Don't Look Up is a 2021 Netflix sci-fi comedy film directed by Adam McKay and starring Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Blanchett, Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, and Meryl Streep.
Don't Look Up tells the story of Dr. Randall (Leonardo DiCaprio), a professor of astronomy, and his graduate student Kate (Jennifer Lawrence) who have made a surprising discovery that one of the comets orbiting the solar system will crash directly into Earth in 6 months.
When they directly report the world crisis to the president, but they are treated with scorn, in order to let the world know the seriousness of this matter, I hope that through the 24-hour continuous rotation of the news, let everyone stop indulging in mobile phones and look up at the changes in the world!
"Don't Look Up" is ironic, presenting the real-world events of these years in an exaggerated and witty comedic way, in a cinematic way, using Meryl Streep as President Orleans to satirize the former president of the United States.
And the slogan of "don't look up" echoes the US government's negative and arrogant attitude in the face of the epidemic, which in turn leads to the complete loss of control of the epidemic in the United States, just like the end of the movie, they manipulate people's hearts and minds for political shows, and eventually lead to missing the golden time to correct the meteorite impact trajectory, so that human civilization on the earth is destroyed.
"Don't Look Up" satirizes the real days of recent years through the exaggerated theme of the comet hitting the earth, the wonderful attitude of people in the face of various problems and unknown things, and human beings are not only isolated from each other, but also constantly infighting and attacking each other.
The movie is not so much satirizing people now as it is self-deprecating, and skipping the steps of "reflection and reflection", directly choosing to give up the self, blowing up everyone with a huge meteorite, all of them dying together, and giving me all the destruction!
The story of "Don't Look Up" is very well intentioned, and the director's ambition and purpose for this film can be clearly felt, but under the leadership of a group of star-studded Castes, the script is a bit rough, and the director is a little too immersed in this infinitely superior super-satirical comedy, and the characters are not only slightly flat and have no memory points
The story is portrayed ironically on the surface, and it does not take it seriously in a simple way, and when it is time to be serious, it is still a hippie smile, but it is not funny at all.
By the way, is it really necessary for Meryl Streep to perform fully naked, although it is a stand-in to be completely naked, but is it really necessary to shoot her tattoo above her ass, which makes people a bit of a scene.
Don't Look Up is a quite funny movie, see the director will be anger and dissatisfaction through the film's visual to convey, with a variety of high-level black irony humor, to achieve the effect of the alarm, in the integration of exaggerated plot settings and actors exaggerated acting skills, but also let the story of to the climax.
Although the whole film is 138 minutes long and does not clearly convey any important information, at least director Adam McKay shouted at us with all his might, wanting to give the audience a slap in the face, asking us to wake up quickly, stop continuing to be corrupt and selfish, and put down our mobile phones to see the changes in the world now!