Don't Look Up (2021) Review: When the End of the World Becomes Just Another Headline
Don't Look Up (2021) movie poster. Source: Netflix. Used for review and commentary purposes. What if scientists discovered that the world was about to end, but the hardest part was getting people to care? Don't Look Up (2021), written and directed by Adam McKay, takes this frightening idea and turns it into a dark comedy about science, politics, television, social media, and the strange ways people react to bad news. Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence play two astronomers who discover a comet heading directly toward Earth. That sounds like the beginning of a traditional disaster movie, but Don't Look Up is interested in something very different. The real danger is not only the comet. It is distraction, denial, ambition, and the difficulty of making people pay attent...