"Military Sub-Plane" by L-Detachment
Disasters don't exist just by closing your eyes.
Recently, a movie called "Don't Look Up" has successfully set off a storm in the public opinion field of the United States and even Western countries, and the reason for the controversy of the film is very straightforward and heartfelt, it criticizes the left and right factions in the United States and most of the political entities during the epidemic, and the plot it depicts almost "breaks everyone's defenses".
▲ After watching this movie, in fact, everyone's heart is a bit wavering, bitter and helpless
Seriously, if I had seen this movie before the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, I would have absolutely lost my belief in the plot, and I would even think that this is a "black American film" specially invested by a certain East Asian country that has a good relationship with China and a bitter hatred for the United States.
What is the story of this movie? In this issue, we will talk about and comment on the specific performance of the NEW CROWN pandemic in the United States in the past two years (the following contains "spoilers").
▲ The map of the new crown epidemic in the United States is really "a red country"
In the setting of the story background, this movie is actually somewhat clichéd, and can even be said to be the same apocalyptic background for ten thousand years: "One day in the future, several excellent scientists have discovered a threat that may destroy all mankind, a huge comet is rushing towards the earth at high speed, if no measures are taken, the entire human race and even all the creatures in the world will be wiped out under such a high-speed impact..."
According to the previous experience of watching movies, the next movie plot does not have to think too much, it must be like this:
After confirming the target of the threat, all mankind under the leadership of the US government (of course, there are also many times, the US government directly represents mankind) immediately and efficiently organized, trying to do everything possible to rescue activities, as the plot continues to evolve, a team of seemingly tall rescue plans are buried by various mistakes and mistakes, and then at the moment of a thousand guns, the untamed, unusual protagonist group shines on the scene, into the fog, turns the tide, and saves the entire human race at the last moment...
For example, in the 1996 movie "Independence Day", in the face of a menacing alien army, the world's fighter forces were defeated by the usable enemy when the PRESIDENT personally piloted the fighter plane to "lead the charge".
▲ For a long time, in fact, the world tacitly accepted that the United States will lead the entire human race forward, and this speech in "Independence Day" has also become a classic in film history
In the 1998 movie "The End of the World", the world was saved by an American oil well driller played by Bruce Willis who punched a hole in the comet and blew it up...
▲ The stills of "The End of the World" faced with an apocalyptic disaster, and the United States intervened to save mankind was once recognized as the "only antidote"
However, as a "magic realism realistic film", "Don't Look Up" tells us a story that is really absurd, magical, but real, and it can be said that through the absurd and playful lens language, it completely shattered the image of the savior of the United States in the virtual world in the past...
Ignored warnings
First of all, the warning of not being taken seriously by power, the film's astronomy graduate student Kate DiBiaske (Jennifer Lawrence) and her professor Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) have a surprising discovery: a comet orbiting in the solar system will collide with the Earth in more than 6 months!
▲ In the eyes of normal people, this must be a matter of burning eyebrows
Aware of the danger, the two immediately launched their own network of relations, reported everything they had to the U.S. top management as soon as possible, and expected the U.S. government to immediately launch the relevant plan, calling on the entire United States and even the entire human world to stop the comet and defuse the danger in space, however, a situation that made it difficult for the two to understand occurred.
What seemed to it to be a dangerous situation that burned eyebrows was completely ignored at the top of the US government.
After receiving the early warning from professionals, the top level of the government, who holds all the administrative resources and shoulders an important mission, due to the lack of scientific literacy, cannot even understand the astronomer's situation description...
▲ The president of the United States in the movie
If placed in previous years, such a story script can only be regarded as an absurd black humor. However, today, as long as we think about it, we can say that we "understand everything", often make some confusing remarks, and even ask their people to directly inject disinfectant water into the body of the former US "understanding king" President Trump, such a plot design seems so reasonable.
▲ In China, this kind of behavior, we generally describe as "adults who can do this?" ”
The son of the PRESIDENT in the film is the chief of staff of the US White House (equivalent to the chief of staff of China), and the setting of the presidential son directly serving as a senior White House official is obviously a reflection of the daughter and son-in-law of former US President Trump.
▲ The representative of the "upstart" politician in the movie, the chief of staff of the White House, and the son of the president
In particular, it is worth mentioning that in reality, the daughters and sons-in-law of former US President Trump are even more powerful than the fictional characters in the movie, they are not only senior advisers to the US president, holding the real power of the US government, but also can directly participate in international conferences that only heads of state can participate in under trump's protection, just like a "style of the first ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the United States of America".
