In Defense of Smug Cinema
Plus: Some deep dives into Israel’s most powerful Arab politician
by Yair Rosenberg
Jan 24, 2022
3 minutes
Lately, we’ve spent a lot of time talking about anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories that lead real people to harm our shared society. For a change, let’s move on to conspiracy theories that lead fictional people to harm our shared society. is a political satire from director/writer Adam McKay about what happens when a corrupt and obscurantist U.S. government discovers that a comet is hurtling toward the Earth. Presented by the filmmakers as an allegory for climate change, the movie depicts the tortured ways in which society avoids reckoning with an impending catastrophe.
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