cortical reflection

Title Your Name Subject and Section Professor’s Name Date The latest films filmmakers bring to the table to freshen up societal issues in the cinema industry now have the depth to dissect society's system and onto new challenges creatively. The last two movie examples were "Don't Look Up," shown in 2021, and "Everything Everywhere All at Once," released earlier this year, and each of them imparted a different message. The visual examination of the media on climate change is investigated with the former, while in the latter, the author uncovers the evaluation of these topics: migration, surveillance, protests, protest cultures, human rights, and labor struggles; thus, she points to a broader picture. The approaching comet colliding with the Earth in "Don't Look Up" becomes a terrifying analogy of the world's crisis and lack of attention regarding climate change. This situation is depicted by Dr. Randall Mindy, a professor, and a graduate student, Kate Dibiasky, who uncovered the comet's trajectory in sync with Earth's orbit, with a possible disastrous and possibly apocalyptic result for Earth. While the experts informed the government, specifically in the White House, about their discovery, they were primarily disappointed by the President and his aides, who did not bother paying them heed. Trying to inform the public solely through television rather than combining it with other media channels is ineffective, resulting in Kate's unusual way of doing the trick online (Messick et al., 2021). This demonstrates that the critical societal structure prefers to prioritize issues that will catch the media's attention rather than exposing a significant issue that might annihilate humanity—just because the latter is not worthy of being announced based on the cabinet members’ perception. While Don’t Look Up mainly distinguishes climate change issues, Everything Everywhere Everywhere All at Once demonstrates an Asian woman, Evelyn, who grappled to survive as an immigrant in a first-world foreign country. Unlike others who made their names in China, Evelyn's decision to wed and come to change her life and drive past through a pos...