▲ In front of Ivanka, the Japanese prime minister, the British prime minister, and the Canadian president can only be reduced to foils
After some difficult communication, the president of the United States and his staff, who barely understood the dangerous situation, were more concerned about the midterm elections that would only come in three weeks, and extremely indifferent to the danger of annihilation that would be staged "in the distant" 6 months...
Even if the professional space agencies in the United States have already stockpiled enough resources and plans for this, they only need to start implementing these plans with one order...
The reason for refusing to take any action and refusing to warn of a disaster is simple: such a negative crisis event will affect the electoral situation of the presidential forces...
▲ The interests of elections are greater than the well-being of the country and even the entire human race, which is not adding fuel to the fire...
Anti-intellectual mass groups
After hitting a wall in the official place, in order to warn the masses as much as possible, the male and female protagonists in the film story can only choose to go on TV to directly face the people to engage in popular science, however, a more absurd scene appears, although they, as experts, constantly emphasize how serious the disasters that mankind will face will be, but they do not pay the slightest attention, and the serious existential crisis is directly drowned in the ridiculous paragraphs...
▲ In the face of the existential crisis, some people chose to be funny, and sadly, it was rehearsed completely according to reality.
Before the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis, most of us must have had a hard time understanding such a plot, after all, in the case of human civilization and their own life and death, how can the people be so anti-intellectual? Is it true that compulsory education does not exist?
However, since the beginning of the new crown epidemic, the willful operation of people in some developed countries to kill epidemic prevention and health experts has repeatedly proved to us this absurd reality: many people can really not take the existential crisis and basic scientific principles seriously, and even reject all knowledge other than their own inherent cognition.
▲This picture shows that at the moment of the epidemic, people in a certain country marched to protest against the new crown vaccine. From our perspective, these protests can only be described as "speechless"
To tell the truth, looking at the anti-epidemic people who have so far opposed vaccination, mask wearing, and isolation, I am really worried that when the greater crisis comes one day, the role that these people can play will probably only be a drag...
Isn't the astronomer forced to burst into tears by the host of the movie the embodiment of Dr. Fauci, an epidemic prevention expert who was forced to be angry by the US senator in reality?
▲ In the movie, astronomers hoarsely appeal to the public to pay attention
▲ In reality, the anger of epidemic prevention experts cannot be said to be exactly the same, but can also be said to be "high-definition reproduction"
For the sake of profit, it can bury the entire human capital group
It was not easy to wait until the president launched the space rescue plan in order to save his image crisis, and saw the dawn of victory. Astronomers bent on saving the planet's homeland immediately bumped into another, more formidable adversary, the American consortium of capital...
▲ The courage to make money in the name of hitting comets, we not only have, but also a lot
Compared with the US government, which can still be urged to some extent, at least can play a role, the US capitalist consortium that "only recognizes money" is simply a BUG-level existence, they look "harmless to people and animals", but they affect everything in the country at all times, and even scientists can't find a way to fight...
Because the asteroid that crashed into the earth contains rich rare earth resources, in the eyes of capitalists, that star immediately changed from "a disaster star that can destroy the earth" to a "lucky star" that can break the "Chinese rare earth monopoly" (daily black China) and make a fortune...
▲Everything can be business
In reality, the crisis of the new crown epidemic that has caused countless ordinary people, wage earners and small shopkeepers to cut wages, unemployment, and even complete bankruptcy, for those big capitalists who hold super-consortiums, has indeed changed from "crisis" to "opportunity", capitalists are crazy harvesting, the wealth of the richest people in the world has achieved unprecedented growth, and their control over the market has not decreased but increased...
▲ It is undeniable that the problem of uneven distribution has been further exacerbated by the new crown epidemic
In order to ensure that they can get rich from the comet mining plan, the capital consortium has made a move to kill the whole world, not only did they forcibly suspend the US own space rescue plan after the rocket launch, but even blew up the Chinese and Russian space rescue plans on the launch site through external intervention, personally destroying all human efforts to save themselves.
▲ Isn't it the rocket U-turn, simple, just have money
▲ In the movie, the behavior of American capitalists blowing up the Sino-Russian launch site is like the attack and throwing pot of China's "zero-clearing policy" during the epidemic
The film sees here, I don't know how everyone feels, I really feel the power of black humor, just want to spit out two sentences This plot is really outrageous, but thinking about it, maybe the reality is more outrageous...
