Last evening we watched \u201cDon\u2019t Look Up,\u201d a December 2021 release, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep and Cate Blanchett. It is a disaster movie that is an especially interesting satire on contemporary American society.<\/p>\n
The story line is about an unheralded astronomy professor and his young Ph.D student at Michigan State who discover a giant meteor on track to collide with earth and destroy the planet. As they frantically try to alert the government and authorities, they run into unfathomable denials and political and bureaucratic roadblocks. It is a timely and scary picture of recent political and social behavior in the United States.<\/p>\n
The president and her staff, the military, the media and press, people on the street and business community, all dismiss the threat for political reasons, personal success, profit or simply to an ignorance of the moment. One can\u2019t watch it without thinking of the past five or six years and identify similar real-life examples of the fantasy portrayed on the screen.<\/p>\n
Be sure to watch it. More importantly, think about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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