Other Film Nomination: “Don’t Look Up”

For my film festival assignment, I nominated the iconic movie “The Lorax”. However, I was debating for about a week between “The Lorax” and another movie that was recently released on Netflix. Many of you probably know what movie I’m talking about. I’ll give you a hint- it stars some of the most famous actors and actresses such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Jonah Hill, Timothee Chalamet and so much more. I’m going to be honest, as soon as I heard Ariana Grande was in the movie, I knew I had to watch it because I am a big fan of hers. By the way, this movie is called “Don’t Look Up”. So, this movie has to be amazing right? It has the most famous celebrities in it which was the main reason why I wanted to watch it. However, after watching the movie, I quickly realized that this movie had a much deeper message it was trying to portray. Besides the humour and metaphors all throughout the movie, it tries to raise awareness of the global issue of climate change. In the film, a comet is heading towards Earth that will destroy the planet and kill humanity. The two scientists played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence are aware of this comet and try to get the public to believe them and politicians to act. They know the science is right and that it will 100% happen but no one seems to care or see it as an issue. Hence why the movie is called “Don’t Look Up”. The politicians try to diffuse the situation and tell the public this information is false. This relates to real life. Scientists know the facts about climate change, how severe it is, and how it is increasing at a drastic rate over the years. They are aware of its negative effects and try to raise awareness to the public to act, but no one ever sees it as a serious issue. It is interesting why people don’t believe the science in today’s society- science is political. There is a song from the film called “Just Look Up” sung by Ariana Grande and Kid Cudi which is about trying to tell the public to just look up and believe the scientists. The comet is right in front of their eyes if they just look up. This movie was a great way to raise awareness of the scary urgency of climate change. It was a smart move to use a lot of famous celebrities in the film to attract audiences to watch it and become inspired. Hopefully, people understood the message it was trying to display and have a deeper understanding of climate change and act

Watch the Don’t Look Up trailer here!