That’s totally fair. I enjoyed it but found it frustrating at times for how much the ridiculous aspects were still pretty clearly paralleled by real world events.
I mentioned this in another comment but the script was originally written before the pandemic. It was meant to be an outrageous parody of humanity’s response to a crisis, as a metaphor for climate change.
Then Covid happened and the reality of the response was even more ridiculous than McCay’s script. So he had to make it even more crazy. How do you parody something that’s already a parody of itself?
McCay described the movie as a “primal scream” about his frustration with inaction on climate change. I think that’s an apt description, it’s not subtle and doesn’t really have much to add to the conversation other than venting pent up frustration. But that’s not a necessarily a bad thing, sometimes you need to vent.
That’s totally fair. I enjoyed it but found it frustrating at times for how much the ridiculous aspects were still pretty clearly paralleled by real world events.
I mentioned this in another comment but the script was originally written before the pandemic. It was meant to be an outrageous parody of humanity’s response to a crisis, as a metaphor for climate change.
Then Covid happened and the reality of the response was even more ridiculous than McCay’s script. So he had to make it even more crazy. How do you parody something that’s already a parody of itself?
McCay described the movie as a “primal scream” about his frustration with inaction on climate change. I think that’s an apt description, it’s not subtle and doesn’t really have much to add to the conversation other than venting pent up frustration. But that’s not a necessarily a bad thing, sometimes you need to vent.