The scariest thing about Don’t Look Up is that as absurd as it is, it barely exaggerates. Much of our political elite are just as greedy and foolish, our media just as vapid, and our response to impending disaster exactly as mind-bogglingly irrational as in the movie.
I've avoided all the discourse for this movie until now, because I just watched it. Is it part of the satire that Adam McKay thinks no other country would try to do anything about this world ending scenario? All China did was text the president? Is that part of the joke or is Adam McKay that far up his own ass? I'm genuinely asking.
It's implied that the US sabotages other efforts to stop the comet. The movie is focused on satirizing the US specifically.
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There's one point where Russia and China send a missile or something to divert the comet, and the US blow it up because Bash wants to extract minerals from it.
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Because that's how US news would report it.
It was pretty strongly implied that it was sabotage, at least from how I interpreted it.
China and Russia (and I think India) do attempt a joint mission to stop the comet after the US decides not to, and it’s heavily implied that the US sabotages their launch.
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Actually they do and afair the Elon Musk parody actively lobbies for the president to fuck them over and one of the breaks in the main character's brains is when the Russian/Chinese/Indian program to stop the asteroid is shut down?
Blown up, not shut down.
Yeah now that you say.
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