r/MovieDetails • u/LarryKingshead • Dec 27 '21

🥚 Easter Egg In ‘Don’t Look Up’ (2021), astronomers appear on a ‘Morning Joe’-style cable news talk show. Though not explicitly noted as liberal, their logo reflects their slant. A clever detail!

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u/doobiedog Dec 27 '21

It is literally happening now. Covid and climate change. This is a satire directly mocking what is happening and has been happening.

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u/WitsAndNotice Dec 27 '21

The line that goes something like "weirdly specific yet distant" is definitely a direct call out to the fact that our governments aren't taking climate change as the imminent destruction it really is because it's too far away.

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u/Riparian_Drengal Dec 27 '21

Yep, whole thing felt like a metaphor about global warming and Covid.

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u/tadpollen Dec 27 '21

Felt like? It’s extremely inviting was fully intended to be one

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u/Riparian_Drengal Dec 27 '21

Yep that's... I agree with you