Séamas O'Reilly: Don't Look Up's environmental message is ringing less hollow nowadays

"It’s a coward’s bluff to say I shouldn’t care about recycling just because Taylor Swift takes a private plane from her bedroom to her kitchen if she wants a glass of water every night"

Don't Look Up: less condescending nowadays, reckons Séamas O'Reilly.

Do you remember Don’t Look Up? It only came out at the tail end of 2021, and was even nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars the following spring. 

Despite this, it seems strangely memory-holed, a film about the greatest issue of our age, which managed to be broadly successful and — to some extent, at least — critically acclaimed, without anyone holding it in their brains for much longer than a few hours afterward.