Little Plum and Big Devil?
Sweet tea and big cousin?
When Netflix Netflix also began to krypton CP, a krypton can not be.
"Don't Look Up" with a 24K pure gold anti-heaven lineup.
Director Adam McKay, a film genius with a clear idea, won the award and won the soft awards season regulars, representative works "The Big Short", "Vice President", and is also one of the screenwriters of the Marvel blockbuster "Ant-Man" series.
The actor says a few casually.
"Little Plum" Leonardo DiCaprio;
"Big Cousin" Jennifer Lawrence;
"Aunt May" Meryl Streep;
"Big Devil" Kate Blanchett;
"Sweet Tea" Timothy Challemet;
"Captain America" Chris Evans...
So many glittering figures came together and photographed something?
The story is actually quite simple, telling the story of astronomy graduate student Kate (Big Cousin) and her professor Dr. Randall Mindy (Little Plum) discovering a comet orbiting the solar system, and what is even more surprising is that it has been calculated that the comet will collide directly with Earth.
However, no one seems to really care about this impending end of the world.
Kate and Randall Mindy had to do everything they could to tell the world the news, and they even went to the White House and made a series of hilarious plots.
At first glance, the plot is not complicated, although the characters are numerous and the clues are intricate, but the core purpose is only one: to awaken the public and raise their heads.
So why should I recommend this film with a single plot?
It is because in this seemingly simple story, there is a huge ambition of the main creative team - satirizing everything!!!
For this purpose, the film unfolds a sharp satire of black humor, politics, and society on the following aspects and subjects.
Characters involved: Peter Ashwell (Mark Reirance)
There are many satirical and teasing films about social networks and people's addictions, and far away there are David Fincher's "The Social Network";
Recently, Disney's Invincible Destruction King 2;
And this year's new film "Heavenly Spirit Machine".
However, I still think that the satire of this film still has its own unique features.
In the film, the Bash brand mobile phone developed by Peter Ashwell, played by Mark Relance (who won the Oscar for best supporting actor for "Bridge of Spies"), has been favored by people all over the world to buy and grab, and people use Bash to upload their own photos and videos and social activities.
While the Bash Group has expanded its business indefinitely, even associated with the president, Ashwell has a place in the US political conference, directly involved in the design and implementation of space programs such as the dismantling of comets and human escape modules (spaceX is ridiculed here).
I wonder if you senior netizens are familiar with some eyes? Yes, this film is to use this to the current popular many Internet giants, Musk and his SpaceX and so on to make a satire and ridicule, Ashwell's character settings and speech and behavior are more like Jobs, Musk and other technology giants, and even a little Bit of Biden's meaning.
The irony of this film is that people are addicted to the illusory online world brought by Bash, and forget the real, self-concerning, and imminent real crisis, immersed in the virtual world and unable to extricate themselves (the film deliberately uses social media montages as a vehicle for multiple plot twists).
Bash, as a supplier, even proposed the idea of mining minerals from comets to continue to produce mobile phones, which can be described as a profit to death. In the film, Kate's angry scolding seems to say the essence of this absurd behavior:
Kate and Randall only racked their brains and used the Internet for propaganda to finally attract people's attention and make people "look up".
However, due to the stupidity of the human beings themselves and the rigid brains transformed by social media, it is too late to save the world, and the Bash version of "SpaceX" has not succeeded in breaking down the comet, and the earth still has not escaped the fate of being destroyed by the impact.
Characters involved: Famous singer Riley Bina (A-sister), "The Daily Rip" hosts Brie (Kate Blanchett) and Jack (Taylor Perry), the program director, Kate's boyfriend Philip, etc.
Kate and Randall, who had come to the TV station expectantly, were poured cold water as soon as they came in.
The program director does not focus on the facts and the truth itself, but whether these two people can "perform" in the spotlight as the media requires to please the audience and improve ratings.
Before the academic duo, the famous singer Lyle Bina, when asked privately about breaking up with her ex-boyfriend, her reaction was:
However, when asked the same personal emotional questions in the spotlight, when the two hosts asked her to say a few words to her ex-boyfriend in front of the TV, she looked like this:
The duality and camouflage of public figures can be seen.
When it came time for the academic duo to appear on the show, the satire turned to two hosts, Brie and Jack. These two characters can be said to be the culmination of the unhealthy trend of humor and jokes in today's American television media.
When Kate and Professor Randall came to the studio to try to solemnly announce the end of the world to the world, the two seemed to be talking to each other, joking word by word, causing Kate and Randall to be angry, and indirectly making this vital message not widely disseminated.
After the end of the section, the tv program's choreographer was still criticizing the two with ratings and online discussion, and still no one noticed the seriousness of the problem.
Kate's anger was even made into an emoji (probably a joke about the identity of her eldest cousin, meme Tianhou).
And the most jaw-dropping thing is that the host Brie and Professor Randall are still together, and the picture we saw at the beginning of the article appeared, knowing that Randall is already a husband and has two sons who have started a family. The film's criticism of the absurdity of human nature and the casual flow of media people is really wonderful.
