*Don’t Look Up*

You won’t find many accurate reviews of this one, in part because it is so brutal about media, not to mention American politics.  The core message, however, is that everything is downstream of culture.  And that we are incapable of taking our own decline seriously.  Think of it as an update of Mike Judge’s Idiocracy.  And Trump and Hillary blend into one character, played by Meryl Streep.

At 2.5 hours, the movie is overly long but about 2/3 of it hits the target head on.  These days it is rare to see a Hollywood movie of actual social import and insight.  Science/politics is but one of the significant themes, another is Bruno M.’s claim that America has become a “virtual society.”

The ending also shows the film has the courage of its convictions.

Elsewhere, it is hard to know what to make of the utterly failed Bergman Island.  Under what theory of the world does this cinematic outing make any sense whatsoever?  Perhaps it is best interpreted as a self-referential punishment for those who, circa 2021, still think they ought to be watching movies titled Bergman Island.  In that regard it succeeds beautifully.