Comment on ‘It affects everything’: why is Hollywood so scared to tackle the climate crisis?
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 month agoDon’t Look Up was meant to be about climate change. But its depiction of tribalism and news media psyops was so good that everyone assumed it was about COVID, which had happened after the movie wrapped filming but before it released. If it had come out a couple years earlier the message would have been clearer, but then people also probably wouldn’t have resonated with it as much because most people don’t care as much about climate change as they did about the pandemic one way or the other at that key time.
ImpressiveEssay@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Wait… People don’t realise that don’t look yo is obviously about climate change!?
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Keep in mind it came out right around the same time that the first COVID vaccines were becoming widely available and the antivaxxer movement was kicking into maximum wackadoo mode.
Less than a month after DLU came out was when antivaxxer assholes from all over Canada drove to Ottawa to terrorize the citizens of the city in order to try and strongarm the federal government into getting rid of any vaccine and masking mandates for travel.
ImpressiveEssay@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, of course science denial is science denial. There is going to be major thematic links…
But it’s so blatantly obviously climate is the primary focus there.