"Don't Look Up" just proves that Karl Marx had it right about U.S. capitalism after all. He predicted, “The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.” Capitalists love to create speculative bubbles, one after another, where the only losers are the last ones in. Dogecoin, Bitcoin, Game Stop, NINJA mortgage loans that purchase inflated houses and of course there's Anti- Vaxers betting that everyone else is wrong. And so the wheel spins round and round as our sweet speculative economy heralds the noisy end for a declining civilization.
De Caprio's latest film "Don't Look Up" is a huge satire of our entire capitalist upper crust as seen thru thru the prism of eminent, pending disaster. Much like the predictions of the astrological consultant Nostradamus, (famous for his book Les Propheties, published in 1555 ) two astrophysicists in Michigan uncover a huge meteor that's about to hit planet earth and no one cares. At least not until they can look up and see it coming. These Michigan guys are real astrophysicist and they have scientific proof for their claims but that's besides the point.
Earth's rescue hopes are dashed by our need to create yet one more speculative bubble; "How much gold is there in that there meteor?" A venal, much adulated Capitalist clown is willing to bet your life that there's plenty. He browbeats an even more venal US President into calling off a rescue attempt in order to feed a speculative urge with all the 1% ers walking off a cliff like sheep behind him.
You've got Hollywood's very best ensemble cast leading this cast with terrific cameo performances of every box office attraction known to man. Better entertainment simply can not be found.
Its a hell of a plot devices - the world ending. And it would be one terrific parody but for the fact that its way too real to life. We actually live our lives with climate change occurring at an accelerating pace - and we've manage to blow off the threat of doom 'cause we need to. Like a bunch of Republican's who need to deny Biden won or that there was a coupe attempt on Jan 6th - we just can't handle the truth. Lets hope we make out better than the folks in the film.
