A scathing, sharp, and hilarious 2020 yearbook focused primarily on the COIVD-19 pandemic and US politics in mockumentary format. As funny as he is lucid, his darts are aimed at many of the political and social miseries that marked an signify the pandemic and that the inhabitants of other countries have also suffered and still do. With a quick humor to watch and listen with great attention.
Death to 2020 is a frankly very funny yearbook, co-produced by Charlie Brooker (the producer of Black Mirror) about what happened in the year that is ending, which adopts the mockumentary format, which includes real news images alternated with testimonies and reports fictional characters (a history scholar, a journalist, a presidential spokeswoman, Queen Elizabeth II (😄), two "common" citizens, an influencer, among others), added to the story of a voice-over (Laurence Fishburn), and that it is focused basically (but not exclusively) on the coronavirus pandemic and the US presidential campaign, with sharp darts against Trump, Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, among others.
The film exhibits scathing, ironic, and fast-paced British humor in the Anglo-Saxon line of political satire (and the political line) of Saturday Night Live, the Monty Pythons, Borat and Michael Moore and takes a look at various political miseries. , media and fake news that devastated the US and the world along with the coronavirus. There are a lot of really good jokes. Better not to overly describe the "characters" in this mockumentary, but I'd say among its highest points is Hugh Grant's Professor of History and the "average person or citizen" Gemma (Diane Morgan). However, some of the interviewees maintain a "serious" attitude and speech when necessary. In the manner of Peter Capusotto's Argentine character Miki Vainilla, the satire of fascist and supremacist messengers is carefully framed. Although it is mainly focused on the impact of Covid-19 and events that occurred in the US, much of the analysis (which includes the polarization of public opinion, denials, among many others) is applicable anywhere in the West . A very funny and lucid film to watch with very attentive senses due to the sharpness and speed of its observations and jokes (which forced me to rewind some). And do not stop paying attention to the captions that present the interviewees.
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Reply by Káit Ní Fhiannaidhe
on December 29, 2020 at 4:15 PM
I did enjoy this . Charlie Brooker, as well as being a clever writer, manages to attract some quality actors for this piece. Tracey Ullman as the Queen was beautifully understated.