The alien invasion is coming from inside the house. A scant two years ago Don’t Look Up presented viewers with a jaundiced look at a present-day America where every commercial and cultural current pushed online and TV audiences deep into denial about the huge asteroid coming to wipe out all life on Earth. The film’s crescendo [light spoilers] features a vocal (and distinctly Fox News-ish) political constituency, supported by a vocal (and distinctly Trumpian) lady president, chanting in borderline delirium that they, and the world, must not look up — that’s just what they want you to do! There’s also a whacked-out version of Elon Musk crossed with Marshall Herff Applewhite, Jr., a.k.a. Do, the Heaven’s Gate cult leader of Hale-Bopp fame, whose think-big fix for the asteroid problem falls short, and whose allies in government, it intriguingly seems, sabotage the Russian-Chinese effort to sort out the unwanted visitor from…
Don’t Look Down
A scant two years ago Don’t Look Up presented viewers with a jaundiced look at a present-day America where every commercial and cultural current pushed online and TV audiences deep into denial about the huge asteroid coming to wipe out all life on Earth. 2023’s live-action spectacular features a synced-up information-management complex insisting we do look up. What don’t they want us to see down below?
Lots more where that came from.
