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There’s a great scene where Female Scientist is talking to some rioters. It depicts elites as simultaneously incompetent and omnicompetent. Maybe not literally, but at least he’s genre-savvy. “THE COMET IS A MARXIST LIE!” says the guy on the Facebook stand-in. But it reserves its harshest barbs for anti-establishment wackos, who are constantly played for laughs. It depicts a monstrous world where the establishment is conspiring to keep the truth from you in every possible way. Unfortunately, Don’t Look Up can’t stop contradicting itself. Everyone has a touching moment of togetherness before the comet strikes and kills them all - except the elites, who escaped on a starship designed by Tech CEO! After many years, they reach another habitable planet, but get eaten by alien dinosaurs immediately after landing. Male Scientist has a redemption arc, admits that trying to work within the system was wrong, and reconciles with various people he needs reconciling with. Tech CEO tries his comet disassembly plan, but it fails, leaving Earth officially doomed. Hollywood celebrities say dumb things about how we “need to consider both sides” and “not let the comet divide us”. Conspiracy theorists write deranged blog posts saying there is no comet, and it’s all a Marxist plot. The President hits on a new slogan, “Don’t Look Up!”, which pacifies her supporters and quells resistance. The comet becomes visible in the night sky. She drops out of grad school and ends up in a two-bit town, bagging groceries. Her words cause riots, and the government responds by destroying her platform and credibility. Female Scientist becomes an anti-comet-retrieval crusader.
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In order to keep his job and access, he stars in TV commercials where he reassures everyone that Tech CEO’s plan is great and they should feel safe. Male Scientist decides to work within the system and try to change things from the inside, but this process gradually corrupts him. The Scientists discuss this among themselves and decide that Tech CEO’s plan won’t work.
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Rather than offend a campaign donor, the President cancels the comet deflection mission. Some “Nobel Prize winning scientists” who work for him agree it’ll go great. He wants to use his own unproven technology to surgically disassemble and retrieve the comet.
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Tech CEO says the comet’s full of the rare earth elements he needs to make cell phones, and demands the President call off the comet deflection mission. Now we are introduced to Tech CEO, the “third richest man on Earth” and the President’s biggest donor. All the Scientists get behind her and calculate “an 81% chance of success”. She pivots, endorses the comet’s existence, fires Asian Scientist as her “fall guy”, and announces an extravagant and PR-filled comet deflection mission. Then the President is caught in a scandal suddenly distracting the public seems like a good idea.
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In response, the President has Asian Scientist (who is head of NASA) announce there’s nothing to worry about, and the Times drops their story and accuses the scientists of making them look bad. Still in desperation, they go to the New York Times and get an article about the comet. But all the subsequent press is about how sexy Male Scientist is and how shrill Female Scientist sounds. In desperation, Male Scientist and Female Scientist finagle their way onto a big TV show. (the Earth, at this point, has five months and however many days left) The President says scientists are always doomsaying, if people get too panicked she’ll lose the midterm election, and she’ll get around to dealing with this later. They contact the relevant authorities, Black Scientist and Asian Scientist, and go to meet the President (who, despite being a woman, is Donald Trump). I’m going to be less virtuous and use it as a springboard to talk about politics.īut first, the plot in a nutshell: Male Scientist and Female Scientist discover a comet will hit Earth in six months.
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Don’t Look Up is primarily a movie about existential risk, and many great people have already reviewed it as such.