As McKay told David Sims, he wrote the story about a planet-killing comet (and our society’s inability to act collectively to stop it) as a climate-change metaphor. That challenge was evident in the making of Don’t Look Up. Has political satire lost its power? Or has reality become so absurd that it’s now beyond parody? Such a delicate balance has made the star-studded Netflix film a polarizing movie.Ĭritics, audiences, and activists have both savaged and praised the movie, and the backlash has highlighted the difficulty of conveying an urgent message with comedy. Adam McKay’s disaster satire Don’t Look Up is many things at once: a parable of our distracted society, a primal scream of a warning, and a broad comedy from the writer/director of Anchorman.
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