Review of Don't Look Up (2021) by Filmanwalt — 02 Jan 2022
Absurd, bizarre and still a mixture of a lot of truth paired with sometimes hellish sarcasm (also cynical?). If you watch the film you notice the parallels to the present day more and more from minute to minute (especially to the climate crisis, but in some ways the film also fits the pandemic) and therefore a funny film also creates other feelings such as sadness or anger to wake up.
It is about an imminent end of the world, which is accepted with seeing eyes due to lower motives. In addition, there are various real-time problems, as well as the power of social media, the falling apart of truths, facts are no longer evidence, etc.
The film shows the United States in particular the past few years, which culminated in a catastrophic presidency. The connection to the real world works extremely well for me and was not too artificial for me, rather it blended in well with the scenery.
Only occasionally were the stylistic devices of popping pictures or video overlays cut too much and too quickly for me.
Also, strange camera settings were chosen over and over again, which were not always sensible for me or whose message I probably did not understand.
Apart from that, the cast was brutal and was able to convince in many cases: DiCaprio works perfectly for me, Cate Blanchett was one of the best, Meryl Streep and Jonah Hill were "amusing" most of the time (you always had a bit of "anger") "in my stomach), Chris Evans was absolutely world-class ..... amazing .... I only liked Jennifer Lawrence partially, it was sometimes too much for me because I couldn't believe her. The bash dude really pissed me off (he should too), but it wasn’t fun at all, it was just annoying. Timothee Chalamet could have been cut away and clearly shortened at this point.
Overall, the film was shot strangely, but in a certain way very cleverly written and put together, unfortunately a bit too long. I've switched off briefly one or the other time, but in the end it's pretty consistent.
7/10 drones.
This review of Don't Look Up (2021) was written by Filmanwalt on 02 January 2022.
Don't Look Up has generally received positive reviews.
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