don't look up

leonardo di caprio takes on a challenging role in this movie available on Netflix...while the movie itself parlays the glitz glamour and obnoxiousness of news today, i.e., he said she said, it also defines rather cryptically what the pitfalls of instant communication really are. AND...this is the crunch and ultimate killer in this movie: how to tell everybody everything and let a few chumps get us killed. reviewing history of Roman era wouldn't really help here either. While Nero played his fiddle and Rome burned, US President Orleans, played with razor sharp acuity by none other than Meryl Streep (unfortunately she does it too well), brings back the recent Trump years with the kind of guttwisting logic our former Prez was so good at. I.e., if we 'do it this way'...and so on...to the detriment of all souls currently inhabiting this planet. Not to say Trump started the Covid pandemic but we've still got an army of folks who don't believe in being vaccinated. In Don't Look Up there is a comet heading straight towards Earth. Once our President gets onboard with the facts, they quickly become a stew of personal gain and logic goes out the window. DiCaprio plays a righteously outraged astronomer doing a routine, effective, efficient job studying the stars. His colleague and doctoral candidate discovers something unusual and before long there's a bunch of 'em chomping the bit to react to an unavoidable catastrophe. What better time for global alliance? Orleans sees to that with the interface of some cad named Bash who plays it ala Bill Gates...'I got a product'... that will save the world he says... No telling what comes next but Cappy is popping Xanax so you know it's a gut twister for sure. Good casting of supporting players, only wish my priest had been written into this story because you would want to say a silent prayer the president isn't THAT stupid..but we know he did have all our goats by the time he left office and so it is here..a Good Christmas Card to the American public who allow the most influential position in America to be compromised by irrefutably illogical attempted gain by access to that office. One would argue Donald Trump should have been a veterinarian. I always thought he was..lol