Don’t Look Up
December 28, 2021
By NZB3
New release: ‘Don’t Look Up’ now on Netflix. Yes, The Guardian review is right that director Adam McKay goes on a self-indulgent smug Victimhood Culture parade. That probably resonates with a certain set such as the Hollywood cast acting the movie or, one would have thought, The Guardian. Not so much with the old Conformity such as the right or alt-right nor with the next Conformity to come. McKay has, in this way, ensured his film is enmeshed with the current Woke mainstream rather than making a classic movie to be re-enjoyed in future years.
It’s a Hollywood movie about how mankind (therefore, the USA) responds to an extinction-level event in the form of a comet making earthfall.
“‘Most damningly smug of all is McKay’s idea of reg’lar folks, from Dibiasky’s center-right parents (“We’re in favor of the jobs the comet will create,” they inform her before allowing her in the house) to the veteran tapped to pilot the hail-mary mission in space (Ron Perlman as a racist drunkard who addresses “both kinds” of Indians, “the ones with the elephants and the ones with the bow and arrows”).” – Guardian
Perlman represents an Honor Culture man of action, a doer, sent to destroy the comet. A Boomer. A man. White. Disposable. He’s aping being part of the mainstream by saying silly things about Indians and “the gays” and the mainstream apes their acceptance of his ability to save them by the excuse ‘he’s just of a different generation’. It’s just one of many side-quests that McKay goes on to attack certain groups in the process of handling a serious message. Perhaps having top credits for Michael Chiklis and then cutting his scenes down to 10 seconds is also an attack on white men too?
This is the problem the Guardian is trying to articulate. McKay is trying to make a film about people who ‘look up’ to face a crisis versus those who are occupied with denial or distractions or exploitation of the problem. DiCaprio and Lawrence struggle in their own lives to ‘look up’ as well as to help the world ‘look up’ so they can face and overcome the danger. President Meryl Streep just wants power, Chris Evans makes an action movie to capitalise on what’s trending, Ariana Grande sings a song about it. Cate Blanchett digests the horror into light morning television and tries to control the situation by seducing the scientist she thinks is controlling the situation. They’re all looking away, not looking up. But that’s the problem with McKay’s movie too. Instead of ‘looking up’ at the serious theme of his film he’s distracted by all these side-quest vendettas against the Out Groups he detests. That makes the film ring hypocritical because its storytelling is malintegrated with its serious message.
I do appreciate the films thread of a culture unable to process reality. Instead it processes votes and processes likes and shares and views. The protagonists proceed to seek enough likes and shares and views and votes for saving humanity. Turns out that was a sham too. A turtle-neck IT weirdo appears in the War Room who has no official role but gets the back-stage pass due to campaign contributions. Mark Rylance plays this weirdo very well and his character got to veto all our modern social media democracy just moments before its decision to save the world was implemented. That’s another powerful message about the democracy theater our Statist mainstream thinks it is living in when really a last-minute whisper between Elites decides all.
That main plot was good though realised, unfortunately, via this Victimhood Culture director. He’s like a man given a limousine to drive important people to an important place down a straight road but who cannot help swerving to deliberately hit wildlife along the way and try to turn them into roadkill. The film would have been better served by a man who was willing to keep his eyes on the road; To “Look Up.”
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