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Sometimes a movie comes along that frightfully, hilariously, and hauntingly serves as a clear mirror of our time in human existence. Don't Look Up uses a comet that is on a trajectory to smash into earth and destroy all life, as a metaphor to showcase our the absurdities that keep the American population from focusing on the reality of the world around us. Leonardo Di Caprio and Jennifer Lawrence play two scientists who discover the comet and face a series maddening obstacles in their effort to get everyone to understand the threat to humanity and do something about it. It’s all too familiar. The celebrity president and her indolent, idiotic, power hungry son; the owner of a cell phone company who has figured out how to manipulate human feelings through his devices, and the morning show anchors who simply cannot fathom the concept of being serious. All of these people convince billions to ignore the comet that is ready to vaporize them. Though I think this film will never resonate with the Marvel audiences of today, leaving a smaller, more critical thinking fan base, if it gets the attention is deserves, it could either serve as a useful warning like Dr. Strangelove did in the 60s, or a tragically prophetic story of our collective demise.