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Home » Culture, history and society » Laughing in the face of danger: how Netflix’s Don’t Look Up captures climate complexity

Laughing in the face of danger: how Netflix’s Don’t Look Up captures climate complexity

17 Jan 2022 Laura Hiscott
Taken from the February 2022 issue of Physics World.

Laura Hiscott reviews the film Don’t Look Up, directed by Adam McKay and available now on Netflix

Still from the film Don't Look Up
Wrong reaction In Don’t Look Up TV hosts (played by Cate Blanchett and Tyler Perry) make light of the calamitous situation brought to them by scientists (Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence). (Courtesy: Niko Tavernise/Netflix)
In December last year, we received a letter from the UK’s Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees, saying th

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Laura Hiscott is a freelance science journalist
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