CYNISM COUPLED WITH COSMIC FARCE DOES NOT A SATIRE MAKE
Photo credit: Netflix. There seems to be a lot of rave reviews regarding how wonderful this piece of pretend satire is and I can’t help but wonder why that is, especially when you consider the amount of gloom and doom that saturated the media during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, and how none of all that drama was even replicated here. The failure to exploit the range of political excesses displayed across different camps makes it hard to find reenactments of right-wing, political figures rejecting science, and ignorant celebrities milking political causes for clout, (which this film is mainly about) funny for long. Satires are intelligent but this 2021 film by writer/director, Adam Mckay in my opinion, was just an unoriginal farce greatly inspired by MAGA, America’s right-wing politics during the coronavirus pandemic and the general American middleclass society’s obsession with capitalism. Only this time, it pitches as a replacement, the gloomy story of a scie...