Modern media BLOG-Reggie Liu

 The film was originally announced to be released before the new crown broke out in 2019. Director Adam Mackay said that the purpose of the film is to call attention to the global climate crisis. However, the outbreak of the new crown and Biden's election have made many ironic points in the film dark and multiple.

 

Perhaps it is because "don't look up" satirizes too many factions and even the public that it has encountered bad reviews in the United States and has a mediocre reputation on foreign scoring websites such as rotten tomatoes.

 

The plot of the film is that astronomy graduate student Kate found a comet several kilometers in diameter, but her mentor Professor Mindy realized through calculation that the comet would hit the earth in six months and lead to the extinction of species all over the earth.

 

However, their discovery has only attracted the attention of the scientific community and a very few people. The president of the United States only cares about the votes, while the capitalists who support the president only care about the minerals on the comet and the stocks of their own companies.

 

In the film, Peter isherwell, the founder of bash company, can even control the president through funds and use big data to monitor everyone's life. This image seems to be a collection of capitalists such as musk, Zuckerberg and jobs. But his actions towards women are the same as Biden's.

Although the film satirizes the political phenomenon of the United States, entertainment, big data, economic supremacy, consensus division and anti intellectualism are all common phenomena in the world in modern society.

 

The world we face today is a world full of uncertainty. The two global cultures of "post truth" and "Populism" have become obstacles to good political governance, while rationality and empathy have increasingly become scarce resources in today's world.

 

Extreme political fanaticism and extreme political indifference are often separated by a line. The "Buddhist system", "laiping nationality", "otaku men and women", the sense of political alienation and low participation have also become a landscape of the contemporary political world.

 

But can we really escape politics? If more and more people are so alienated from politics, is the study of politics meaningful? In Professor Gumble's view, the answer is yes. The appropriate attitude of modern people towards political life should be "between hope and fear".