Best Quotes from HBO's Chernobyl

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[–]dingoatemytaco 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

How appropriate that a US President - compromised by $400 million in donations from Russian businessmen (who paid his Deutsche Bank debts), among other corrupt practices, is also known for false or misleading claims totaling 30,573 over 4 years. Those lies continue with the right-wing media, to keep their voters from knowing the facts about what the GOP has done for 4 decades to make the lives of the 99% much much worse. HBO's Chernobyl was partially a response to this kind of governing with lies, in Russia and the US. 'Don't look up' lampoons this problem.

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A number of those "fact checks" turned out to be inaccurate. I'd suggest getting better news sources than WaPo.

Don't look up

I thought that was a great watch. Imo, you can look at an even deeper meaning in that they couldn't ever really do anything about the asteroid anyways, and Leo's character descended into useless debauchery that served nothing, only to realize his mistake at the end, eating a last supper with his wife and her new bf.

[–]dingoatemytaco 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We have different interpretations of the movie. The nukes sent to push the asteroid off course were cancelled mid-air by Mark Rylance (Musk/Bezos/Page/Zuckerberg &c), who started the 'don't look up' campaign, failing to create smaller asteroids, and then rescuing only a few wealthy people. Leo et al knew very well that everyone was fucked after Rylance cancelled the nukes. Nothing mattered after that. There are obvious parallels with the COVID politics (whereas it should instead be a medical science problem) and climate change politics (which is also a science problem, and shouldn't be politicized and allowed to continue).