At the same time, in terms of satire on the media, Kate's boyfriend Philip, who turned his face and did not recognize people, also made people hate it and itch their teeth. After Kate became popular on the Internet for her anger on tv, Philip broke his emotional history with Kate in pursuit of sales and clicks.
Philip's methods can't help but remind people of the unscrupulous excavation and exposure of Yao Chen and Wang Luodan in the 2012 chen kaige director's work "Search", which also tried to attract the audience's attention.
Whether chinese or foreign, whether it is paparazzi, journalists or hosts, the integrity of media workers is indeed worth exploring.
It's not easy for these two layers of satire to be so deep (thanks, of course, to the fluid, flowing, and sneaky editing), and this third layer is even more breathtaking.
Characters involved: A three-star lieutenant general, President Orleans (Aunt May) and her son and chief of staff Jason (Jonah Hill)
If the first two issues are a general discussion of the common problems existing in the current society, then the third irony point is that the sword is pointed directly at the chaotic American political arena and even the ruling class in the capitalist world order, which can be called the big bourgeoisie, or it can be said to be the bureaucratic bourgeoisie in the United States.
As soon as Kate and Randall entered the White House, they were "oppressed" and "exploited" by this class. A three-star lieutenant general who ate the first serving and drank the first portion actually charged the two people with snacks and mineral water provided free of charge by the White House.
Is the lieutenant general in an important position in the country short of this money?
The answer is clearly no.
But what was his motivation for doing so?
The author speculates that the intention of the screenwriter is to use such a small matter to satirize the deception of American politicians and the ruling class to ignorant ordinary people. By virtue of the hypocritical and ridiculous power in their hands, they have repeatedly deceived the trust of taxpayers and thus satisfied their vain desire for power.
For example, the scandal of the US military in Afghanistan using six million DOLLARs to transport nine sheep, where did the extra money go? Of course, it goes into the pockets of certain politicians. The film uses this lieutenant general's deception to make a clear satire on the abuse of public power and corruption of those in power.
Is it over-interpreted?
Not necessarily, see what the real Power Center President and his son and chief of staff did below (but anyone who is a little familiar with American politics should have guessed which of these two teasing presidents and his daughter, who recently stepped down in the midst of public resentment),
First, the two and NASA staff came to the White House for the first time, hoping to carry out plans to disintegrate the comet, but the president's answer was:
The top class, which always thinks only about its own interests.
The result was also clear, and the president flatly refused to carry out the plan for fear that it would be detrimental to himself in the election period. Kate and Randall came and went.
But what changed the president's mind? Conscience discovery? Regain responsibility? A sense of mission to save the world? None of the above. Still for her own benefit.
The peach-colored photos of the president leaked, provoking public outrage. In order to save her image, she finally decided to implement a rescue plan. If there was no scandal, she would not have paid attention to this "extraterrestrial star".
This is not a "Clash of Heaven and Earth" type of disaster film.
In the first Easter egg, the "elites" who escaped from Earth in escape pods finally land on a planet that seems to be beautiful scenery, oxygen, and abundant water and grass.
However, this seemingly habitable planet also has a potential crisis - ferocious carnivorous beasts. The few remaining humans at the top of the social food chain were eventually attacked by wild beasts.
Do you think the film's political satire ends here?
Non also. There is also a second Easter egg.
The camera returns to the devastated earth, and a person crawls out of a broken wall, who is he?
Remember the one who was left behind by his mother in front of you? That's right, the son of President Hollin, played by Jonah Hill and the white house chief of staff.
After crawling out, he first cried out to the president's mother, who had long been buried in the belly of the beast in the alien planet, and after no one responded, the first thing he did was:
He then continues to call out to his mother like a little kid who has lost his toy, and the movie ends here.
This character seems to have an "aura" and has become the only survivor of the comet crashing into the earth, but the film actually satirizes the object he represents in the final Easter egg, which is actually the most penetrating and to the point, which can be called a stroke of God.
This Easter egg not only carries out the first layer of irony mentioned above, that is, the satire of people's addiction to mobile phones and social networks, but also makes a clever and powerful attack on the ignorance, incompetence, and ignorance of some parts of the American authorities.
This type of person rises to the political arena by virtue of elders in high positions or some nepotism, but this type of person is poor and inactive, hanging on to official positions and doing nothing, and only relies on his "patron" to maintain his position (this can be seen in The Film's several absurd speeches).
Although the film leaves Jason's ending blank, we can still predict that this incompetent pampered relationship chief of staff and the last human in the universe will soon die due to lack of basic survival skills.
At this point, the three layers of irony of this film are all over.
Overall, "Don't Look Up" as a black satirical comedy, whether from the satirical object or satirical technique can be said to complete its basic task perfectly, but also to a certain extent can be thought-provoking, much smarter than the pseudo-documentary "2020 to Die" at the beginning of the year, and the end of the end of the world and the extinction of mankind is more bold than Edgar Wright's "The End of the World", which also jumped out of black comedies and disaster films.
I have to say that at the end of 2021, which is more difficult than the previous year, we can see such a satirical blockbuster that wants to have a card division, a laugh point, a brain hole, and a depth and depth.