Under the epidemic, absurd events have emerged in the past two years.
Politicians, media, businessmen, and the masses in crisis are full of anxiety and fear.
Nowadays, people are no longer surprised by all kinds of "riot operations".
Recently, there was a science fiction absurd movie that directly launched the apocalyptic crisis and blackened the American society up and down.
Today, the newspaper sister will talk to you about this movie -
"Don't Look Up"
Just looking at the cast on the poster has made many people shout "luxury".
Earth coccidiscular Leonardo DiCaprio, big cousin Jennifer Lawrence, Aunt Meryl Streep, big devil Kate Blanchett, in addition to sweet tea Timothy Challemet, the United States team Chris Evans, A sister Arianna Grande and other big familiar faces cameos, stars gathered.
The CP combination is also particularly eye-catching.
Little Plum and the Big Devil Rolled the Sheets and exchanged heartfelt words, the Big Cousin and Sweet Tea kissed passionately, and only Netflix dared to play like this.
(Source: Yuanjian Subtitle Group)
The film's director and screenwriter, Adam McKay, who directed "The Big Short" and "Vice President", is particularly good at creating satirical comedies.
This time, he became more sharp and bold, treating an apocalyptic catastrophe as absurd and spicy.
As soon as the film was launched, it triggered a lot of discussion, but word of mouth showed a polarization trend. Some people praise and some people scold.
At present, the film has an IMDb score of 7.3, a Rotten Tomatoes freshness score of 61%, an MTC score of 53, and a Douban score of 7.6.
Interestingly, on Rotten Tomatoes, 55% of professional film critics gave a bad review, while 78% of the general audience gave a positive review.
What exactly makes word-of-mouth diverge here?
Let's walk into this whole absurd "doomsday" story.
Astronomer Kate (Jennifer Lawrence) has discovered a new comet.
Then her teacher Randall (Leonardo DiCaprio) calculates a big event: this huge Comet like Mount Everest is about to crash into The Earth, causing the destruction of the entire planet.
The comet's impact on Earth would be equivalent to a billion Hiroshima atomic bombs, meaning that without interference, humans would have gone extinct like dinosaurs.
The two impatient people could not wait to become "whistleblowers".
When they reported the extermination-level event to NASA, the call was transferred to the Office of Planetary Defense Coordination (a real-life agency founded by NASA in 2016) and then to the Asteroid Research Society.
Eventually, the two were taken to the White House and reported directly to the president.
But left and right, the president just does not show his face, on behalf of the Pentagon general to bring snacks, but still receive! fee! target!
When the two finally meet President Orrin (Meryl Streep) the next day, the president is unimpressed.
After all, this kind of "the end of the world is coming" conference, which is held several times a year, from economic collapse to nuclear leakage, even drought, famine, plague...
And, with midterm elections just around the corner, there's nothing more important than votes.
As for the comet hitting the Earth in 6 months, let's wait and see.
In desperation, Kate and Randall decide to seek the help of the media and go on TV to announce that the world is about to be destroyed.
So they sat in the studio of the hottest "Every Day Revealed" column at the moment.
However, when Kate and Randall told their story, the two hosts not only didn't care, but joked on the spot.
Unable to bear it, Kate left the scene in a hurry.
After the show aired, the audience directly made the clip of Kate's madness into an emoji and played with the terrier wildly.
As for "the end is coming soon", no one cares at all.
Until the scandal broke out by the president himself, she sent a supreme court nominee a photo of her private cell phone, which caused her approval rating to plummet.
The president, who was at the center of public opinion, remembered the forgotten comet.
The comet was about to hit the Earth, and president of the United States, Hollyn, decided to intercept the comet with a nuclear bomb to save all of humanity in an unprecedented way.
Isn't that a great PR tool?
Amid the sound of fireworks, the president won an overwhelming victory in the midterm elections, and everyone guarded the nuclear bomb to save themselves from danger.
Randall was also promoted to chief scientific adviser in the White House, escorting the president's plan.
This obese middle-aged scientist, therefore, got the label of "sexy", and also rolled up the sheets with the female anchor of "Every Day Revealed" and embarked on the peak of her life.
However, at a critical moment, the nuclear bomb turned around.
It turns out that the tech company boss Peter (Mark Reirance) has a crush on the rare resources on the comet, which will be a huge fortune, at least 140 trillion.
And Peter himself, not only a billionaire, but also a big financier behind the president, coughed twice and even the president had to look at his face.
So, at Peter's "suggestion," the president changed his plans to blow up the comet into pieces and then use nanotechnology to exploit rare resources.
What a crazy and inhuman decision it was.
Kate, who was close to collapse, was in a hurry to tell everyone the truth at the bar, triggering a large-scale riot, and then was taken away by the FBI masked, isolated from the outside world, and faced charges of leaking national security secrets.
If you want to return to normal life, you must stop appearing in any public media and stop making any inflammatory statements related to the comet.
In this way, Kate returned to her hometown and became a cashier in the supermarket.
Seeing that the end is coming, Kate completely lets herself go and engages with the young man (Timothy Challemet) who steals alcohol in the supermarket.
Randall, who defected to the president, could no longer open his eyes and speak blindly, and shouted the true words of "the president of the United States is lying" in front of the camera, but no one cared, and then he was taken away by the FBI masked.
Just after a series of farces, the comet is getting closer and closer to Earth. As soon as you look up, you can see the comet's trajectory.
The topic #Heads Up quickly fermented on social networking sites, and people fell into the panic that the end was coming.
To appease the masses, the president launched the #Don't Look Up campaign, calling on everyone to ignore the comet and forget their fears.
In this way, everyone was divided into two camps.
Online scolding, offline fight.
It no longer matters what the truth is, and everyone is insane.
After a series of failed actions by other countries and Peter, the comet finally truly crashed into Earth.
GAME OVER !
Of course, the rich still have their own escape channels, here the sister will not spoil, you go to see for yourself.
In the lower right corner of the poster, there is a line of small print: Based on a real event that may have occurred.
Presumably, everyone has already seen that almost all the characters in this absurd comedy can find innuendo in real life.
The president who is deeply involved in various scandals is simply Trump Bemp.
I put my own son around to work, except to shout at my mother.
For the sake of votes, everything is done.
"Don't look up" is simply the same as Trump's "bleach can kill the new crown virus" .
If you replace the comet with a virus, the movie becomes a reality.
In fact, the director also modified the script precisely because of Trump's crazy words, so that everything ran in a more crazy direction.
In addition, the media that will only succumb to the flow, the capitalists who manipulate the government, are all reproductions of reality.
Not to mention the film's mapping of black riots, racial discrimination, and sexual minority identity, which is spicy.
A passage on the black screen at the beginning of the film directly sets the absurd tone of the whole film.
"I wish I had died peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather, rather than screaming and screaming toward death, like his passengers."
(Jack Handy: American humorist)
In the face of the coronavirus, the film gave the United States a resounding slap in the face, opening up the absurdity and anti-intellectualism behind The Universal Values of the United States.
The good or bad at the film level is no longer concerned.
The opposition between five stars and one star, like "don't look up" and "look up quickly" in the film, tears the audience into two camps.
And the director himself doesn't care about the ratings.
Controversial, that's enough.
If you think things are too magical, think about reality.
"Destroy, hurry!"