As the final moments of Don’t Look Up approached, I was grieving. It took me by surprise, I must admit. Undoubtedly, Adam McKay’s latest film is a comedy, his most ridiculous since the long-gone days of Ron Burgundy. But it’s also a disaster film, opening on the discovery of a comet scheduled to collide with Earth and extinguish all life in six short months. What makes Don’t Look Up a comedy is the laughable ways in which this disaster is not overcome. With every inane and awkward punchline comes a new setback. Warnings are ignored or covered up, plans are waylaid or cynically redrawn, human frailties balloon into costly distractions and psychotic delusions. And then, all at once, the impossible becomes the inevitable.In these last minutes, Don’t Look Up kicks away its hysterical scaffolds and reveals the tragedy McKay has been building beneath them all along. Our heroes,...
- 1/3/2022
- MUBI
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