2022/01/07

Writer Ingrid Burrington Situates “Don’t Look Up” in the Long Political History of Asteroid Movies

“Apocalypse is a great way to flatten politics and power dynamics in the name of an overarching story of ‘humanity.’ It’s never how disaster unfolds in real life, where the already suffering face disproportionate harm and capitalists find some angle through which to profit.”
– Writer Ingrid Burrington, revisiting the “long political history of asteroid movies” in the wake of Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up (which Burrington describes as “laser-focused on the systemic fuckups and abuses of power manipulating the planetary disaster”)
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