Why are liberal DontLookUp superfans attacking film critics?
, are categorizing anyone—but mainly journalists—who criticized the movie as indifferent to the threat of climate change or, more extremely, as climate change deniers., the movie follows two scientists, played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, on a quest to inform the public about a fast-approaching comet that would wipe out the Earth.
While McKay rightfully takes aim at people in power, his two-hour-long analogy ignores a global movement of pro-science, environmental activists, and laypeople who would most certainly mobilize around this scenario, including journalists who would aggressively report on it. Instead, the media is broadly portrayed as incompetent and uninterested in the safety of the public.
By McKay’s analysis, there are very few human beings on Earth—McKay is obviously one of them—who are smart enough to act in their own interests or have the compassion to care about the futures of others.
Despite these complaints, I wasn’t completely turned off by the film, maybe because I’ve grown used to McKay’s didactic overtones over the past five years or was warned on Twitter weeks ahead of time. I found it easier to digest as a mildly funny popcorn movie as opposed to the challenging, cerebral text it wants to be.
This distinction between criticism and marketing can become fuzzy to outsiders when art and journalism are increasingly produced under the same roof. Likewise, an overwhelmingly positiveon Netflix’s editorial arm Tudum quickly began to circulate after McKay’s outburst.
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