Movie Moles Joe Clement and Jan Haaken discuss the film, "Don't Look Up," a satirical film directed by Adam McKay and featuring a star-studded cast. Enlisting many of the tropes of Hollywood disaster films, Don't Look Up follows a professor of astronomy and his graduate student as they try to mobilize the government to respond to their alarming finding that a comet is hurling toward Earth and on a path to destroy all life on the planet. The comet serves as a metaphor for the climate emergency and the film satirizes media, corporate and governmental complicity in downplaying the severity of the emergency.. Jan and Joe discuss conflicting critical reviews of the film and offer their own takes on how Don't Look Up works as part of a larger genre of disaster films, as well as what it intends to say about disaster capitalism.
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