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[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 80 points 8 months ago

What a perfect microcosm story for why we're completely screwed by climate collapse. People would complain about how heavy handed the symbolism is if this was in a movie

[-] jayWL@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

I know you're just repeating a common joke, but people would absolutely not complain, in fact they would applaud it as subtle and complex and needing 200 IQ to understand. See all the discourse around "Don't Look Up" which must have been the most heavy handed movie I've seen in a decade, and people praised it to high heavens foe being a "clever metaphor" etc

[-] whogivesashit@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 7 months ago

I feel like it's only possible to come across as heavy handed if the satire is objectively less subtle than reality. In a world where climate science has shown us our future for decades now and people continue to bury their head in the sand, it's really just documentary about what would genuinely happen if a large scale disaster were to occur. I wouldn't say it's a particularly clever metaphor, but I think you can't satirize climate change denial hard enough at this point.

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