Don't look up
Part I
Nominated for 4 Oscars
Kate Dibiasky [played by Jeniffer Lawrence], a doctorate candidate who works at a credible astronomical research center, discovers a new comet. She mentions her discovery to her superior, Dr.Randell Mindy [played by Leonardo DiCaprio] immediately and he approved the existence of the new comet. It doesn’t take a long time until Randell does the math about the comet’s speed and direction and to everyone’s surprise; he figures out that the comet is headed toward the Earth. The comet is named after Dibiasky and they soon let NASA know about their discovery.
If you think this was the strange part of the story, you are wrong and you need to hear the rest of it. They make an appointment with Madam President [played by Meryll Strip] after a long wait in the White House and she finally gives them 20 minutes. When Randell and Dibiasky tell the president that the comet will hit the Earth in 6 months and it will cause a Tsunami that will put an end to all lives on the planet, she asks: “how accurate is this?”. the response she gets is 99/6%. What she and her chief of staff [played by Jonah Hill] are concerned about at this point is not the apocalypse coming along and the power they possess to stop it by using Nukes. The president is in the middle of a struggle with the press and public due to her husband’s recently revealed scandal.
The impression we get from this scene is that the president can not deal with the comet at this time because this will affect her campaign. In simple words, politics come before saving man from an upcoming extinction. After the president’s team approve the news about the apocalypse to be, she calls Randell and Dibiasky to her office again and tells them that she intends to arrange a huge space mission using a space shuttle that carries Nukes to the comet to destroy it before it can put the Earth and its people in any danger. They need an astronomer who sacrifices his life on a suicide mission to fly the shuttle to the comet. Ron [played by Benedict Drask] volunteers to do so.
On the day of the grand mission, when the entire world is watching the live event on TV and the shuttle and the nukes are about to be launched, the president gives a historic speech about her role in saving the planet from an absolutely catastrophic danger.
As the president and her team are leading the launch from the situation room in the White House, Peter Isherwell [played by Mark Rylance] who is a billionaire and CEO of Tech company, walks in the room and wants to have a word with the president. When Madam President walks back to the room, she aborts the mission and tells everyone that she will explain the reason soon.
We have seen Peter Isherwell in other scenes previously as a very Calm and genius CEO who is talking on a stage in front of a large number of reporters and the audience about the new phone device his company has developed and its unique features. Peter is introduced to us throughout the movie as the third richest man on Earth and the main supporter of the presidential campaign. And of course, that’s how he has clearance to be in the situation room with the president and her high-ranking military generals and talk her into aborting the mission that will save the Earth.
To be continued...