Unlike the usual disaster film at the end, the clichéd plot of being rescued by the protagonist group, this "Don't Look Up" shows us a "more reasonable ending according to logical development".
As the "Comet of Destruction" gradually approached, it was already a star visible to the naked eye, and in the case that the truth of the matter could not be hidden, an even more absurd scene appeared, wasn't the comet really coming? Then I will directly put forward an action slogan of "immunity" to all natural disasters: "Don't look up", as long as you don't look up and can't see the stars, then naturally there is no need to worry about the danger of it falling down...
"No looking up, no danger; no testing, no covid-19." After a thousand years of staging, the story of the ear-covering and bell ringing is still a living script.
▲ Compared with Trump, Brazilian President Bolsonaro's epidemic prevention operation can be described as "out of the original spectrum" and anti-human
The space mining spaceship of the capitalists who had high hopes was indeed destroyed in the comet mining operation, and with the failure of the mining plan, the destruction of mankind directly entered the "countdown" stage, in this stage, according to the general movie routine, there should be a hero of the world "open and hang to save all mankind".
In the end, the comet hit the earth, and human beings became extinct
However, in "Don't Look Up", in the face of the comet that is getting closer and closer, the human race lies directly flat from top to bottom... After knowing the ending, the self-destructive human race began the doomsday carnival mode, they drank, smashed, and even directly opened the open air to have promiscuous bodies, directly turning into grains of cosmic dust at the last moment.
▲ After the emergence of the mutant virus, many countries simply chose the "lying flat" model, anyway, I can't win the virus than lie down and be beaten
Of course, the high-ranking officials and magnates who fooled the people into "not looking up" are not blind to the truth, they have long prepared a way out for themselves - a spaceship equipped with the latest aerospace technology, which can accommodate 2,000 people, at the last moment did not hesitate to abandon the ordinary people who listened to their lies and fled to a new planet in deep space...
▲ The best way not to be deceived is to master scientific knowledge yourself
The same as the last-minute runaway of the magnates in the movie, in reality, the leaders of those countries that advocate "full openness", the medical resources they can get after the infection with the new crown, are far from being comparable to ordinary people, Trump got the new crown, can recover in just a few days with the support of the sky-high medical team, what about ordinary American workers? The two obviously do not end the same way.
In Trump's words, "This is life"
Although disaster is imminent, despite the abundant disaster relief resources, and despite the mature and scientific response plan of the country's experts, under the small calculations of various interest groups, the country has finally been turned into a mess...
▲As a sense of hindsight, it is appropriate
From this perspective, "Don't Look Up" is not so much a science fiction humor film as an anti-epidemic documentary in the United States and even Western countries.
▲ For the United States hundreds of thousands, millions of confirmed cases of new crown increased, the world has actually become numb
This is also the main reason why many Americans are "broken" by the plot of the film, because each of its absurd plots is actually caused by American society, it can be said that everyone is the protagonist of the story, but everyone has no ability to change this disaster, and can only sigh after helplessness, "tired, lie flat, and coexist with the virus."
Outside of movies, it's not just the United States
What should we do in the face of disaster? Compared with Western countries, China's "epidemic prevention" achievements in the face of the new crown epidemic are obviously more significant, and in this "national epidemic", the Chinese people's good qualities of unity, stability and discipline can be said to be the biggest reliance on our epidemic prevention and control work.
However, it is precisely because of this that today, when this "war against the epidemic" has lasted for more than two years, we should cherish the hard-won nature of such a situation, and cherish even more the patience and efforts made by ordinary Chinese people for epidemic prevention, and the tenacity and sacrifice of ordinary people in epidemic prevention work must not be squandered by some irresponsible rash measures.
To be fair, in the recent round of domestic epidemic recurrence, the epidemic prevention measures in some places on the basis of a large number of successful experiences in other cities, still engaged in many angry and resentful improper operations, some bureaucratic, mechanical epidemic prevention measures, in the plot of "Don't Look Up", you can also find some similarities, from this point of view, the black humor of "Don't Look Up" is aimed at the world, if we watch the movie, only stare at the shortcomings of the other side of the ocean, and ignore the shortcomings around us , that would be a little superficial.
The Spring Festival holiday is approaching, and here I sincerely hope that the epidemic prevention and control measures everywhere can be in accordance with the principles of science, precision and humanization, accurate and efficient epidemic prevention, so that you, me, and he in front of the screen can live a safe and peaceful New Year.