Don’t Look Up
I believe what makes Don’t Look Up one of the best end-of-the-world films is because of the excellent casting, historical references to real-life astronomers, fictional historical characters, previous sci-fi films, actual astrophysics, and the portrayal of how absurd american politics, social media, and fear of death, or worse for the american consumerist, losing their way of life. The film pokes fun at both political parties. Still, it’s the characters played by Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, and Mark Rylance that give such laughable references to the real-life scrotums that are accelerating humanity’s demise. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, there have been memes and confessions aplenty about how people would instead take a zombie invasion or a “celestial body” to impact Earth instead of what we were facing. Don’t Look Up offers a hysterical and sobering rendition of how I’d rather go out because, after all, I am sick of living through historical events!