
Don't Look Up2021
Jan 2, 2022 · imported from Letterboxd
Only Adam McKay could have made a dark comedy film on saving the planet and metaphorically telling bureaucrats doesn’t care about climate change or anything that is or will be harming our planet in future. Also tipping his hat against ignorant media. But the thing with dark comedy, especially in a film like this where it’s telling much more than just a spoof comedy, it has thin line between “not Taking it seriously” or “Understand the message hidden between the parody”. It’s a risk that is taken by Adam here that has understandably given him a divisive response. I am towards the positive side and I enjoyed it every bit. Adam has got this knack of putting his point across even in a film where it almost feels like a parody or precisely a dark comedy. In “Big short” it was about financial crisis that really happened yet Adam managed it to put across joyfully and made it knowledgeable too. In “Don’t look up” the rhythm is similar, only that it’s fictional this time. So he got much more to play with and some of it may not have come out very well but most of it was funny yet alarmingly reflection of real world we live in and made me feel in the end this was an important film to watch. I REPEAT Only Adam McKay could have done this.