much. 

Much better than the Idiocracy documentary of 2006 and far more poignant. 

This is definitely an important film designed to make people feel uncomfortable. 

I suspect in 50 years time, we'll look back at this movie and face-palm in shame.

Greta will love it.