It’s hard to imagine a more lucid depiction of reality or unreality (whatever the hell we’re supposed to call it) in the 21st century. This film has got everything going on. Upon 1st viewing I hereby pledge to see it again and again. Up? Down? I’ll look wherever the hell you want me to Mr. McKay. Nuff said E.F.
Its on Netflix
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I was intrigued by the movie like you and many others. I found a bit of irony that exists outside its frame. It is a movie, after all, a form of media.
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Because It is pure fiction. Is that the irony you see? I DO find that point ironic actually lol.
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sorry if this is a bit much, but it might explain better than I.
Click to access PlatonicIronygriswold.pdf
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So, the fundamental problem is that Plato’s dialogues are not real life, but rather “representations” of real-life conversations. JUST like movies. Aha, I see the connection! The writer invents the conversations, and therefore we can’t say they are real life, factual. Right?
Now why did Plato write dialogues? His intent, according to the author, is for the dialogues to “mirror
the reader’s dispositions, but in such a way, it seems to me, as to
encourage reflection on and improvement of those dispositions.” It’s the same reason filmmakers like Adam McKay write satire, to be a mirror to humanity. Sometimes a black mirror.
Plato’s dialogues are all modeled in the spirit of Socrates’ teachings that truth is not to be instructed, but to be REALIZED through interaction. Socrates who said, “”the highest point of my art is the power to prove by every test whether the offspring of a young man’s thought is a false phantom or an instinct with life and truth.” (Theaetetus)
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I was surprised by Don’t Look Up. I tend to resist McKay’s movies to a point. But at our press screening I found myself laughing a lot. Watched it again during Christmas and had the same positive reaction.
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It’s So funny! I’m not even a huge fan of Jonah Hill and I laugh at all of his lines here. Mark Rylance also. How about the Acting!
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Brief and to the point. I like it. This one’s definitely next on my to-watch list.
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I really liked this movie!
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Who was your favorite character/actor?
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I actually really enjoyed Jennifer’s and Leo’s characters. Such a pure intent to try to warn the world about the comet – and they were both so likeable and quirky. I also really enjoyed the unlikely bond she had with Timothy’s character. It was so cute.
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JLaw cracks me up! “You SHould stay up, every night Crying!!”😭
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LOL
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