{"id":7919029,"date":"2022-01-03T10:11:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T15:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/HiMY.ca\/2022\/01\/03\/with-dont-look-up-we-have-a\/"},"modified":"2022-01-03T10:11:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T15:11:19","slug":"with-dont-look-up-we-have-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/2022\/01\/03\/with-dont-look-up-we-have-a\/","title":{"rendered":"With Don\u2019t Look Up we have a&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;With <i>Don\u2019t Look Up<\/i> we have a bunch of talented, committed, passionate people clearly trying to make a difference. There\u2019s a hugely successful writer and director in McKay. There are global superstars like Lawrence, di Caprio, Grande and Meryl goddamn <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meryl_Streep\">Streep<\/a>! They\u2019re all doing the most impactful thing that they <b><i>can<\/i><\/b> do, which is creating a piece of art to get a message across in the face of a massive global emergency: in this case, the global non-effort being made about the very real climate crisis.<br>\n<P><br>\n&#8220;And yet, as Bina\u2019s song shows, even they are aware that their effort and talent is almost certainly futile. It doesn\u2019t matter how powerful a song you write \u2014 or film you create \u2014 to send a message of awareness. And that\u2019s because the things that stand in the way of action about climate change are connected with power \u2013 both political and economic \u2013 where leaders and institutions are immune to attacks from pop music and Netflix. Whether Riley Bina is singing a power ballad or Adam McKay is making a movie, the catastrophe is still coming, its pace entirely unslowed.<br>\n<P><br>\n&#8220;And that, friends, is the most depressing thing about <i>Don\u2019t Look Up<\/i>: that even it knows how little it can actually hope to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><cite>https:\/\/independentaustralia.net\/life\/art-display\/the-most-depressing-thing-about-dont-look-up-isnt-what-you-think,15891#<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;With Don\u2019t Look Up we have a bunch of talented, committed, passionate people clearly trying to make a difference. There\u2019s a hugely successful writer and director in McKay. There are global superstars like Lawrence, di Caprio, Grande and Meryl goddamn Streep! They\u2019re all doing the most impactful thing that they can do, which is creating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[490],"views":275,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7919029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7919029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7919029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7919030,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7919029\/revisions\/7919030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7919029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7919029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7919029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}