In 1964, in the midst of the cold war, Stanley Kubrick warned of the risk that a crazy general might unleash the total apocalypse (‘Red telephone. We flew to Moscow’ or ‘Dr. Strangelove’). Almost sixty years later, Adam McKay, in ‘Don’t look up’, warns us of the same thing but the cause is no longer nuclear war but universal stupidity. Many criticize the broad brush of the script, but what is typical of the cartoon genre is precisely the exaggeration of features… that do exist in reality: when we hear this president of the United States affirm that catastrophe is also an opportunity, do we not remember Pedro Sánchez’s message regarding covid? When we see the sugary frivolity with which he approaches the destruction of the… See More
