Article 5TFP4 ‘It parodies our inaction’: Don’t Look Up, an allegory of the climate crisis, lauded by activists

‘It parodies our inaction’: Don’t Look Up, an allegory of the climate crisis, lauded by activists

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Donna Lu
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Adam McKay's end-of-the-world film is a powerful' depiction of society's response to scientific warnings, campaigners say

Don't Look Up, the latest celluloid offering from the writer-director Adam McKay, has become Netflix's top film globally despite dividing critics and viewers.

The film, a satire in which two scientists played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence attempt to warn an indifferent world about a comet that threatens to destroy the planet, is an intentional allegory of the climate crisis.

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