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corink420 t1_j7pap9k wrote

Reply to comment by pk10534 in [OC] Red Notice is the most popular Netflix movie of all time (based on hours watched) by giteam

I think the message they were going for got across in a very blatant but disturbing way. people in power are greedy and will only work for themselves while belittling those who aren’t, and that the advent of social media causes a mob mentality to believe and follow whatever is trending, and behave naively as if the influencers are more credible than somebody who knows and is certified in what they’re talking about. I think the movie did a good job at showing how our modern society would react if something like an extinction level event is revealed, and hopefully world leaders would act like world leaders about it and not like how the president/people in power in the movie reacted

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pk10534 t1_j7pbmr1 wrote

In a sense I agree with you, I guess I just feel like the satire was kind of blunted or damaged by how blatant it was, because it almost felt like it was explaining the joke a little too thoroughly at times.

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bight99 t1_j7q4gv8 wrote

Maybe it’s just my rose colored glasses liking Leo movies but I kinda thought that’s what the point was. Scientists have been shouting climate change from the rooftops for DECADES now - it’s an extremely obvious thing and we already know how it’s going to affect us. But even though it’s so blatant there’s still little change.

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NotoriousPND t1_j7syhjc wrote

I feel this. The very end where he is sitting there talking about how “we really had it all” was pretty ham-fisted.

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