Don't Look Up

 Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence play scientists who have discovered a giant comet hurtling towards earth; a comet which will wipe out the entire planet. Meryl Streep plays the president of the United States as a kind of blonde Sarah Palin type figure. Jonah Hill plays her son. When this information is brought to the president, no action is taken until the comet plays well with voters. They hatch a plan to send Ron Perlman into space to destroy the comet like Bruce Willis in Armageddon. At the last moment the mission is aborted because it is discovered the comet contains valuable minerals used in the production of cell phones. A Jeff Bezos character (Mark Rylance) hatches a new plan to break the comet up into little pieces and let it hit the earth. It’s a crazy but believable story which makes it incredibly funny and incredibly sad at the same time. The film could be taken as an analogy for either Covid or the climate crisis. It is an astute observation of this social media world in which we live and it's one of the smartest films you will see this year. It's also one of the funniest. Catch Don't Look Up on Netflix.