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Flat White

In search of monsters

3 March 2022

12:00 PM

3 March 2022

12:00 PM

In the final scene of Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up, DiCaprio’s Dr. Randall Mindy – an astronomer who had attempted for months to convince an incompetent blob of federal agencies that an enormous Mount Everest sized asteroid was headed for Earth – remarks solemnly and sincerely that, ‘We had everything, didn’t we?’ moments before humankind is blown into extinction.

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