My review of "Don't Look Up" on IMDB. Spoilers ahead.
Don't Look Up (2021)
2/10
Smug doomsday satire skewers Big Tech and "science deniers"
6 January 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Before Covid, former Saturday Night live head writer Adam McKay had already written his doomsday satire Don't Look Up based on the usual tropes linking a predatory elite to a group usually referred to as--in the parlance of days gone by--"robber barons."
Now it appears that McKay sees "Big Tech" as a new (updated) elite embodied by the character of Peter Isherwell (Mark Rylance) billionaire CEO of the giant tech conglomerate BASH.
If the super-rich were the main objects of McKay's wrath, he also was determined to get his digs in at some less important adversaries including climate change deniers along with all the vacuous adherents of addictive social media platforms.
Initially it appears the "comet" stood for climate change in the original script. But now McKay needed to acknowledge there was a far more scary and effective narrative that posed an immediate threat to humanity and that of course was the "virus." Credit was now due to the pundits who saved progressive politics from an existential threat with their new mantra: "the science."
How ironic that the giant killer comet would now be reduced to millions of sub-microscopic particles. The comparison did not seem accurate. On one hand the decimation of earth by a comet is quantifiable-after all it already happened when the dinosaurs were wiped out. But a pandemic wiping out all humanity? No evidence of that appears at the current time despite the constant dire warnings from mainstream media and social media platforms.
It's Leonardo DiCaprio who gets to play the part of the smug, self-righteous astronomy professor Dr. Randall Mindy, insisting that only his "science" is right because it's "peer-reviewed" (just like pharmaceutical companies conducting internal "reviews" of their own products that may cause injury).
Along with Ph. D. student Kate Diabasky (Jennifer Lawrence)--who discovered the comet in the first place--both she and Mindy inform us what will happen if we don't "trust the science." Of course at film's end earth is destroyed because no one listened to these "brilliant" pundits who believe that only their computer projections are the right ones.
While it appears that McKay likens the administration of President Janie Orlean (Meryl Streep) to right wing ideologues, Streep's character is reduced to a cheap power-hungry buffoon, who ends up compromised by a sex scandal of her own making (she's discovered texting nude photos).
What's more she's part of that vacuous social media crowd who minimizes Mindy's dire warnings as she fears concentrating on more "in depth" ideas will negatively impact the mid-term elections.
McKay proffers up more cheap digs when he has President Orlean send up a caricature of a flag-waving racist and bigot vet in a suicide mission to deflect the comet from its path.
But in the only interesting plot twist in the film, tech billionaire Isherwood, concludes that his "non-peer-reviewed science" (as Dr. Mindy puts it) will be able to break the comet up in pieces and his company will mine the valuable metals from the comet fragments once they crash into the ocean. So the original mission is aborted and President Orlean (beholden to tech as they have bankrolled her) greenlights Isherwood's plan.
So what exactly is wrong with McKay's picture of the "robber barons" such as Isherwood aligning with President Orelan's administration? Well it's a tad bit anachronistic. After all today there is another party in power with a "progressive" ideology that is in lock step with both Big Tech and pharmaceutical companies making trillions at the expense of the "little guy."
The only good thing in all of Don't Look Up is McKay's portrait of Isherwood. Mark Rylance steals the show as the affected effete billionaire who delightfully escapes an exploding earth and temporarily saves the cryogenically frozen president and her minions after finally arriving at a paradise-like planet.
McKay seems to have some awareness of the danger of Big Tech setting up one big surveillance state but what about the dangers of censorship from the social media platforms? McKay's script promotes the idea that only one political party pretty much has a monopoly on virtue, insight and knowledge. That's why introducing a duplicitous media personality such as Brie Evantee (Cate Blanchett), who Dr. Mindy is temporarily seduced by until seeing the error of his ways, packs little punch--since both parties on the left and the right-have been guilty of using the media to their advantage.
Don't Look up manages to not only encapsulate the problem with our times but promotes it: the reliance on experts which is used to justify the proliferation of rigid dogma and ideology through unchecked force.
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My review of "Don't Look Up" on IMDB. Spoilers ahead.
Don't Look Up (2021)
2/10
Smug doomsday satire skewers Big Tech and "science deniers"
6 January 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Before Covid, former Saturday Night live head writer Adam McKay had already written his doomsday satire Don't Look Up based on the usual tropes linking a predatory elite to a group usually referred to as--in the parlance of days gone by--"robber barons."
