In 2021, many folks paused the COVID-19 doom loop by spending a couple of hours with the drippingly sanctimonious Don’t Look Up. The idea of the film was that terrible catastrophe awaited those who failed to recognize blindingly obvious signals, specifically, the threat of climate change. Smugness aside, Don’t Look Up copies the narrative of oodles of Shakespearean tragedies—Lear, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth—so it’s a verifiably tried and true formula.| johnkroman.substack.com
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