Have you seen
this movie? I did it and I loved it!
Summary
Kate Dibiasky,
an astronomy grad student, and her professor Dr. Randall Mindy make an
astounding discovery of a comet orbiting within the solar system. The problem
is that it's on a direct collision course with Earth but no one really seems to
care.The impact event is an allegory for climate change, and the film is a
satire of government and media indifference to the climate crisis. With the
help of Dr. Oglethorpe, Kate and Randall embark on a tour that takes them from the office of an
indifferent President Orlean and her son and Chief of Staff, Jason, to the
airwaves of The Daily Rip, an upbeat morning show hosted by Brie and Jack. With
only six months until the comet makes impact, managing the 24-hour news cycle
and gaining the attention of the social media obsessed public before it's too
late proves shockingly comical.
Characters
There are the
two protagonists, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence and then the others,
including Rob Morgan, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, Cate Blanchett, Tyler Perry,
Mark Rylance, Ariana Grande and Timothée Chalamet. My favorite actor is
definitely Timothée Chalamet but in this film he doesn't play an important
role. Considering the caliber of the
actors who participated in this film, the budget made available to them had to
be very high. Netflix said at the beginning of the work, 75 million dollars
were distributed among the protagonists.
How climate change is linked to
the film
This isn’t a
film about how humanity would respond to a planet-killing comet but it’s a film
about how humanity is responding to planet-killing climate breakdown. We live
in a society in which, despite extraordinarily clear, present, and worsening
climate danger, more than half of Republican members of Congress still say
climate change is a hoax. Leaders say that climate is an “existential threat to
humanity” while simultaneously expanding fossil fuel production; in the
newspapers the climate news is routinely overshadowed by sports and
billionaires sell the absurdist fantasy that humanity can just move to Mars.
I think that
the public in general, and world leaders in particular, underestimate how rapid,
serious and permanent climate and ecological breakdown will be if humanity
fails to mobilize. And there may only be five years before the Amazon
rainforest and a large Antarctic ice sheet pass irreversible tipping points.
Trailer
I'll leave you the trailer of the film here, which in my opinion deserves to be seen. Hope you'll like it!
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