Now it appears that McKay sees "Big Tech" as a new (updated) elite embodied by the character of Peter Isherwell (Mark Rylance) billionaire CEO of the giant tech conglomerate BASH.
If the super-rich were the main objects of McKay's wrath, he also was determined to get his digs in at some less important adversaries including climate change deniers along with all the vacuous adherents of addictive social media platforms.
Initially it appears the "comet" stood for climate change in the original script. But now McKay needed to acknowledge there was a far more scary and effective narrative that posed an immediate threat to humanity and that of course was the "virus." Credit was now due to the pundits who saved progressive politics from an existential threat with their new mantra: "the science."
How ironic that the giant killer comet would now be reduced to millions of sub-microscopic particles. The comparison did not seem accurate. On one hand the decimation of earth by a comet is quantifiable-after all it already happened when the dinosaurs were wiped out. But a pandemic wiping out all humanity? No evidence of that appears at the current time despite the constant dire warnings from mainstream media and social media platforms.
It's Leonardo DiCaprio who gets to play the part of the smug, self-righteous astronomy professor Dr. Randall Mindy, insisting that only his "science" is right because it's "peer-reviewed" (just like pharmaceutical companies conducting internal "reviews" of their own products that may cause injury).
Along with Ph. D. student Kate Diabasky (Jennifer Lawrence)--who discovered the comet in the first place--both she and Mindy inform us what will happen if we don't "trust the science." Of course at film's end earth is destroyed because no one listened to these "brilliant" pundits who believe that only their computer projections are the right ones.
While it appears that McKay likens the administration of President Janie Orlean (Meryl Streep) to right wing ideologues, Streep's character is reduced to a cheap power-hungry buffoon, who ends up compromised by a sex scandal of her own making (she's discovered texting nude photos).
What's more she's part of that vacuous social media crowd who minimizes Mindy's dire warnings as she fears concentrating on more "in depth" ideas will negatively impact the mid-term elections.
McKay proffers up more cheap digs when he has President Orlean send up a caricature of a flag-waving racist and bigot vet in a suicide mission to deflect the comet from its path.
But in the only interesting plot twist in the film, tech billionaire Isherwood, concludes that his "non-peer-reviewed science" (as Dr. Mindy puts it) will be able to break the comet up in pieces and his company will mine the valuable metals from the comet fragments once they crash into the ocean. So the original mission is aborted and President Orlean (beholden to tech as they have bankrolled her) greenlights Isherwood's plan.
So what exactly is wrong with McKay's picture of the "robber barons" such as Isherwood aligning with President Orelan's administration? Well it's a tad bit anachronistic. After all today there is another party in power with a "progressive" ideology that is in lock step with both Big Tech and pharmaceutical companies making trillions at the expense of the "little guy."
The only good thing in all of Don't Look Up is McKay's portrait of Isherwood. Mark Rylance steals the show as the affected effete billionaire who delightfully escapes an exploding earth and temporarily saves the cryogenically frozen president and her minions after finally arriving at a paradise-like planet.
McKay seems to have some awareness of the danger of Big Tech setting up one big surveillance state but what about the dangers of censorship from the social media platforms? McKay's script promotes the idea that only one political party pretty much has a monopoly on virtue, insight and knowledge. That's why introducing a duplicitous media personality such as Brie Evantee (Cate Blanchett), who Dr. Mindy is temporarily seduced by until seeing the error of his ways, packs little punch--since both parties on the left and the right-have been guilty of using the media to their advantage.
Don't Look up manages to not only encapsulate the problem with our times but promotes it: the reliance on experts which is used to justify the proliferation of rigid dogma and ideology through unchecked force.
Filipe, tudo bem?
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Artigos importantes:
(https://www.hartgroup.org/press-release/)
https://tribunanacional.com.br/noticia/2629/mortes-de-criancas-aumentam-44-apos-vacinas-no-reino-unido-mostram-dados
https://brasilsemmedo.com/especialista-que-analisou-dados-do-sus-se-diz-surpreso-com-numero-de-mortes-de-vacinados/
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/unprecedented-deaths-in-indiana-for
Vídeo para assistir quando tiver tempo: https://rumble.com/vrg0m2-as-inoculaes-pfizer-fazem-mais-mal-do-que-bem-anlise-do-estudo-clnico.html
Se você conseguir trazer esse levantamento para as idades menos atingidas pelo vírus (as 5 faixas etárias de menos de 40 anos), teremos uma prova cabal do impacto da vacinação.