That is a fake headline on that Tok Tok video. About a war in China. There will be no war.
BUT, yeah, the movie didn't land this as well, the book expressed a lot of themes about the frail nature of the world, and people in it. The way they all responded. Refused to take it seriously, based on their own biases, but just in general how society is last 10 years, nothing is serious everything is whatever. The movie tried to highlight this with kids, when the parents said "they are already onto the next episode"
despite seeing a tanker run aground hour or so before. We are all like that, the next show, the next song, the next scandal, the next dating app, or social media post, that was a theme of the movie. And someone like Hawke's character was so complacent (in his politics, in his life, in his marriage) that he just thinks it will be all be ok, because it always has been.
and it's probably a more realistic portrayal than movies where everyone turns into an action hero. People who have never fired a gun are gunning down zombies or whatever, but what would an event actually look like? We kinda saw that with COVID. None of us knew how to respond. I kept doing my thing, didn't slow down at all. Some people retreated to their homes and didn't come out. Some went OD paranoid about weird shyt like hand sanitizer. Some went off the deep end about vaccines. The US government had a pretty muddled response. Didn't know what to say or do.
where was all this racism? Did I miss something?