Don't Look Up

In December 2021, I watched Don't Look Up at Human Trust Yurakucho for the first time. The black comedy film was released in 2021. Many prominent actors appear in it.

It tells a story that a universal professor and his graduate student, who discover a comet that will crash into the earth, struggle to communicate the fact to the public through the American present and the mass media.

The personality of the president and her son who is the White House chief of staff was not realistic so much that I quickly felt that it was a shallow comedy, so I enjoyed watching it, especially the scenes to satirize the modern society, however, I could not laugh at the scene toward the ending in which the professor played by Leonardo DiCaprio has dinner with his families and friends because it was quite realistic and unnecessarily long. I would have thought of it as amusing after viewing it if the scene had been simpler. Anyway, I was disappointed at it. If the dinner scene is realistic, the president's character should be too. The shallow president would have been okay if she had been a Japanese prime minister because it has less power than the kingmakers in Japan and far less influence on the world than the president of the United States. First of all, the woman is so shallow that she actually cannot become even a congressperson. Then I believe that the former American presidents Mr. Bush and Mr. Trump have a bad reputation kind of due to a smear campaign through the mass media. I felt like that maybe because I am conservative. How fool the two anchor persons was appropriate because anchor persons only need to be seemingly intelligent, popular in public and convenient for the television stations. 

Meryl Streep gave a wonderful performance aside from if the role is good or bad. Although Leonardo DiCaprio had been awesome when he was young, yet he acted well as the middle-aged professor who does not look cool and has a beard. When Timothee Chalamet showed up in the middle, I felt the cast to be really gorgeous but at the same time I realized that a young handsome man did not before that, so I could accept his appearance in it, though the cast fees must have been enormous.

The flick is generally popular as well as The Last Duel, so I have thought that I am out of touch with the times.