....whut. For one thing, this movie is about the people making the policy! Working class ppl generally DON'T GET TO DO THAT. And yeah, you're right, it doesn't fit in a satire anyway. (You're also right that apparently people don't know any more what "satire" means.)
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But but the whole Cate Blanchette character? She was a total elite! Not!Elon Musk is in it! There are also some more regular workers, like the reporters they talk to or the people who beg Kate to tell them what is actually happening (which was really surprisingly moving) or the people at the launch at the end who are like "Fuck this, I'm going to my family" or the skater rats or....
Also, if you pay attention to the visuals, which no one seems to anymore, the styling of the president character is intentionally showing that Republicans and Democrats are interchangeable
I had to admit, I took total joy in Meryl Streep cackling away playing Donald Trump. That was an inspired casting choice and helped make the movie for me. I would not have enjoyed it half as much if it had just been a typical older white guy, lol. I heard some people saying what she did was OTT, but hey, I REMEMBER when everyone thought Trump was fucking DEAD IN THE WATER after "grab 'em by the pussy." I WAS THERE.
Except if you read Brecht's writing on theatre, you will notice that a lot of the things that people are bouncing off are by design. Even the fourth-wall breaking at the beginning is a nod to that. It is explicitly telling you what it's doing.
LOLsob if I ever read Brecht, it was probably twenty....thirty years ago? -- Like Matrix resurrections (which critic also hated, lol) it was EXTREMELY meta and "you are watching a story and we know you know you're watching a story and this is what it's really about" (Resurrections turns out to be more about....Trinity!) and so on. I actually liked it a lot better and thought it was less condescending than The Big Short, the one all the critics drooled over. I think what made a lot of critics mad was they were expecting these movies to mock themselves for some reason, and they really didn't. The heart of Resurrections is the Neo/Trinity love story, and the heart of this movie was that scene at the end where they all come together and celebrate their connection even tho it's about to end (a la On the Beach).
Anyway the whole point is to provoke a conversation and the conversation is about the solutions that were not depicted in the film.
I think it goes a bit further than that -- like, surprise, the film is applicable to covid! To climate change! To this or that! But like you said, it's really about our response to disaster, and our ability to blind ourselves and pretend that what's going on is normal, and not only normal, but unquestionable. Just how things are. (Kind of like how mid-life crisis hits some people with the realization they're going to die, but then they buy a sports car, lol.) Change, actual real change, is really hard and takes a lot of time and effort and is not immediately rewarding. -- And the other BIG POINT is, since the Industrial Revolution happened, the control of industry has not been in the hands of the workers or governments. (Yeah, we have the FDA and other regulatory agencies, but they're recent, and hobbled.) Trump ACTUALLY SAID that covid would wash away, that it would all be over, that it would be gone, that all we had to do was wait. Unlike what a lot of liberals think, that kind of response is not concretely limited to covid or Trump (otherwise Trump would never have appealed to anyone). It's about denial/denialism. Which is a human thing, not just a liberal/conservative or Trump thing. They called the movie DON'T look up.
....re your last para I am sadly ignorant of a lot of those schools of thought, but it's A SATIRE! A SATIRE. Those typically do not produce SOLUTIONS. I think people got used to thinking of John Stewart as satire or something (Stephen Colbert was the satire, but then even that got softer). Satire is not "talking about real life issues, but in a funny way." Alternately, everyone's brain got fried by four fucking years of Trumpty going, "It was a joke! I didn't mean it. But I did mean it. I don't joke. But I do joke! But I don't mean it. But I mean it."
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Date: 2022-01-03 05:53 pm (UTC)....whut. For one thing, this movie is about the people making the policy! Working class ppl generally DON'T GET TO DO THAT. And yeah, you're right, it doesn't fit in a satire anyway. (You're also right that apparently people don't know any more what "satire" means.)
Working class portrayed negativity
But but the whole Cate Blanchette character? She was a total elite! Not!Elon Musk is in it! There are also some more regular workers, like the reporters they talk to or the people who beg Kate to tell them what is actually happening (which was really surprisingly moving) or the people at the launch at the end who are like "Fuck this, I'm going to my family" or the skater rats or....
Also, if you pay attention to the visuals, which no one seems to anymore, the styling of the president character is intentionally showing that Republicans and Democrats are interchangeable
I had to admit, I took total joy in Meryl Streep cackling away playing Donald Trump. That was an inspired casting choice and helped make the movie for me. I would not have enjoyed it half as much if it had just been a typical older white guy, lol. I heard some people saying what she did was OTT, but hey, I REMEMBER when everyone thought Trump was fucking DEAD IN THE WATER after "grab 'em by the pussy." I WAS THERE.
Except if you read Brecht's writing on theatre, you will notice that a lot of the things that people are bouncing off are by design. Even the fourth-wall breaking at the beginning is a nod to that. It is explicitly telling you what it's doing.
LOLsob if I ever read Brecht, it was probably twenty....thirty years ago? -- Like Matrix resurrections (which critic also hated, lol) it was EXTREMELY meta and "you are watching a story and we know you know you're watching a story and this is what it's really about" (Resurrections turns out to be more about....Trinity!) and so on. I actually liked it a lot better and thought it was less condescending than The Big Short, the one all the critics drooled over. I think what made a lot of critics mad was they were expecting these movies to mock themselves for some reason, and they really didn't. The heart of Resurrections is the Neo/Trinity love story, and the heart of this movie was that scene at the end where they all come together and celebrate their connection even tho it's about to end (a la On the Beach).
Anyway the whole point is to provoke a conversation and the conversation is about the solutions that were not depicted in the film.
I think it goes a bit further than that -- like, surprise, the film is applicable to covid! To climate change! To this or that! But like you said, it's really about our response to disaster, and our ability to blind ourselves and pretend that what's going on is normal, and not only normal, but unquestionable. Just how things are. (Kind of like how mid-life crisis hits some people with the realization they're going to die, but then they buy a sports car, lol.) Change, actual real change, is really hard and takes a lot of time and effort and is not immediately rewarding. -- And the other BIG POINT is, since the Industrial Revolution happened, the control of industry has not been in the hands of the workers or governments. (Yeah, we have the FDA and other regulatory agencies, but they're recent, and hobbled.) Trump ACTUALLY SAID that covid would wash away, that it would all be over, that it would be gone, that all we had to do was wait. Unlike what a lot of liberals think, that kind of response is not concretely limited to covid or Trump (otherwise Trump would never have appealed to anyone). It's about denial/denialism. Which is a human thing, not just a liberal/conservative or Trump thing. They called the movie DON'T look up.
....re your last para I am sadly ignorant of a lot of those schools of thought, but it's A SATIRE! A SATIRE. Those typically do not produce SOLUTIONS. I think people got used to thinking of John Stewart as satire or something (Stephen Colbert was the satire, but then even that got softer). Satire is not "talking about real life issues, but in a funny way." Alternately, everyone's brain got fried by four fucking years of Trumpty going, "It was a joke! I didn't mean it. But I did mean it. I don't joke. But I do joke! But I don't mean it. But I mean it."