Review of "Don't Look Up"

Everyone is reviewing this and taking positions on it - does it help the climate change movement or not?

Well, it's clever and funny, though often too painful to watch. The Trumpesque White House, the Bezos-like billionaire with his insane plan to mine the comet for resources (and escape ship for when this fails), the trivial talk shows where the scientists try to reach the public...it's all much too true to be enjoyable. It also satirizes pop-star climate activists...Ariana Grande is really great in that role, and perhaps the movement as a whole. And scientists who find it hard to communicate, and liberal media who will speak truth to power if it works for their click-throughs...

I didn't need a happy ending, but I didn't find anything to take from it except despair. I wasn't comforted by the stoical and even religious way that the main characters end up facing the impending destruction of the planet. I'm also a bit miffed that whenever Hollywod tries to dramatize climate change, it has to dramatize it...making the disaster into a sudden catastrophic event where we all go together when we go, rather that a boiling-the-frog process that will eventually kill everyone, but will kill poor and brown people first. It's much harder to represent the latter, and the fact that Hollywood doesn't try makes it harder to get that across.

Watched on Netflix.