Don't Look Up

Right, so what if we've been looking in the wrong directions? We've always been told, right, look up, look up, you know, space, you know, look at this, look at that.

There was even a movie called Don't Look Up, like literally.

You know what I mean? They're always scaring us into, oh, there's going to be solar flash, or there's going to be asteroid coming, or, you know, whatever.

Look up, look up.

What it does establish is that there's a real tradition.

real underground ecosystems real geological mysteries and unanswered questions about some modern observations so here's the question i like to leave with everyone what if the most extraordinary discovery about intelligent life isn't waiting somewhere in space what if it's waiting somewhere on earth And if there is someone else down there, maybe we're being upstairs making all the noise this whole time.

So... yeah that is uh yeah that is the question we have tonight you know uh are they making us look up there you know look at this oh you know they even have a movie saying you know don't look up because whenever they say not to do something that's the first thing we're gonna do they know that they they you know what i mean so you know we're all looking up oh the aliens are coming or you know this that and the other thing it turns out it was all underneath us this whole freaking time what do you guys think leave us some comments down below robert are you still with us

yes yes i am

Yeah, it's trying to do so much in a short space of time that nothing quite gets fully fleshed out.

No, and that's why I wonder if it's almost like a TV show, you know? I watched Don't Look Up, and it made me obviously think that Don't Look Up and Idiocracy would be a terrifying double bill, but...

this could fit within that.

And it's

sort of almost, not in the kind of, in the absurdist of it, right? The absurdist that, obviously both Idiocracy and Don't Look Up are much more terrifying dystopias, right? Like those are dystopias and realities.

But I feel like, yeah, what is, even when in the film, I don't feel like there's a lot of clarification about what the hunt is for money, right? Right.

And I understand, I know the world because I've read a bit about it, but I don't really necessarily feel like that all comes through in the, you know, you've got like the pleasure center and we're not really clear on why his parents are stuck.

And then it was followed a few months later by the full-length version that was released in sort of our house cinemas.

And so I think we seem to be entering a sort of stage in the mainstream culture where, I mean, I don't know if there's anything to do with because of the divisive nature of the culture wars or not, but when we do ever have satire or political messaging in films, it's very, very sort of bombastic, right? I think recently the new film Digger, for example, another film recently, Don't Look Up, which both kind of, reactions to the climate crisis but in that respect um and there's nothing wrong with those films i think they're much they're much in a sort of spirit or a certain kind of maybe american cinema like you know dr strange love and things like that i mean actually i i quite enjoy but i also think in this respect that um the more kind of grassroots approach and the more dialectical approach that we see and samoa dachi's most successful work i think this asks questions um rather than making bold statements.

And I think that also has a lot of potential for today, particularly today when we're living in such a culturally divided world because of all these cultural wars and stuff we're living through.

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