Andrew McDonnell

A film which cleverly adapts DeLillo's novel into something new, using allegory to examine our lives living with Covid with hilarious effect (the opaque information about the effect of the toxic event on citizens was like that first year of living in lockdown and trying to understand what it all meant). I wonder if a lot of the one star reviews here demonstrate that it's a successful satire - the best satires usually skewer us uncomfortably and this film doesn't play it straight, consistently undermining our complacency as an audience and defamilarizing cinematic tropes. It's play with genre, lampooning the genre spoonfeeding of Hollywood (horror! comedy! disaster movie! family!) and subverting Spielberg 80s tropes made for a very funny and entertaining 2+ hours. Why do we have so much depression in the West? This film might have some of the answers.