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Don’t Look Up comes from the mind of Vice and The Big Short director, Adam McKay, whose migration into the rosebush of political satire seems about as unexpected as the 2016 election result that, even 5 years down the line, he cannot seem to stop contesting. In a film that blurs the line so erratically between fantasy and realism, it is often hard to judge where the allegory ends and the television skit begins .
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Documenting the discovery of a 10km wide ‘planet killer’ on its collision course for earth, Don’t Look Up is more apocalyptic science-fiction than McKay’s previous flurry of surprisingly-brilliant biopics.
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However, whereas Cheney’s rise to power or the 2008 financial crisis seemed very much within McKay’s ambit, Don’t Look Up, for better or for worse, delineates the very limits of his comedy stylings and feels more like a compilation of off-cuts from a SNL cold open than a nuanced exposé on the escalating climate crisis.
If anything is to be taken from this film, it’s not that our twitter-frenzied, ostracising, Starbucks-guzzling culture is inherently doomed, but that there are still a few remaining stars and directors in Hollywood, yet to be snatched up by the franchise behemoth, still attempting to produce original adult-oriented fictions. Fronting Don’t Look Up is an ensemble with so many accolades between them that it’s hard not to get lost in their magnificent sheen.
Co-starring in their first production with the Netflix streaming giant is Leonardo DiCaprio as fretful, anxiety-ridden astrologist, Dr. Randal Mindy, and Jennifer Lawrence as his aid and student, Kate Dibiasky .
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It is in moments such as these that McKay reminds us that Don’t Look Up is well and truly an ensemble piece.
Just like the issue it's satirising, everyone is here to play in this comedy-drama but it is a cosmos away from the intelligence and facetiousness of his previous films. Even the tone is blatantly inconsistent. While McKay’s signature cutting style does make for some provoking sequences of mother nature seemingly ‘carrying on’ in the face of adversity, it is nothing in comparison to the Macbethian stylings of Vice and feels more akin to a reality TV show than a doomsday drama.
Part of my critique with Don’t Look Up comes with the real-world catastrophe it seems to be sensationalising.
As a UN climate ambassador, DiCaprio has asserted in several interviews that the film’s narrative is an analogue to the current climate crisis. From the rise of MAGA-hat wearing asteroid deniers to the off-shoring of social security to maladroit billionaire tech-philanthropists, the parallels to current societal contexts and issues are hauntingly uncanny.
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